Keynote: Modern Android Development

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Summary gives concrete takeaways: Android moves Kotlin-first with 60% of pro devs using it and 70% of top apps containing Kotlin, and the team declares coroutines preferred for async; Jetpack libraries (ConstraintLayout, MotionLayout, Navigation, ViewModel, Room with suspend support, WorkManager, CameraX beta, Paging 3 rewritten) are the recommended stack; Android App Bundles are becoming mandatory for new apps next August, already used by 500k apps and yielding 15–20% APK size savings in practice.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:50Modern Android development definition
3. 3:40Classic Android development history
4. 17:52Problems with classic Android
5. 24:29Modern Android development pillars
6. 25:53Kotlin programming language
7. 35:17Android Kotlin first approach
8. 41:57Android Jetpack APIs overview
9. 58:55Android Studio tools evolution
10. 1:03:07Modern distribution app bundles
11. 1:07:40Q&A session

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