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 | December 2020 | | | What's your Modern Android Development (MAD) score? Find out! | | | | This year we shared the Android team's recommended set of development tools, APIs, language, and distribution technologies to help you be more productive and create better apps. We call these recommendations Modern Android Development (MAD). As an end of year surprise, we've created a plugin for Android Studio so you can see (and share) just how modern an Android developer you are. Get your scorecard now! | | If you're interested in boosting your MAD score, check out the MAD Skills video series to learn our tips and best practices for app development. | | | | |  | | New version & naming for Android Studio & Android Gradle plugin | | We released Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) on the canary channel, together with Android Gradle plugin (AGP) version 7.0.0-alpha01. We are adjusting the version numbering of Android Studio and our Gradle plugin by decoupling the Gradle plugin from the Android Studio versioning scheme, and bringing you more clarity to which year and IntelliJ version Android Studio aligns with for each release. | | | | | | | 2020 Android development highlights | | As this year reaches an end, we wanted to thank you for building experiences on the Android platform, and for contributing to the ecosystem. This year we focused on building and improving development tools and frameworks to help you be more efficient and productive, and we shared our recommendations and best practices to help you create better apps. The following are some of this year's highlights: | |  | | Android 11 | | This year's release of Android featured people-centric conversations, device controls, and privacy updates. Read more about all of the changes, and watch the Android 11 playlist to learn how you can get your apps to take advantage of Android 11's capabilities. | | | | |  | | Android Studio | | Android Studio 4.1 includes a new Database Inspector for querying your app's database, support for navigating projects that use Dagger and Hilt for dependency injection, and better support for on-device machine learning. Read the announcement and watch the video to learn about all of the changes. | | | | | | |  | | Kotlin | | This year we created new beginner training content, and made our existing content more useful and accessible. We declared coroutines as the official recommended solution for async task management, and partnered with JetBrains to release Kotlin 1.4. | | | | |  | | Google Play | | This year, we redesigned the Google Play Console to be easier to use and more helpful, added new publishing features to help you release with confidence, and made improvements to the Android App Bundle. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did you find this newsletter useful? | | | | | | | | |
