Keynote: Modern Android Development

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Recommendation: adopt Kotlin as the primary language with coroutines for structured concurrency and the Kotlin-specific tooling (KSP, R8 optimizations); use Android Studio features like profilers, View Binding and Motion Editor; prefer Jetpack libraries (80+ and growing) — Paging 3, WorkManager (back to API 14), CameraX (beta) and Jetpack Compose (alpha) replace old patterns; publish with Android App Bundle (500,000+ apps use it, ~20% median download savings, required for new apps H2 2021). Kotlin first development is the team’s explicit stance.

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1. 0:00Introduction and housekeeping
2. 1:59Classic Android development overview
3. 10:45Problems with classic Android
4. 14:16Modern Android development defined
5. 15:19Kotlin language benefits
6. 24:58Android Studio evolution
7. 27:29Modern APIs and Jetpack
8. 33:05Coroutines and architecture
9. 36:19Navigation and single activity
10. 38:23WorkManager and CameraX
11. 42:16Android app bundles
12. 46:05Summary and resources

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