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Exploring the v28 Android Design Support Library Additions
Version 28 of the Android support library was recently announced — within the current alpha version there is a collection of exciting new…
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Here at Firebase, we want to make sure you and your users don't ever need to think about the dark underbelly of securing identities and managing users. That's why we're here! We've been hard at work making Firebase Authentication even better, and today I'd love to take you through some of the new functionality we've delivered in an effort to make registering and signing in users even easier.
An overview of device characteristics and platform versions that are active in the Android ecosystem.
Today, we’re announcing that Google Play Protect is bringing Safe Browsing to WebView by default, starting in April 2018 with the release of WebView 66.

Kotlin's lateinit is wonderful. However, trying to access a lateinit variable before it's initialized will crash your app. Learn how to deal with that.
Libraries
gnirehtet - Gnirehtet provides reverse tethering for Android
scrcpy - Display and control your Android device
ViewPagerDSL - Kotlin DSL for ViewPager and FragmentPagerAdapter
Videos/Podcasts
In this episode of Fragmented, we wrap up another 2 part series. We dive into the details of the Arrow library with this one.
Class of the week
A mutable sequence of characters. This class provides an API compatible with StringBuffer, but with no guarantee of synchronization. This class is designed for use as a drop-in replacement for StringBuffer in places where the string buffer was being used by a single thread (as is generally the case). Where possible, it is recommended that this class be used in preference to StringBuffer as it will be faster under most implementations. 
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