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How do you deal with google play making api 33 a required target?

I haven’t developed android apps since a few years ago and my knowledge on publishing apps is probably a bit dusty. I just realised that new apps now need to target api 33 and higher, to be publishable on google play. This means the new apps will run on only 22% of devices. How could google...


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Enable users to share your app's deep links using navigation-recents-url-sharing (with androidx.navigation)

I wrote "Enable users to share your app's deep links using navigation-recents-url-sharing" and with it the navigation-recents-url-sharing library which implements what the article talks about for those of you who use androidx.navigation and want this behavior for free. This is about this...


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Walk-through of my another OpenSource project built with Jetpack Compose - More in Comments

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Has Anyone Else Noticed Changes in Google's App Review Process Lately?

Have developers noticed any recent shifts in the Google review process? Over the past decade, I've been consistently deploying apps without any major hurdles until around late last year. All my apps are native to Android, and each one has a corresponding counterpart developed in Swift for iOS. ...


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Is connecting to a MySQL Datebase via a REST API faster or slower than connecting directly to the DB?

I got a super simple springboot app working that I now can start, and then use retrofit in my school project (which I was already using for my API’s) to retrieve data from GET endpoints. I still have it set up to connect directly but I’ve been slowly changing it to just use retrofit for...


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Will Google charge/allow for any prepaid apps?

I'm unsure of the perfect name for my app, but let's assume it has a basic free version and a pro version. Anyone can download and use the basic version for free. However, for the pro version, users will encounter a login page that requires them to have signed up on my website and paid the...


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Apps targeting Android 15 will be forced into edge-to-edge mode

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Is it better to use a third party paint/animation software or use android studio's built in painting capabilities?

Is it even possible to create custom animations in android studio? submitted by /u/ComplexSecretary14 comments


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Is it worth it to convert a legacy java codebase to kotlin?

Hi, I am solely working on a legacy Java project for my company right now. I also have a huge amount of downtime with this project due to the absence of new features being introduced. So, during this free time, I have been pondering whether it would be worth it to convert the whole codebase to...


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Does having removed app cause of deprecated API gives my account negative credits?

One of the apps I have got removed from the store cause of outdates API version. Do I get any negative points from Google for having this action taken against the app I've worked on? I don't want my account to be terminated. submitted by /u/KisniDan comments


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Best way to scrape Fandom website for an app.

I wanted to ask what approach yall would take to scrape a Fandom website in order to create an app version of the wiki for a single game/show. I am in an intro to Android Dev class and wanted to get some input on the best way to approach this for a project. Should I scrape the site in python...


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How to open emoji section on Keyboard?

I am currently developing one app and that app I want to set on button click to open emoji section of the keyboard and that emoji set on text view. I try many things but that do not work I want to make that without using any external plugin. submitted by /u/Hardik_Zinzala https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1cavcz0/how_to_open_emoji_section_on_keyboard/ [comments]


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What's the name of this theme?

So today at work one of my coworkers showed me this image (it's and instagram post) and wanted to the name of the theme. He wanted the theme for visual studio but I think it's for android studio. I hope I'm right and also, I hope that it's a well known theme and I can find it for visual...


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Android iguana gradle issue

Hey ther I was trying the tutorial on android studio but I run into an issue in the last step 9, I am trying to implement safeArgs but I keep getting the following error in this file plugins { alias(libs.plugins.androidApplication) apply false alias(libs.plugins.safeArgsPlugin)...


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Detect remote access

I am building a threat model for an Android application and was wondering what methods there are to detect remote access and screen sharing. Specifically detecting that applications like teamviewer etc are active when my app is running. Thanks! submitted by /u/Glittering-Newt9681 https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1cd47hk/detectremoteaccess/ ...


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Using OnFrameMetricsAvailableListener API on SurfaceView

I need to use the new FrameMetric API) introduced in Android N on the SurfaceView. Since that API is available only on the window property I can't use it on the SurfaceView (which has its own Window but not exposed unlike Activity#window) I triedactivity.window.addOnFrameMetricsAvailableListener ...


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Android Studio Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 now available

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Apps That Let Me Sumperimpose Faces Onto Video Clips?

I used to use an Android app called Face Magic from the Google Play Store, which allowed you to put faces from your photos into movie and tv clips, with pretty impressive results. The app was later gutted of most content, likelybdue to copyright enforcement. Are there any other apps that allow...


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An analysis of the rabbit R1 APK - Rabbit R1 Deep Dive

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Is Recent DataStore Library Update Breaking Apps?

Google released an update of 1.1.1 version for the Data Store library. Any version above the https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/datastore#1.1.0-alpha04 is breaking few aspects of the data fetching scenarios on the app. For example, we can’t reliably fetch the data store...


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Developing a new app

I've been an android developer for more than 10 years. I published several apps since the play store had only a handful of them. I'm currently have 2 apps in production one with 1M+ downloads, 11k reviews and 4.1 stars, the other with 500k+ downloads 29k reviews and 4.7 stars, which I try to...


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