Dive deep into the Android UI rendering pipeline. Learn how to help Android choose the best refresh rate for your app, as well as how the refresh rate impacts app rendering. 🏊 Read here ↓ goo.gle/3az0jtN

Wrote some article why and how to keep your Gradle modules graph healthy and lean. proandroiddev.com/module-rules-p… Plugin which might help you with this: github.com/jraska/modules… #Gradle #AndroidDev

📣 Gradle 6.4 is out! 🎊🎊🎊 gradl.es/2YBBBGY Enjoy: ☕ Java Modules support ⚙️ precompiled Groovy DSL script plugins 📁 a single lock file per project Please report any new problems via GitHub.

Gradle buildSrc directory can help you organise your Gradle build logic, but it can also harm your build time. There are better ways: proandroiddev.com/stop-using-gra… #gradle #AndroidDev

Thanks a lot AndroidWeekly for sharing my article "Stop using Gradle buildSrc. Use composite builds instead"  proandroiddev.com/stop-using-gra… #AndroidDev #gradle #kotlin

📣 Gradle 6.5 is out! gradl.es/2BvmQfz Try out: 👀 Experimental file-system watching 🔀 Improved version ordering 📚 New samples in the documentation and please report any 🐛 via GitHub.

🚀 Experimental file-system watching is now available in Gradle 6.5, another great step towards extremely fast feedback cycles in local incremental builds. gradl.es/3eK43eC

✨ Introducing the new Google Play Console in public Beta! The redesigned Google Play Console is now clearer and easier to use with new and improved features to help you maximize your success. More info → goo.gle/play-console-b… #Android11 #PlayConsole

Check out the latest insights about Kotlin in a dedicated section of the State of Developer Ecosystem 2020, a survey and report by JetBrains. #DevEcosystem20 jb.gg/devecosystem20…

Comparing two strings irrespective of their capitalization? Don’t create new strings with toLower() to compare them. Instead, use equals(), which has an option to ignore case when comparing two strings. This way you won’t have to allocate any extra strings to do the comparison.

📣 Gradle 6.6 is out! 🎉 gradl.es/2DELbAP Try out: 🚀 Experimental configuration caching 🔐 Conventions for credential handling ☕ JDK --release flag support and please report any new 🐛 via GitHub.

🥳 Kotlin 1.4 is released! It brings the speed and quality improvements that were frequently requested by the community. On top of that, you can check out SAM interfaces, along with other exciting features! Try the new Kotlin 1.4. Details here ➡️ kotl.in/1_4_Release

Starting with 1.4, a property can delegate its getter and setter to another property. To rename a property in a backward-compatible way, introduce a new property, annotate the old one with a @Deprecated annotation, and delegate its implementation.

📣 Kotlin 1.4.20-M1 is now available! ✅New project templates in Kotlin/JS ✅Kotlin/JS Gradle plugin upgrades ✅Performance boosts ✅Kotlin/Native 1.4.10 backwards compatibility 🐞Bug fixes, and more... Try it and share your feedback with us! Details ⬇️ kotl.in/1.4.20-M1

🎉 Gradle 7.0 is out! gradl.es/3uEIggl Next major version with 👀 File system watching enabled by default ☕ Support for building Java 16 projects 🍎 Native support for Apple Silicon 📒 Dependency catalog feature preview Report new 🐛 on GitHub.

It was great to talk about #gradle build time today at #dcbln21. References of the talk: git.io/J6a73 The organisers did a great job in making sure that even in a remote setup things go well and smooth 👏 👏 👏

Released module-graph-assert 2.0.0 - Gradle plugin to keep the module dependency graph lean. github.com/jraska/modules… During the year and a half since version 1 there was a bunch of 🙏great feedback🙏 and version 2 puts that in. #gradle #modularization

Thoughts wrote down after a while - Testing push messaging can be challenging - here is an option how: proandroiddev.com/push-end-to-en…

Next up in our #dcldn22 speaker announcement queue, we’ve got Josef Raska! Josef Raska will discuss how to measure & automatically identify problematic #modules and their dependencies paths. Learn more about his talk here: london.droidcon.com/josef-raska/

Using the plugin pattern in a modularized codebase: one of the most useful modularization patterns finally written down. proandroiddev.com/using-the-plug…