The TL;DR of last weeks Android Developer news

Episode 8

The TL;DR of last weeks Android developer news

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Blog Posts
Navigation Week
A problem like Navigation by Maria Neumayer
Exploring the Android Navigation Artchitecure Component by Joe Birch
Exploring Android's Navigation Architecture Component by Nish Tahir
Android Navigation Components — Part 1 by Dario Mungoi
Android Navigation Architecture Component — a glimpse of future? By Juhani Lehtimäki

All About Type Aliases in Kotlin by Dave Leeds 
A year as Android Engineer by Lara Martin
Tools and Libraries
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 15
Android Emulator 27.2.9
Dagger 2.16
Moshi 1.6
Exploring Moshi’s Kotlin Code Gen by Zac Sweers

Other Stuff
Play services issue preventing MapView from working on some Huawei devices
Fix for LiveData problems with Fragments
Episode 92: Navigation Controller by Android Developers Backstage
124: IO 2018 first impressions with Android Dialogs & Pocket Casts team by Android Developers Backstage by Fragmented Podcast
Fragmented Crossover #io18 by Android Dialogs
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Hosted and edited by Mike Scamell

Episode 40 - 20/5/18

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Blog Posts
RxJava to Kotlin coroutines by Chris Banes
Announcing new SDK versioning in Google Play services and Firebase by Doug Stevenson
Immerse Yourself in the Android Developer Community by Tyler McCraw
Custom Light Drawing in an Android Smart Home app by Gabor Novak
Talks
Droidcon Italy
Tools And Libraries
Embedding Kotlin Playground by Jetbrains
Nanoscope by Uber
Android Studio Canary 3.2 alpha 13
Emulator updated to 27.3.0 canary and 27.2.8 beta 
Firebase/Play services were updated to… a few different versions
Google Places/Maps pricing changes
Other Stuff
Spansspanspanspan
New Udacity Flutter course from Google
https://androidexample365.com
Theme music: "Fresh Kicks" by Sono Sanctus
Guest hosted by Zac Sweers
Edited by Mike Scamell

Episode 39 - 5/5/18

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Blog Posts
Previewing Material Design 2.0 by Raveesh Bhalla
Introducing Constraint Layout 1.1 by Sean McQuillan
HQ Trivia reverse engineering by Hugo Hache and Adrien Couque
Tools And Libraries
Android Studio 3.1.2
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 12
Emulator 27.2.7 Canary
Other Stuff
Android Fireside Chat Twitter Questions
Lisa Luo: Functional reactive programming + MVVM, Swift + Kotlin by Android Dialogs
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Hosted and edited by Mike Scamell

Episode 38 - 29/3/18

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Blog Posts
Exploring the v28 Android Design Support Library Additions by Joe Birch
Coroutines and RxJava — An Asynchronicity Comparison (Part 3): Transferring stream of values by Manuel Vicente Vivo
A Guided Tour inside a clean architecture code base. by Yossi Segev
#31DaysOfKotlin — Week 3 Recap by Florina Muntenescu and Sean McQuillan
Protecting WebView with Safe Browsing
What’s new in Firebase Authentication?
Talks
How Proguard Works by Jeb Ware
Updates
Kotlin 1.2.40
Gradle 4.7
Android Things Developer Preview 8
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 11
Android Emulator 27.2.6 Canary
Android Test Support Library 1.0.2-beta1
Dex Method List 3.1.0
Other Stuff
Android Developer Survey from Google
Android platform versions dashboard update
Fragmented Cast: 121: Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team – II with Donn Felker, Kaushik Gopal, Paco, Raúλ Raja, Jorge Castillo
Android Dialogs: Joaquim Verges: Twitch + ARCore with Huyen Tue Dao and Joaquim Verges
Chicago Roboto 2018 Recap by Nate Ebel
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Theme music: "Fresh Kicks" by Sono Sanctus
This episode was guest hosted and edited by Michael Bailey
(Normally hosted by Mike Scamell)
Michael Bailey is also cohost of the Native Wheel House podcast

Episode 37 - 22/4/18

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Blog Posts
What does GDPR mean for Mobile App Owners? — 12 Use Cases by Karol Wrótniak
Android Activity Life-Cycle for Professional Developers by Vasiliy Zukanov
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Sealed classes opened my mind by Patrick Cousins
Tools And Libraries
Paris
Crumb
Updates
ConstraintLayout 1.1.0
Android Studio 3.1.1
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 10
Emulator 27.2.5 Canary
Play Services 15.0.0
Other Stuff
GCM now deprecated in favour of FCM
Constraint Layout 2.0
Google IO Schedule
Episode 89: Upon Reflection by Android Developers Backstage
120: Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team by Fragmented Podcast
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Theme music: "Fresh Kicks" by Sono Sanctus
Hosted and edited by Mike Scamell

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