Does your app provide a service that starts another app’s Activity as a callback when some action occurs? For example, does it accept an Intent as an extra parameter of another Intent, which is used as a parameter of a startActivity() call? Did you know this can leave your app…

This article was originally posted here: https://ayusch.com/android-internals-the-android-os-boot-process/ This post is targeted for Software Engineers wanting to dive deep into Android’s Internals and its workings. We’ll take a look at what happens when your Android Phone boots up but specifically what is Zygote in Android and its role in firing up…

This post series explores the implementation of Android Architecture Components (AAC) so we make the magic go away. In this instalment we’ll focus on LiveData. You can see the other posts here: The ViewModel LiveData What is LiveData? Let’s look at the definition from Android’s documentation: LiveData is an observable data holder class…

Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/heyitsmohit In February, I gave a presentation at the NY Android Meetup on unit testing Channels and Flows with practical use cases. In this blog post, I will share with you how to test delays, retries, and errors with Flows. …

The Zygote Process The Zygote process appropriately gets is name after the dictionary definition of the word: “It is the initial cell formed when a new organism is produced”. Zygote is a special process in Android which handles the forking of each new application process. These processes are simply regular Linux processes. We…

How Airbnb ships features faster across web, iOS, and Android using a server-driven UI system named Ghost Platform 👻. By Ryan Brooks Background: Server-Driven UI Before we dive into Airbnb’s implementation of server-driven UI (SDUI), it’s important to understand the general idea of SDUI and how it provides an advantage over traditional client-driven…

Intro In this series of articles I’m going to share my knowledge of the inner workings of RecyclerView. Why? Just think about it: RecyclerView is needed almost in every modern Android app, so the way developers work with it affects the experience of millions and millions of users. And yet, what…