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Best of AndroidDev.Social January 2023

Every month Android Dev Social will send out links/posts we found interesting Enjoy Best of January January 8th ChatGPT Android by @skydoves gets a mention from the Google Developers Twitter account: https://androiddev.social/@skydoves/109654226719136891 and the Twitter link can be found here: https://twitter.com/googledevs/status/

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Interface Naming Conventions

Many engineers will tell you that one of the most complicated responsibilities of our job is naming things. Variables, classes, functions, everything we write requires conscious thought. A special case among these are interfaces. This is because we not only have to name an interface, but we need to decide

The "trigger" pattern

Reactive programming and the observable pattern are everywhere nowadays. It is so omnipresent that it's hard to find a library which does not use it or enforce it. It is even more so in the Android ecosystem where Google first released their LiveData library in 2017 and is now more

You don't need a custom share sheet for that!

Native share sheets have come a long way on Android and there's really no excuse for implementing custom share sheets anymore. Right? At Pocket we sat down a couple years ago to retire our old custom share UI and switch to the native one, but we uncovered two product requirements

ActivityPub and Android

Once upon a time, Android was a "green field opportunity", and now is a mature technology. Perhaps ActivityPub is another area of opportunity, where Android developers can be distinctive.

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