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Fun fact : Modern CPUs can only handle a certain number of threads at one time.

This Android Tool Time pro-tip roundup with Reto Meier shows off expert Android Studio tips designed to help you write less code, and make every keystroke count Video went too quickly?

Let’s say you’ve got some 20 bitmaps being decoded on a worker thread. Well, what happens if your activity is destroyed before that work completes? In this video Doug Stevenson explains Loaders.

WeVideo is a video editing platform first launched for Android, and since the latest update to the app, revenue on the platform has doubled every two months.

Pivotal with Reto Meier is Asynchronous Pair Programming at Scale.

This Android Experiment is a data-driven live wallpaper. It displays the battery level, wireless signal and number of notifications of your device in a simple visualization.

Dealing with Intent responses is a backbone concept to Android development.

The Guardian explains how they’ve optimized their news app for for interplanetary space distribution on Google Play, with the new features in the Google Play Console and updated Material Design

We know that you’re an awesome engineer, and you’re using threading to the MAX.

While AsyncTask is the most useful threading class you can use, there’s some situations where it just doesn’t make sense.

Android Tool Time Protip: Use and create your own Live Templates in Android Studio to write more code with less keystrokes using Live Templates to insert common, templatized code snippets.

Read the blog post: goo.gl/OQeGZJ StrictMode is your runtime lint checks, helping you catch potential bugs before they are experienced by your users.

Korean game developer Daeri Soft is well known for real-time multiplayer games such as Freestyle Baseball 2 which now receives 13 million downloads per day globally.

AsyncTask is awesome. It helps you get packets of work OFF the main thread, onto a worker thread, and then helps you get the results BACK to the main thread later.

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Checkout the new CameraX library, built on top of Camera2 - goo.gle/2HHFlwY CameraX documentation - goo.gle/3bVTzbq

It’s no secret that threaded code and system memory don’t play well together, and on Android, this is no different.

Note that the old DirectShare API is deprecated, check out the newer ShareSheet in Android 10 - bit.ly/32mc7x9 ---------------------------------------------------- Read the blog post

Learn the basics of Android and Java programming, and take the first step on your journey to becoming an Android developer!

To become a zen-ninja of writing threaded code, you need to understand how the Android platform uses threading at the system level, and how that influences design choices & decisions in your app.

Read the blog post: medium.com/google-developers/sharing-content-between-android-apps-2e6db9d1368b Sharing is kind of a big deal, but ShareCompat (

US founded photo editing app Aviary, has a strong focus on simplicity and intuitive use.

Read the full blog post: goo.gl/HVyTAf The 23.2 release of the Android Support Library brings brand new libraries in the form of support-vector-drawable and animated-vector-drawable as well

Pivotal Series Pilot Prototype: Screencast of Reto Meier showing the easiest, fastest, and wrongest way to build a simple location-based app—representing about two hours of real-time coding and

When it comes to building great Android apps, there are very few things as important to performance as threading.

Also checkout out ConstraintLayout: goo.gle/2PcclBA Read the blog post: medium.com/google-developers/layouts-attributes-and-you-9e5a4b4fe32c When you pick a layout, think of the

US company BabyFirst creates educational content for babies, toddlers and their parents. Their apps now have over 30 million downloads, with 40% more downloads on Google Play than other platforms.

Read the blog post: medium.com/google-developers/testing-app-standby-b8b90c4f411 App Standby is happening. To apps like yours, all across the world.

Maps on mobile devices not only provide a local map in your pocket, but also a map of the entire world down to street level.

If your Android app knows the user's location and activity, it can offer the most relevant help in the moment.