Android development yesterday and today
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Chronicle of Android versions that names concrete changes and engineering outcomes: early experiments like the blink Android project solve multi‑phone image scaling with a 30s heartbeat approach; Lollipop introduces the first developer preview and Marshmallow proves previews can ship with over-the-air updates, a finalized SDK and production signing for easier testing; Google builds a compatibility test suite and CDD to enforce device behavior, expands the support library and hires technical writers to reduce reliance on Stack Overflow.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:25How do you become inspiring
- 1:10Android Statue Garden
- 2:20Cupcake
- 3:15Donut
- 5:20Ray Domeier
- 6:20Froyo
- 7:13Honeycomb
- 8:33Ice Cream Sandwich
- 9:48Jelly Bean Statue
- 10:51KitKat
- 11:46Lollipop
- 13:02Your feedback loop
- 16:00Preview experience
- 16:58Developer focus
- 20:03The mental world
- 21:51Questions
- 22:48Changing mentality
- 24:01Compatibility
- 25:55Join our question
- 26:24Can we now have a single support
- 27:30Working on both problems simultaneously
- 27:58Android API documentation
- 29:15Lack of technical writers
- 30:13Swift support
