by Nate Ebel, Android Developer The buildSrc directory of a Gradle project is a special directory that is treated as an included build and provides a convenient location to store common or complex build logic used throughout your Gradle project. A common example of this might be to declare statically…

By Nate Ebel, Android Developer The Mobile Engineering team here at Premise has made a concerted effort to improve developer efficiency over the past year. One of the biggest areas of tech investment has been into understanding and reducing the Gradle build times of our Android project. We worked with…

By Nate Ebel, Android Developer As Kotlin continuously evolves and adds new features, development teams can’t always keep up. …

Kotlin vs Java? Which language is best for Android development in 2021? New Android developers want to know which language they should learn for building modern Android applications. …

Unsurprisingly, when discussing take-home assignments for coding interviews, much of the focus is put on code. Can you code? Are you using “best practices?” What tools are you using?. There’s lots of code-related things that people think about, or even stress about. Unfortunately, non-coding tips for coding interview assignments don’t…

Are your Android Gradle builds ever slower than you expect? Sometimes even painfully slow? I think most Android devs have felt this at one point or another, and many engineers spend countless hours optimizing Gradle builds to improve the productivity of mobile dev teams. Unfortunately, sometimes, even a well-optimized Gradle…

GitHub recently announced GitHub CLI; a first-party command line tool for interfacing with GitHub from the command line. With GitHub CLI, developers can check the status of GitHub issues and pull requests, search for a specific issue or PR, create/fork a repo, or create new issues and pull requests right…

Several times, over this past week, I found myself coming across release announcements for Android libraries that I’ve been interested in. In particular, I was pleased to see releases for WorkManager, Navigation, and MDC-Android: Honestly, I personally find even this short list of 4 releases to be plenty to try…

You are reading the first installment of this new series dedicated to exploring the latest tools, tips and trends in the world of Android development; helping you stay up to date and to grow in your career. Each issue will aim to highlight new libraries, tools, tutorials and discussions around…