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What’s new in Jetpack

What’s new in Jetpack by Florina Muntenescu
[https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/whats-new-in-jetpack-1891d205e136]

[https://t.me/android_broadcast/1864]

👉 Hilt (https://dagger.dev/hilt/) (Alpha) – новый рекомендованный DI фреймворк. Работает поверх Dagger и имеет интеграцию с основными компонентами Android приложения, а так же библиотеками Jetpack, такими как ViewModel и WorkManager
👉 Paging 3 (https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/paging/v3-overview) (Alpha) – новая версия библиотеки для пагинации. Теперь написана полностью на Kotlin, работает поверх Coroutine и поддерживает ошибки, повторы, обновления, а также хэдеры и футеры
👉 App Startup (https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/app-startup) (Alpha)- библиотека для инициализации компонентов при запуске приложения
👉 WindowManager (https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/window) – библиотека для помощи в поддержке устройств с нестандартными форматами, например складываемые смартфоны

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First Look at Kotlin 1.4-M2: Standard Library Improvements

[https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/05/1-4-m2-standard-library/]

We keep working on Kotlin 1.4 and the next preview 1.4-M2 is just around the corner. Right now we’re ready to unveil some improvements from this preview; in this post, we’ll get you acquainted with the standard library changes.

Here are some key improvements in the standard library in 1.4-M2:

Changes to the existing API like updating signatures and introducing new constants
More functions in the common library
New functions for Arrays and Collections
Property delegation improvements
Even though Kotlin 1.4-M2 hasn’t been released yet, we’ve deployed its early version to the Kotlin playground so that you can try everything you find in this post. The code samples in this post run on the new version as well.

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