The hottest Android Substack posts right now

Podcasting is experiencing a winter phase, with struggles in monetization and platform acquisitions.
Apple's embrace of RSS-based podcasting with features like episode transcripts signals a commitment to open collaboration.
Podcasting 2.0 focuses on enhancing RSS feeds with new features in an open and community-driven manner.

1.1.x releases focused on mnemonics and improving user experience.
Future builds will focus on enhancing Uniswap experience and supporting DAO contracts.
The goal is to establish web3wallet as the best wallet in the market by version 1.5.x.

Using C++ in Android can offer potential performance gains due to lower-level system access and existing libraries.
Communication between Kotlin and C++ through the JNI comes with a cost, with rough estimates ranging from ~0 to ~104ns on modern devices, and additional costs for operations like sending integer arrays.
For heavier workloads on large amounts of data, utilizing C++ for tasks like sorting an array or modifying elements can lead to significant performance improvements compared to Kotlin.

Android has a unique feature that allows voice recognition in Vietnamese.
The voice recognition feature on Android can understand Vietnamese commands, like searching for places or ordering food.
This blog post was entirely written using the voice recognition program on Android, with the exception of punctuations.

Identify and monitor app performance issues, like slow rendering and frozen frames, to enhance user experience. It's important to keep the app responsive to avoid losing users.
Use tools like Firebase Performance Monitoring to track performance data and identify problems, such as long UI thread operations that can cause jank.
Implement strategies to improve performance, like using View Stubs for loading UI components on demand and avoiding long tasks on the main thread, which can make the app freeze.

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Singletons help ensure that a class has only one instance, which is useful for managing shared resources like a database.
Delegated properties in Kotlin allow you to reuse common behaviors like lazy loading or observing changes without repeating code.
You can create custom delegates to handle unique cases, like ensuring a property can only be assigned once, adding flexibility to your code.

Converting a website to an Android app enhances user experience, expands reach, and boosts engagement and loyalty.
Consider custom app development or no-code app builders like WebToApp.app for conversion.
WebToApp.app offers a user-friendly interface, no coding knowledge requirement, quick conversion, design templates, and affordable pricing.

The Android Jetpack Security library provides APIs to easily encrypt files and shared preferences, enhancing data security for Android apps.
The library offers a drop-in replacement for SharedPreferences and Editor classes, automatically encrypting/decrypting data to strengthen app security.
Leveraging Android Keystore, the library ensures decryption of files or preferences only after user authentication, adding an extra layer of security to sensitive data.