Support for newer Java language APIs

When you use Android Gradle Plugin 4.0.0 and newer, you can now use several hundred APIs from newer OpenJDK versions and your app will work on any Android device? Some of these newer Java APIs in Android 11 are supported through backporting while other APIs are also available via desugaring on older devices where the Android platform does not have the APIs on the runtime.

Resources:
Check out the website → https://goo.gle/30FDT8S
Full list of supported Java 8+ APIs → https://goo.gle/3enaGD5

Virtually Maker Faire – May 23, 2020

Featuring Makers Responding to COVID-19

24 Hours of Presentations, Workshops, Demos, and Exhibits Across All Time Zones

Across the world, makers have responded to shortages of medical supplies and equipment with agile designs, adaptive distributed manufacturing, and community organizing. Virtually Maker Faire will be a stage to share the projects and learn from the people behind this extraordinary civic response.

Virtually Maker Faire will take place online through video sessions and an exhibit showcase on Make: Projects.

Google Play - Spring 2020 Policy Updates

Google Play PolicyBytes - Spring 2020 Policy Updates


explains the spring 2020 Play policy updates on subscriptions, background location access, malware, resource downloads, and more. Stay tuned to learn more about these updates, plus best practices for app compliance on Google Play and resources to help you understand the new updates.

What is 5G?

What is 5G? | CNBC Explains



Everything You Need to Know About 5G


5G in 2019: The benefits, rollout and challenges at CES 2019

Complete Android Fragment & Activity Lifecycle, very nice!

A very nice diagram of the Android Activity / Fragment lifecycle:

source: https://github.com/xxv/android-lifecycle (with downloads of PDF and SVG version)

Install the new Google Mobile Ads SDK for Android

Google have made some big changes recently to the SDK for Android; it's now included as part of Google Play services 4.0.

If you're an Android developer you'll be familiar with Google Play services, a unified platform which makes it easy to integrate Google features into your Android apps, delivered through the Play Store and updated at regular intervals. Now that AdMob is part of the package, a key benefit is that changes to the Google Mobile Ads SDK for Android get pushed seamlessly to users through Google Play services. For most SDK updates you don’t need to update your apps each time it changes, saving you development time. Follow these instructions to install the SDK.