Improved incremental builds in Gradle 7.0
The most recent version of the well-known software build tool used in Android development and other areas, Gradle 7.0, provides support for Java 16 and faster incremental builds. To speed up incremental builds, file system watching is now enabled by…
K2 compiler appears in Kotlin
Kotlin 1.7.0, an update to the JVM, web, and mobile programming language from JetBrains, includes an alpha version of the ground-breaking K2 compiler. K2 is designed to accelerate the creation of new language features, unify the platforms that Kotlin supports,…
Extensions, better macOS & Flutter support, Personalization beta, more for Firebase
During the annual Firebase Summit, Google revealed more simple extensions and improved support for macOS and Flutter apps, as well as the beta launch of Firebase Personalization. If you're unfamiliar with Firebase, it's a set of cloud-based app development tools…
Use Font Awesome icons in android apps
Font Awesome is a widely used icon toolkit that may be found on a variety of websites. It features both a free and a paid icon collection, but the free collection has the majority of the icons. Unicode () will…
Google in-app review API – android rate app snippet
App ratings and reviews are critical factors in driving more downloads after your app is live on the Play Store. To do this, we typically ask users to rate the app by displaying a popup with a few buttons and…