Android Librarian's Guide: Building Robust Libraries a…
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Maintains over 100 open‑source Android projects (skydoves) with ~20 million downloads per year and installs on ~1.5 billion devices, and shares concrete practices: enable explicit API mode to force visibility and return types, add JVM synthetic to prevent Java access to Kotlin internals, use binary‑compatibility‑validator or Metalava and the generated .api files to detect signature breaks, publish resource restrictions via public.xml and resource prefixes, and prefer AGP’s non‑transitive R class to avoid multidex explosions.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05API surfaces in libraries
- 5:05Visibility and misuse prevention
- 9:05API life cycles with duplication
- 15:23Binary compatibility
- 19:02UI components and resources
- 26:26Transitive dependencies
- 32:33Multidex with non-transitive R
- 35:50Key takeaways
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