Android Developers Blog

Posted by Luli Perkins , Developer Relations Program Manager We kicked off the #AndroidDevJourney to give members of our community the opportunity to share their stories through our social platforms. Each Saturday from January through June we’ll feature a new developer on our Twitter account . We have received an overwhelming number of inspirational stories and hope you enjoy reading through the ones we’ve selected below. For a chance to be featured in our February spotlight series, tweet us your story using #AndroidDevJourney. Niharika Arora Tell me about your journey in becoming an Android Developer and how you got started. My journey started in the field of Android when I was in my 4th year of undergrad studies. I got an internship in a startup named GreenAppleSolutions. There I got a chance to work on an Android project from scratch and luckily my first project went live on the Play Store. During this whole internship, I found Android so interesting because everything you code,...

Posted by Eric Bahna, Product Manager In December, we opened the Google Play Store for publishing new Android Auto apps to closed testing . Today, you can reach more drivers by publishing navigation, parking, and charging apps to open testing tracks in the Google Play Store. With open testing, there’s no limit to the number of users who can download your app and you don’t need to manage lists of email addresses. This is an important milestone that gets us closer to making these apps available to all users in production. Get started with the Android for Cars App Library and choose an open testing track in the Play Console. TomTom AmiGO, one of our early access partners To give you a peek at what’s ahead, we’re working on adding the library to Android Jetpack ! This will give you more consistency with other Jetpack APIs and visibility into new features. When the Jetpack library is ready, migrating your app from the existing library will be straightforward - change the namespace and twe...

We just wrapped up another series of MAD Skills videos and articles - this time on Kotlin and Jetpack. We covered different ways in which we made Android code more expressive and concise, safer, and easy to run asynchronous code with Kotlin. Check out the episodes below to level up your Kotlin and Jetpack knowledge! Each episode covers a specific set of APIs, talking both about how to use the APIs but also showing how APIs work under the hood. All the episodes have accompanying blog posts and most of them link to either a sample or a codelab to make it easier to follow and dig deeper into the content. We also had a live Q&A featuring Jetpack and Kotlin engineers. Episode 1 - Using KTX libraries In this episode we looked at how you can make your Android and Jetpack coding easy, pleasant and Kotlin-idiomatic with Jetpack KTX extensions . Currently, more than 20 libraries have a KTX version. This episode covers some of the most important ones: core-ktx that provides...