By Mike Nakhimovich — Feb 8, 2023

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/1612102389057593346

Drafting: Everyday Writing by @sen gets its 1.34 release. The drafting app gets some nice new features such as vibrating slightly when starting and finishing of moving custom toolbar icons and more. https://androiddev.social/@sen/109651286101040910

January 9th

Mishaal Rahman posted a round-up of what's new in the Android 13 QPR2 Beta release that happened today. You can find that here: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/109661618551076877 though it does lead directly to a Twitter list since threading on Mastodon is bit more work per Mishaal.

Great Post by spaghettiCode about how he wrangled a large codebase when starting new at a company

January 12th

Hosting Mastodon on DigitalOcean/Kubernetes

January 16th

Our first guest blogger!

Article by Mark Murphy written about ActivityPub and Android: ActivityPub and Android (androiddev.blog)

January 17th

The DIY'ers of the Android community have delivered something that was quickly being requested by a lot of users. GoogleTV remote as a lock screen shortcut is available with AOSPMods. Original message here: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/109706513984072227 and the GitHub link is here: CHANGELOG: Added TV remote to lockscreen shortcuts · siavash79/AOSPMods@8bd10ef (github.com)

Compose Compiler 1.4.0 released with Kotlin 1.8.0 support. Compose Compiler | Android Developers

January 19th

Twitter officially puts a stop to all 3rd party Twitter apps from using the API: Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules - The Verge

January 21st

Security researcher Ken Gannon discloses two exploits that impact Samsung's app store on Android devices. https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/109723958464120653

Google possibly to unveil about 20 new products and a new version of Google search at Google I/O and later this year: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/109722458643758585 original article here: Google Calls In Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Tackle ChatGPT and A.I. Chatbots - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Dual eSIM support appears to start working for some Pixel 7 users: The Pixel 7 features powered by Android 13 APIs (esper.io)

January 22nd

Google lays off 12,000+ employees, some who had been with the company for 15 - 20+ years! Google employees scramble for answers after layoffs hit long-tenured (cnbc.com)

Microsoft lays off all of it's VR/AR teams along with about 11,000 employees. Microsoft Lays Off All Its VR, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens Employees: Report - ExtremeTech

January 23rd

Microsoft invests $10 billion into Open AI after laying off 11,000+ employees. Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI (MSFT) - Bloomberg

January 25th

Grocy 3.0 for Android is released with a Material You redesign. Grocy is a Grocery Management app by Patrick Zedler. https://androiddev.social/@patzly/109752341647865930

Gradle folks talk about how Minecraft and suspicious gradle wrappers :eyes:

Updates to Sceneview from our Arcore friends

How to connect to localhost from android emulator

January 26th

Mobile dev folks and Maestro are continuing to kill it

January 27th

Trunks, another new app for Mastodon, gets an Android and iOS beta release with features such as: Multi-account support, quote toots, threaded replies, dark mode and instance browse. https://mstdn.social/@trunksapp/109759970359987018 and the Play Store link: trunks - Apps on Google Play

Ben's journey to repair an iphone using 3 50lb pelican cases worth of tools