5 posts tagged with "Android Development"

React Native developers are often in the situation of releasing their React Native apps to the Google Play Store so that Android users can download them. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to generate a React Native Release Build APK for Android, using both React Native CLI and Android Studio IDE. At Instamobile, we launched all of our React Native Templates to production (Google Play Store demos), so we are familiar with the process as well as the errors that might show up when generating a React Native Release Build APK for Android. We are documenting our learnings in this React Native tutorial, to help mobile developers ship their Android apps to production more quickly.

Are you a mobile App developer? Do you work in a team along with Web developers? Does your app depend on APIs provided by the Web team? Have you ever faced issues with unavailability of APIs to develop or test a certain feature in your app? If your answer for all the above questions was yes, then this article is for you.

In this article, we are introducing a new tool from Google which allows us to distribute mobile apps to other people, before they are published to the App Store or Play Store. This has been a challenging problem, especially for iOS. Fortunately, Firebase App Distribution tool from Firebase, makes the process of distributing mobile apps to testers, developers or colleagues frictionless.

Google Play Store is one of the largest platforms for publishing, distributing, promoting, and selling Android apps. For beginners, publishing an app to the Play Store can be a confusing and daunting task. At Instamobile, we are publishing a ton of apps to Play Store and App Store, including the demos of our fully functional React Native templates. In this tutorial, we are describing a checklist of how to publish an Android app to the Google Play Store.

In this article, we curated a list of the best Kotlin starter kits that are available as of the time of this writing. Kotlin is the new cool kid in town: Google’s new programming language for coding up Android apps. It brings up a lot of value on the table, through amazing modern features such as higher order functions and lambdas, which were not supported in Java. With Kotlin, Google is shifting the paradigm towards functional programming, which can also be seen as a response to Apple adopting Swift.

Kotlin is extremely powerful and Android developers should adopt it as soon as possible. An effective way of ramping up on Kotlin is to download an existing free starter kit, to learn practically. By getting used to the Kotlin syntax and by making a few changes to existing open-source Kotlin templates, an Android developer can quickly incorporate the new language.