Android 11 Developer Preview 3 brings new debugging APIs, system‑level wireless ADB, faster incremental APK installation, data‑access auditing, plus updates to CameraX, Dagger integration, Kotlin object usage, high refresh‑rate rendering, and the latest AndroidX library releases.
This article chronicles the step‑by‑step evolution of Android POS SDK integration at Youzan, from quick‑start direct SDK embedding, through componentized hardware abstraction, to slimmed‑down differential packaging, and finally to a clean AIDL‑based service‑APK architecture that reduces coupling, improves extensibility, and lowers maintenance overhead.
This article reviews the evolution of Android permission management, explains the concept of dynamic (runtime) permissions, compares it with iOS practices, and provides step‑by‑step Kotlin/Java code examples for checking, requesting, and handling permission results, along with compatibility considerations across devices and ROMs.
This article explains how to programmatically adjust and query Android device volume using AudioManager APIs, required permissions, and ADB shell commands across different Android versions, providing code examples and command generation logic for both newer (≥8.0) and older devices.
This article explains the concept, history, and implementation of Android dynamic (runtime) permissions, detailing the evolution of permission models, code examples for checking and requesting permissions, handling callbacks, compatibility across Android versions and OEM customizations, and best‑practice strategies for developers.
ProtonMail has open‑sourced its Android client under GPL‑v3, released the source on GitHub, and announced that all its mail‑access apps have passed independent security audits, with the full audit report published and a bug‑bounty program inviting external researchers.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Android dynamic (runtime) permissions, tracing their evolution from early Android versions through OEM customizations, and offers step‑by‑step guidance, code samples, and compatibility tips for developers to correctly request and handle dangerous permissions.
This article explains how to dynamically replace the Dart libapp.so library and asset resources in a Flutter Android app by modifying the AOT_SHARED_LIBRARY_NAME argument and using AssetManager reflection, enabling hot updates without publishing a new APK.
This article debunks the common belief that match_parent and wrap_content always correspond to MeasureSpec.EXACTLY and MeasureSpec.AT_MOST, explains how a parent view's spec mode and LayoutParams together determine the final MeasureSpec, and shows when UNSPECIFIED actually appears in Android layouts.
This tutorial shows how to use ADB from a PC to connect to an Android phone, enable developer options, locate an app's package name with a file manager, and execute the appropriate ADB commands to safely uninstall pre‑installed apps without rooting the device.
This guide shows how to clone the HelloWorld Android Gradle repository, build the APK with Gradle, locate the debug and release packages, and upload them to the Fir distribution platform, including all required commands and build output details.
This guide explains how to configure an Android project, write Python scripts for uploading APKs to Fir.im and Pgyer, create a Jenkinsfile with checkout, build, and upload stages, and set up Jenkins global variables and pipeline parameters for automated CI/CD deployment.
This article presents a gesture‑based human‑computer interaction system that uses Paddle Lite and MobileNet to enable real‑time control of games on Android phones, tablets, and embedded boards, detailing its architecture, data preparation, model training, and on‑device inference.
This article demonstrates how the Magpie open‑source suite can be used to migrate the Anjuke App’s “YouLiao” module to Flutter, covering project setup, hybrid engineering, module integration, UI component reuse, theme management, logging, and exception handling to improve development efficiency and cross‑platform consistency.
This article explains why reducing Android APK size is crucial for user experience, introduces the Matrix ApkChecker tool with its fourteen analysis tasks, demonstrates command‑line usage and configuration, and shows how to integrate it into a Jenkins CI pipeline for automated reporting and historical trend analysis.
This article introduces the Magpie SDK, a Flutter plugin that enables hybrid page interaction, describes the engineering challenges of integrating Flutter with native Android and iOS, outlines optimization of build processes, toolchain support, communication design, and provides guidance for contribution and future roadmap.
The article describes a system that automates Android permission dialog handling by employing template matching and SIFT‑based image recognition, discusses their limitations, outlines the end‑to‑end workflow, and proposes future enhancements using OCR and BERT for intelligent button selection.
This guide details the migration of Android apps to Android 10, covering AndroidX migration, scoped storage adaptation, handling device identifiers, and clearing cleartext HTTP restrictions, with step‑by‑step instructions, code snippets, and best‑practice recommendations for mobile developers.
This guide explains why Android projects need an automated build tool, walks through the default Gradle project layout, clarifies modern dependency configurations and conflict resolution, and details the key packaging tasks, enabling developers to diagnose sync problems, manage libraries, and build reliable APKs efficiently.
This article analyses the differences between PC and mobile Internet, evaluates how major Chinese apps adapted their launch, splash and home screens to a gray‑white theme for the Qingming memorial day, and discusses various technical solutions such as theme switching, skin packages, server‑side control and local color manipulation for mobile UI dynamic theming.
An in‑depth analysis of a long‑standing native crash on Android caused by thread‑unsafe initialization of GURL during CookieManager.getCookie calls, detailing stack traces, investigation steps, source code examination, and a lightweight application‑level synchronization fix that eliminated the issue in production.
The article explains the design and implementation of Youzan’s ZanLogger, a mobile logging platform that streamlines issue diagnosis by providing secure, efficient log collection, retrieval, and analysis features—including active and passive reporting, mmap‑based I/O reduction, dynamic symmetric key encryption, and multi‑dimensional storage—while detailing performance benchmarks and future enhancements.
DoKit 3.0, the open‑source client development assistant from Didi, introduces a revamped architecture, extensive Android and iOS enhancements, new tools such as interface mock and health testing, a web platform for product management, and detailed integration guides for both platforms.
This article explains Android's touch event dispatch mechanism, detailing MotionEvent actions, the roles of dispatchTouchEvent, onInterceptTouchEvent, and onTouchEvent, and demonstrates through code why onTouch executes before onClick and how returning true from onTouch consumes the click event.
This article walks through Android’s Activity.setContentView implementation, tracing how the framework creates a PhoneWindow, initializes a DecorView, selects the appropriate layout resource, inflates it, and finally attaches the view hierarchy to the activity’s content container.
This article explains how to build an Android Accessibility service to perform black‑box automation testing, compares its advantages and limitations with UiAutomator1.0/2.0, and provides detailed configuration steps and code examples for service setup, event handling, gesture dispatch, and practical testing scenarios.
This article explains what Dex2OAT is, why ahead‑of‑time compilation improves Android performance, the related file formats, command‑line usage, log analysis, system configuration, the internal call flow in Android Q, and practical optimization strategies for smoother app experiences.
This article details Trip.com’s comprehensive Dark Theme implementation across iOS, Android, and React Native, covering design principles, color mapping, illustration adjustments, platform‑specific adaptation techniques, code examples, and tooling that together reduced development effort while enhancing user experience and brand image.
To prevent translation errors and post‑release crashes in multilingual Android apps, the article describes a dynamic resource‑replacement system that loads external language packs via AssetManager, proxies Resources through reflection, integrates the proxy with ResourcesManager, and updates WebView assets, eliminating garbled text and long‑press crashes.
This article details the motivations, design goals, technical solutions for native iOS, React Native and Web pages, handling of large‑scale parallel development, compatibility strategies, performance measurements and future plans of the dark‑mode adaptation implemented in the 58.com mobile application.
Zucker is an open‑source Android utility that automatically analyzes APK module sizes by cloning projects, calculating unique AAR dependencies, simulating target AARs, and providing detailed reports to help developers reduce app bloat early in the development cycle.
This article explains how to set up an Android Accessibility Service to perform black‑box automation testing, outlines its advantages over standard UiAutomator frameworks, details configuration steps, code examples, limitations, and provides guidance on selecting appropriate testing solutions.
This article details the design and implementation of Ctrip's hotel Android map features, covering business background, module architecture, coordinate system handling, multithreading challenges, and practical solutions such as MVP, AsyncTask, and atomic flags to ensure smooth user experience.
This tutorial explains how to capture and analyze Douyin's hot list data on Android by setting up Charles proxy, installing required certificates, intercepting traffic, and automating the process with Appium and mitmproxy, providing step‑by‑step instructions and key code snippets.
This guide explains how to integrate WeChat OAuth2.0 login into Android and iOS mobile applications, covering preparation, the authorization code flow, token exchange, user‑info retrieval, phone‑number binding, repeated login handling, and comprehensive test cases.
The article explains Android's Monkey tool—a command‑line utility for emulator or device testing—detailing its basic syntax, the five categories of options, specific parameters for configuration, event types, constraints, debugging, hidden settings, and how to capture logs.
This article explains what an Android task is, how to manage tasks with different launch modes, how to inspect the current task stack via the device UI or adb, and provides detailed descriptions of common Intent flags and their effects on activity behavior.
This article provides a comprehensive introduction to Android's Binder inter‑process communication mechanism, covering its background, design principles, performance, stability and security advantages over traditional IPC, detailed Linux IPC concepts, the Binder driver architecture, proxy pattern, and hands‑on code examples for manual implementation.
The article examines Android cold‑start performance by comparing three process‑creation timestamps—Application <init>, Process.getStartElapsedRealTime, and /proc/self/stat starttime—detailing their origins, extraction methods, conversion formulas, and practical guidance on which to use for accurate startup measurement.
The unified online‑store product SDK consolidates Retail and Micro‑Mall modules into a reusable, Bifrost‑mediated component that accesses host‑app data via a defined interface, adopts standardized UI elements, routes through a mobile‑gateway backend, and thus eliminates duplication, streamlines maintenance, and accelerates feature delivery across Youzan’s SaaS platforms.
This article explains why UI automation testing is essential for complex mobile apps, why Appium is chosen, how to organize test cases with Cucumber, implement custom steps, locate elements using various strategies, handle common exceptions, and outlines the overall workflow and improvement suggestions.
To solve Android’s screen‑fragmentation‑induced TextView line‑spacing inconsistencies, Baidu’s team analyzed the default line‑height calculation, then created a custom LineHeightSpan (ExcludeInnerLineSpaceSpan) applied through a subclassed ETextView to enforce visual‑defined line height, delivering a simple, low‑intrusion, cross‑resolution fix.
This article introduces Appium, an open‑source cross‑platform mobile automation tool, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to set up the Android development environment, install the Appium server (both CLI and desktop), and configure Python with the Appium‑Python client, including necessary code snippets.
This article details the redesign of Ctrip's domestic flight booking module to a dual‑column layout and shares the React Native gesture, animation, and performance optimization techniques that raised frame rates from ~40 fps to ~59 fps while handling double the data volume.
This article explains how to launch an Android 10 APK by reflecting the shellCommand method of ActivityManager, detailing the changes from startActivityAndWait, the required reflection steps, implementation code, and demonstration results on Android devices.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to install the Android SDK, configure Java JDK, install Appium, and write Python code to automate the WeChat app on Android devices, including common pitfalls and practical solutions.
This article presents a comprehensive case study of integrating React Native into the 58 Car Dealer mobile application, covering background, module selection, communication mechanisms, UI development, server design, hot‑update workflow, packaging, debugging, pitfalls, and future optimization directions.
This article explains Android's Scoped Storage changes introduced in Android 10, outlines the new private and shared directory model, details compatibility mode settings, and provides step‑by‑step migration guidance using MediaStore API, Storage Access Framework, and real‑world Baidu app implementation examples.
Modular Android projects isolate business logic into independent modules, improving structure, collaboration, and maintenance, while inter‑module communication can use direct dependencies, EventBus/broadcasts, routing frameworks like ARouter, or interface‑based services, with the latter offering low coupling, high readability, and flexible, performant interactions.
This article explains why Android testing is crucial, outlines common testability problems, and provides step‑by‑step solutions using MVP architecture, interface‑based design, JUnit, Mockito, Robolectric, Espresso, and CI integration to create maintainable unit and UI tests.
This article explains what RemoteViews are, their use cases in notification bars and home‑screen widgets, provides step‑by‑step code for both scenarios, details PendingIntent handling, and dives deep into the internal cross‑process mechanisms that power RemoteViews updates.
The article explains Android’s Binder IPC mechanism, detailing how the Service Manager starts during boot, how client processes locate and register services via binder_proc, binder_thread, and binder_node structures, and describing the kernel’s transaction handling, memory mapping, and allocator data structures that enable efficient inter‑process communication.
This article details how the 58 Used‑Car mobile team built, trained, and optimized TensorFlow‑based object‑detection models for on‑device vehicle and VIN code recognition, covering data preparation, model conversion to TF‑Lite, performance improvements, engineering integration on Android/iOS, and real‑world deployment results.
Savitar, a custom Android Studio plugin suite, accelerates incremental compilation by detecting changed files with Watchman, gathering project metadata, invoking javac/kotlinc and AAPT2 for on‑demand builds, and hot‑loading Dex and resources at runtime, cutting average incremental build time from 110 seconds to 15 seconds and saving thousands of developer hours.
The article explains the evolution, advantages, challenges, and current status of Android plugin technology, then details JD's Aura plugin framework—including its layered architecture, class and resource loading mechanisms, management tools, upgrade process, and future considerations—for large‑scale mobile app development.
This article explains the motivation, design, implementation, and deployment of a Kotlin static‑analysis IDE plugin that provides real‑time code‑style checks for Android developers, covering tool exploration, AST/PSI parsing, rule creation, architecture layers, and practical installation steps.
This article explains Android's Handler and Looper mechanism, shows why creating a Handler in a non‑Looper thread triggers a RuntimeException, and walks through the relevant source code—including Handler constructors, Looper.myLooper(), ThreadLocal operations, and the required Looper.prepare() call.
This article explains how the Android dumpsys meminfo command retrieves process memory data, describes the three data sources (smaps parsing, IPC via binder/pipe, and memtrack.vendor_xxx.so), and shows how to map the raw fields to meaningful Java, native, graphics, and system memory categories for performance analysis.
This tutorial walks through the principles of Android hotfixing, explains class loaders, and provides a complete hands‑on implementation—including a buggy class, a custom Dex loader, patch creation, and runtime injection—so developers can quickly patch bugs without releasing a full app update.
The article introduces Tencent’s open‑source Hippy cross‑platform framework, outlines its developer‑friendly features and W3C compliance, and details common debugging techniques—including Chrome DevTools‑based services, jsbundle debugging, and memory monitoring—while presenting practical troubleshooting cases for UI updates, scrolling, performance, and iOS‑specific issues.
The article delivers a detailed 117‑page, eleven‑chapter overview of Youku’s full Dark Mode implementation, explaining the motivation, battery and accessibility benefits, design methodology—including color token systems and contrast hierarchy—and the coordinated technical execution across iOS and Android platforms.
This article details Youku's comprehensive journey to fully support dark mode on both iOS and Android, covering its origins, benefits such as battery savings and accessibility, design methodology, color token system, implementation tactics, and references to official platform guidelines.
This article explains the principle of Android Q’s Force Dark feature, analyzes why custom ImageView corners, text drawing, and RecyclerView ItemDecoration become over‑brightened, and provides concrete code‑level solutions using RenderNode, DisplayList and color‑transform techniques.
This article examines how memory usage affects Android app performance, analyzes system and process-level impacts, discusses GC behavior, identifies common memory issues such as leaks, image loading, and memory churn, and provides practical optimization techniques and tool-based solutions to reduce memory consumption and prevent OOM and lag.
To ensure user delight beyond basic stability, Baidu App adopts end‑to‑end smoothness monitoring that measures frame‑rate, frame length, and dropped frames using VSync‑based Choreographer callbacks, Looper timestamps, and selective stack sampling, while balancing visual richness on diverse devices and interpreting metrics across varied usage scenarios.
This article details the Anjuke Android app’s transition to a platform-based architecture, describing the background, challenges of scaling and cross‑team collaboration, the design of a unified middle layer, hybrid SDK, dynamic routing, gray‑release strategies, and the insights gained from the extensive refactoring effort.
The iQIYI mobile app boosted QR‑code scanning by redesigning the pipeline—removing YUV‑to‑RGB conversion, limiting formats, cropping preview, parallelizing frame handling, improving focus and zoom, and adding adaptive binarization with OpenCV—raising success from ~30% to 75% and cutting average latency from 2.1 s to 722 ms.
This article explains Android's Binder IPC framework, covering its layered architecture, the reasons behind its design—including object reference management, performance, stability, and security—and details the software and communication protocols that enable inter‑process communication on the platform.
This article explains how to capture and report both Java and native crashes on Android using the Eagle Eye monitoring system, detailing the use of Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler, Linux signal mechanisms, sigaction registration, alternative stacks, and native stack parsing with libbacktrace to improve app stability.
This article shares an Alibaba engineer’s comprehensive insights on wireless (mobile) architecture, covering stakeholder analysis, engineering structure, code coupling, component reuse, technology decisions, performance comparison of Flutter and Weex, tooling, stability, leadership, organization, modularization, and future expansion to help developers improve efficiency and product quality.
Youzan’s EnjoyDependence Gradle plugin dramatically speeds Android full builds—cutting compilation of their 450K‑line, Kotlin‑heavy project from over 15 minutes to under three—by managing dependencies, publishing AARs, and swapping source modules with prebuilt artifacts without altering project structure, while remaining stable and easy to adopt.
By leveraging a custom Sketch‑plugin workflow that extracts layered designs into an extensible widget and ConstraintLayout system, the Amap team automated car‑navigation UI generation, enabling rapid theme‑customisation, pixel‑perfect verification, and resource integration, cutting design effort by over 50 % and development effort by more than 80 %.
This article explains why Android projects adopt componentization, outlines its goals, presents a three‑layer architecture, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for creating modules, managing Gradle settings, handling manifests, routing, event buses, and enabling independent module execution to improve maintainability and development efficiency.
This article describes the redesign of a large‑scale Android instant‑messaging (IM) module, detailing the shortcomings of the original architecture, the new three‑layer framework, the split‑converter for parallel business‑line development, component‑based UI design, and the design‑pattern techniques used to achieve a maintainable, extensible solution.
This guide explains how to assess Android device power usage through hardware meters and the Battery Historian tool, covering setup, command‑line procedures, data collection, parameter interpretation, and methods for improving result reliability.
The article announces the new “Expert Talk” column, shares technical answers on Android dex‑based app hardening and user profiling for content recall, and promotes a giveaway event with prize details and participation instructions for readers.
By forming a dedicated team and creating the Lens SDK with a TaskManager framework that breaks startup work into independent, concurrent, and condition‑driven tasks—while delaying non‑critical work, adding fallback handling, and continuously monitoring performance—iQIYI cut its Android app launch time from roughly 1.5 seconds to under 0.5 seconds.
The article explains common Android Out‑Of‑Memory scenarios, traditional analysis methods, and introduces the Shooter offline memory analysis system that parses hprof snapshots, builds dominator trees, computes shallow and retained sizes, and visualizes reference chains to help developers locate memory leaks and OOM causes.
This tutorial walks through Android implementations of MVC, MVP (using Mosby), and MVVM (with DataBinding), providing concise explanations, annotated code snippets, and a unified demo that lets beginners quickly grasp the differences and start building each architectural pattern in just ten minutes.
The article dissects Glide’s lifecycle management by tracing how Glide.with creates a singleton RequestManager via RequestManagerRetriever, caches headless RequestManagerFragments, forwards Activity/Fragment callbacks through ActivityFragmentLifecycle to pause, resume, or clear image requests, monitors network changes with a ConnectivityMonitor, and responds to memory pressure via component callbacks, thereby integrating Android component lifecycles, connectivity, and memory management into its image‑loading engine.
This article introduces Maxim, a monkey‑based Android stress‑testing tool that supports fine‑grained scenario control, multi‑device parallel execution, blacklist/whitelist configuration, and special event handling, and provides step‑by‑step instructions with screenshots for practical use.
This tutorial shows how to repurpose an Android device—either rooted or using Termux—into a functional Linux server by installing Linux Deploy, BusyBox, and Juice SSH, configuring a distro, and connecting via SSH from other devices.
This article examines how increasing smartphone screen sizes affect one‑handed usability, presents the prevalence of right‑thumb usage, compares iOS and Android one‑handed modes, and offers design recommendations to improve layout and button placement for better single‑hand interaction.
This guide explains how to obtain, calculate, and interpret key Android performance metrics—including CPU usage, memory consumption, frame rate, network traffic, thread activity, and power consumption—using adb commands, code snippets, and best‑practice recommendations.
Scene is an open‑source Android framework from ByteDance’s Xigua video team that provides lightweight, view‑based page navigation and composition for Single‑Activity applications, addressing Activity/Fragment limitations with flexible stack management, shared‑element animations, and ViewModel‑based communication.
Meituan Waimai’s order page adopted a container‑based architecture that isolates over 30 UI modules into dynamically registered Blocks, uses a Root Block context for data distribution and command/event communication, cuts controller code and bundle size, enables parallel development, and unifies Android and iOS implementations via server‑driven configuration.
This article shares practical experiences and techniques for Android app development, covering entity class organization, graceful network data handling with Retrofit, robust repository patterns, and clean UI layering using MVVM, DataBinding, and LiveData.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to revisit the landmark Java API copyright dispute between Oracle and Google, a case that could reshape software licensing and API protection, with hearings likely postponed until next year, while the tech community watches closely.
This article introduces PyAndroidControl, a lightweight Android receiver that periodically uploads screenshots to a Python web server for image analysis and returns executable commands, enabling remote device control via cloud phones without needing Java/Kotlin or ADB on a PC.
The Probe component continuously monitors Android app memory, automatically captures trimmed HPROF snapshots when usage spikes, and analyzes them either on‑device with the HAHA library or on a server, enabling rapid OOM root‑cause localization, thread/FD tracking, and has lowered the rider app’s crash rate from 2‰ to roughly 0.02‰.
The article introduces Shooter, a mobile performance monitoring platform for Android that provides non‑intrusive, lightweight SDKs to monitor app startup, jank, network, native page, and WebView performance, explains the technical solutions, data collection methods, and showcases console visualizations and real‑world empowerment cases.
The article examines Vivo Web Service, a lightweight, extensible SDK built on the high‑performance Qidian kernel, which delivers superior dark‑mode rendering, stability, compatibility and security, and enables dynamic WebView switching, cloud proxy, JSBridge, a fast media player, and a plugin‑based architecture that supports independent app instances and future kernel upgrades.
The article outlines how integrating CheckStyle, Lint, and FindBugs with a custom Gradle plugin, applying full‑scan optimizations to collect only necessary source and class files and implementing incremental scans that target only files changed in a PR, cuts Android CI static‑analysis time by over 50 %, dropping full scans from nine to five minutes and enabling sub‑minute incremental checks.
This article compares iOS and Android virtual‑goods purchase rules, explains the 30% Apple commission, and outlines two pricing design options—shifting the fee to users or absorbing it yourself—while warning about cross‑platform balance incompatibility.
This article explains how to convert a series of images into a video on Android, compares two processing pipelines, and details the implementation of custom OpenGL transition effects—including slide, pixelation, ripple, and random‑grid—using MediaCodec and shader programs.
This article demonstrates how to leverage uiautomator1.0 for Android automation by creating a shell‑based Context, accessing PackageManager, managing SQLite databases, monitoring app activities and processes, and implementing Chinese text input through AccessibilityNodeInfo.
This article explains the principles behind Java 8 lambda expressions and the invokedynamic bytecode instruction, then examines how Android indirectly supports these features through tools like RetroLambda, Jack & Jill, and the D8 dex compiler, detailing their desugaring processes and limitations.
This article examines Flutter's hybrid stack on Android, explaining its evolution, the problems caused by multiple engines and views, and reviewing community and official solutions such as Flutter Boost's view and engine reuse approaches with code examples.
The article explains how Java 8 lambda expressions rely on the invokedynamic bytecode instruction, and how Android compensates for its absence by desugaring lambdas through RetroLambda, the now‑deprecated Jack & Jill toolchain, and the modern D8 compiler, each generating synthetic classes for runtime execution.
This article explains how to protect communication in hybrid Android applications by using native C/C++ encryption libraries, secure HTTPS handling, zip‑based Web resource protection, and anti‑tampering/replay mechanisms, providing practical code examples and architectural guidance for developers.
