Your guide to the Play Console

Read it here → https://goo.gl/qwRrZX

Whether you are in a business or technical role, the Play Console has much more to offer than simply publishing on Google Play. In this post get a tour around its many useful features that will boost the quality and business performance of your app, including some of its lesser known features.

Is the number of method overloads getting out of hand? Specify default parameter values in functions.

Make the code even more readable with named parameters.

Doc: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/functions.html#default-arguments

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Four successful founders in the apps and games industry share their captivating stories on how they got to where they are today and what has inspired them along the way.

Read about their journey → https://goo.gl/fe4ri1

Cryptography Changes in Android P

Read the full blog post → https://goo.gl/nD58Uj

We hope you're enjoying the first developer preview of Android P. We wanted to specifically call out some backward-incompatible changes we plan to make to the cryptographic capabilities in Android P, which you can see in the developer preview.

In Kotlin, everything is public by default! Well, almost. Kotlin has a rich set of visibility modifiers you can use as well: private, protected, internal. Each of them reduces the visibility in a different way.

Docs: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/visibility-modifiers.html

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What's New in the Android P Preview

Watch the video here → goo.gl/zes4wj

Check out highlights from the first #AndroidP preview, including network-awareness in JobScheduler, improvements to ART including #Kotlin speed and reduced DEX memory usage, a new way of decoding images, including animated GIFs and WebPs. support for HDR VP9 Profile 2 and HEIC images, dual-camera app support, WiFi location using WiFi Round Trip Time, OMAPI for NFC smart card payments, updates to the Neural Network API including an accelerated Pixel 2 driver, a new Fingerprint Dialog, support for edge-to-edge displays with cutouts, and more.

Android P Developer Preview 1 is available today

Read the blog post here → https://goo.gl/Nc3ad2

Get an early look at some of the new features in the next version of Android for testing, development, and don't forget to give us your feedback.

DP1 includes WiFi RTT; multi-camera API, optimized Kotlin; improved notifications and content display; better security and privacy, and much more. With your feedback, we’ll continue to iterate and improve on P, and we’ll have lots more to share at Google I/O in May!

Get started → https://goo.gl/ZDFmvR
Join the discussion in our Google+ community → https://goo.gl/gtc95o

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Creating classes with one role: to hold data? Mark them as “data” classes. The default implementation of equals() is generated (so are hashCode(), toString(), and copy()) and checks for structural equality.

Docs:
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/data-classes.html#data-classes
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/equality.html

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Android Things Developer Preview 7 is available today. New updates include camera improvements, new Bluetooth APIs, and many stability fixes.

Read the blog post here → goo.gl/o4sLWB

Android Things Developer Preview 7 addresses much of the top developer feedback we've received so far during preview. Download the preview today to try out the improved camera resolutions and Bluetooth pairing/connection APIs. Visit the developer console to learn about new features such as product sharing and device update channels.

Join the discussion in our Google+ community → https://g.co/iotdev

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