5 posts tagged with "Android Development"

React Native developers eventually need a signed Android release build. For Google Play, the normal production artifact is an Android App Bundle (.aab). APKs are still useful for local testing, sideloading, and some distribution workflows, but Google Play release planning should start with the app bundle.

This guide explains the modern release build flow for React Native Android apps.

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.