Weekly Anything Goes Thread - January 15, 2021 Android Dev |
- Weekly Anything Goes Thread - January 15, 2021
- Weekly Questions Thread - January 12, 2021
- PSA: Include the word "privacy" in your background location privacy policy if you're having trouble getting it accepted
- Android 12 will hibernate unused apps
- Annoying Premium Upsell Screens
- Android create a custom Color Picker
- Company told me I will be the only Android dev on the team. Is this bad?
- Google Play Store App Names and Impersonation Policy
- I just published my first blog ever! I break down the suspend function of Kotlin Coroutines. Feedback please!
- Dagger 2.31 released
- Including a Fragment within AndroidManifest
- Indie developers - How did you create your GDPR compliant privacy policy?
- Looking for other mobile devs to join my discord.
- Introduction to Room Database using Kotlin
- How to increase your app rating with little effort
- What are good examples of open source apps that are available on play store and make extensive use of google assistant actions? thanks
- How do I know if my app went live in a specific country, in Google Play Store?
- TopCorn2: The Compose Version
- MotionLayout - An Easy Way to Create Complex Animations
- I uploaded an Internal Test update 5 days ago and it's still "In review"
- What is the difference between Service, repository and helper classes in MVVM architecture?
- App update is not published after 55 hours without any email or notice. Now that I add another update they are both in review and the new one hasn't cancelled the old one. Is that normal?
- Google Play Closed Test Track URL not working for any user
- How is the transition from Android/Java to React native?
- Don’t Run Benchmarks on a Debuggable Android App (Like I Did)
| Weekly Anything Goes Thread - January 15, 2021 Posted: 15 Jan 2021 06:00 AM PST Here's your chance to talk about whatever! Although if you're thinking about getting feedback on an app, you should wait until tomorrow's App Feedback thread. Remember that while you can talk about any topic, being a jerk is still not allowed. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Weekly Questions Thread - January 12, 2021 Posted: 12 Jan 2021 06:00 AM PST This thread is for simple questions that don't warrant their own thread (although we suggest checking the sidebar, the wiki, our Discord, or Stack Overflow before posting). Examples of questions:
Large code snippets don't read well on reddit and take up a lot of space, so please don't paste them in your comments. Consider linking Gists instead. Have a question about the subreddit or otherwise for /r/androiddev mods? We welcome your mod mail! Also, please don't link to Play Store pages or ask for feedback on this thread. Save those for the App Feedback threads we host on Saturdays. Looking for all the Questions threads? Want an easy way to locate this week's thread? Click this link! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 15 Jan 2021 01:45 AM PST This is pretty weird but during the past week I've been trying to submit my app in compliance with the new background location privacy policy and was not being accepted. I kept getting the same generic response every time:
I had made sure that everything was compliant and I even had other apps that were already compliant with this policy so I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I contacted Google about it and a person actually replied (yay!)! They sent me the same generic text as above but added this cryptic part:
I couldn't understand what that meant. Does that mean that the word "privacy" can't be in the privacy policy? Why is that? The word was indeed on the privacy policy page, right in the title, but that should be expected, right? I asked for clarification and they responded:
Oooohhh... Oooookay.... So someone (a bot?) is actively monitoring your privacy policy pages and making sure that the word "privacy" appears on it, but not inside <h2></h2> html tags? I added the phrase
submitted the app again and this time it was approved! Can anyone find this requirement anywhere? I tried asking the Google person about it but they replied:
So, remember, in your background location privacy policies, include the word "privacy" somewhere in the page but not only as a title... 🤪 Hope this helps someone with similar issues! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Android 12 will hibernate unused apps Posted: 15 Jan 2021 02:29 PM PST
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| Annoying Premium Upsell Screens Posted: 15 Jan 2021 01:25 PM PST
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| Android create a custom Color Picker Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:25 AM PST
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| Company told me I will be the only Android dev on the team. Is this bad? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 07:47 AM PST So I am looking for an Android development job and I had an interview today. So, when I asked "How big will the Android development team be?" I expected that at least 4 or 5 people would be coding in Android too. But they said: They told me it's a job with a lot of responsability, so I imagine I will indeed be THE ONLY PERSON that will touch that app. What are your thoughts? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Google Play Store App Names and Impersonation Policy Posted: 15 Jan 2021 08:06 AM PST Google Play has an impersonation policy that prohibits app developers from pretending to be other entities. I have a question regarding app names and this policy. I have an app named "NASA Mission History", for an app that well, details NASA's mission history (not really my app but this is an example). The app description contains a disclaimer stating no sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation with NASA. Is this in compliance or do I need to remove NASA from the app description and app name? [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Including a Fragment within AndroidManifest Posted: 15 Jan 2021 01:13 PM PST I'm current having difficulty adding a fragment as a ParentActivity within the AndroidManifest, when adding the ParentActivity; the fragment doesn't appear and doesn't work when adding it in. I was wondering if you guys could help, thanks [link] [comments]  | ||
| Indie developers - How did you create your GDPR compliant privacy policy? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 07:10 AM PST I have a note-taking app that was published about a year ago. I don't save the user's notes on a server, and don't share the content they create anywhere. But I do send analytics events like button clicks, screen views, etc. Users can also add tags to the notes they take. Eventually, I would like to send those tags so I can train a prediction model that I'll use to drive more advanced features. Another use case I plan on adding in the near future: Some of the notes can be clippings from books. I plan on sending the name of the book or the author so I can generate user-specific content. My question is - how did you create a privacy policy for your apps that reflects these features? I saw some sites that offer a privacy policy for 20$ and I'm wondering if there's anything free (preferably open source). [link] [comments]  | ||
| Looking for other mobile devs to join my discord. Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:19 AM PST I am an app developer that also makes games in unity. Im looking for other developers that make mobile apps and games. Here's the link to my discord. https://discord.gg/kWaDc8j [link] [comments]  | ||
| Introduction to Room Database using Kotlin Posted: 15 Jan 2021 08:39 AM PST
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| How to increase your app rating with little effort Posted: 15 Jan 2021 06:30 AM PST Kamal Faraj shows how adding Google Play in-app reviews significantly increased his app rating. https://medium.com/ideas-by-idean/google-play-in-app-reviews-baef71a8f710 [link] [comments]  | ||
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| How do I know if my app went live in a specific country, in Google Play Store? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 05:09 AM PST Last November I pushed my game into the production track but for just a single country. I decided not to distribute it to all countries at once as I thought it would be better to collect some feedback locally before it's ready to be released globally. Today I added all countries to the production track. But now I'm confused and wondering about the following questions:
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| MotionLayout - An Easy Way to Create Complex Animations Posted: 14 Jan 2021 01:16 PM PST
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| I uploaded an Internal Test update 5 days ago and it's still "In review" Posted: 15 Jan 2021 02:38 AM PST Two week ago I had an Internal Test app update rejected because it contained inappropriate ads. So I went into my Google AdMob page and set the Ad content rating to the lowest possible (family friendly). Then I uploaded another Internal Test update and it was rejected again for the same reason. So I went into my Google AdMob page again and this time I also blocked all ads under "Sensitive Categories" to be double sure. Then finally I uploaded an Internal Test update 5 days ago and it's still "In review" right now. I also promoted it to Production just to be sure all previous app versions are deactivated. Usually Internal Tests are available in a few minutes. Why is this one still in review after 5 days? [link] [comments]  | ||
| What is the difference between Service, repository and helper classes in MVVM architecture? Posted: 14 Jan 2021 08:22 PM PST I want to know the difference of contents and usage of Service, repository and helper classes in MVVM architecture (also Dao classes) I got confused since new to this My confusion is Definition for service and repo classes seems to be same I am using ktor and Apollo graphql so no interfaces with that@Get annotations Currently I am calling Apollo query in repo and process the results in service class Like Class userRepi() { Userquery() } Class userSerive() { UserRopo().userquery().find { user.isActive == true } Is the above right or worng Clarify with real world example [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Google Play Closed Test Track URL not working for any user Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:57 AM PST We are trying to setup a beta program for our app (already published, but the new version will be a full rewrite), and invite our users via URL. We have setup a closed track Beta, we have released the apk, however the URL is not working for anyone, we always get the following:
We have tried:
Nothing has worked so far. It is not an option to have an open track nor an internal one since we want more than 100 users. Any ideas about what are we missing? Thank you. EDIT: fancy pants formatting [link] [comments]  | ||
| How is the transition from Android/Java to React native? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:03 AM PST I only know Java and Python, only mobile development I've ever done was on Android (a few small apps). I want to write a cross platform app, and React is what always pops up. Just wondering how easy it would be for a Java developer who has never worked with javascript/node/react to pick this up. Obviously with new technogies there will always be struggles and I accept this - but will the struggle be closer to Java -> C# or Java -> C++? Or is this a completely difterent ball game? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Don’t Run Benchmarks on a Debuggable Android App (Like I Did) Posted: 14 Jan 2021 10:25 AM PST
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