Photo by David Pisnoy on Unsplash Android Studio 4.0 was released today, May 28, 2020, into the stable channel. That means it’s available for anyone to download and use, without major problems. This is a major release since Android Studio 3.6, which I also reviewed back then. You can take a look at the official documentation if you want to know every detail, but the...
When building Android apps, you’ll be facing a myriad of different file formats and terminology. Particularly when exporting the final version of your app, you’ll be seeing two main output formats. In this article, we’ll compare Android App Bundle versus APK, which are composed of DEX files. But what do all these acronyms mean? Acronym meaning Before digging deeper into the topics, it’s important...
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. In a previous article, we discussed how to create an Android app with two of the most important building blocks of Android Architecture Components: LiveData and ViewModel. This is a follow-up to that tutorial. Once we have an app with clean architecture, we will be configuring Firebase Firestore for Android Architecture Components to update...
Gradle has been the official Android build tool for quite some time now. It was introduced alongside Android Studio. Before the Android Gradle plugin, Android apps were built in Eclipse with ANT, another build tool. But even though it’s one of our basic everyday tools as Android developers, sometimes we don’t know what is behind it. Let’s learn what is behind this powerful tool. Photo by Bia...
