“Oh why” you think. Google already has docs on this topic. Recently I migrated to latest target sdk to meet Google Play API requirements and discovered that Google docs are incomplete and give you bad examples. I’m going to provide you with missing pieces. this guide can be useful for Developers who have apps with custom…

intro In JS world there is nice package manager called npm. It has nice command: npm version [patch|minor|major] After I tried it I immediately wanted same tool for Android. what the hell npm version does It increases your app version. For example, your app version is 1.0.0. Following table shows how command affect on version number: npm…

why For example, your application on start asks your server “hey, budy, am I outdated? What’s the latest version of myself?”, i.e. app sends GET request. Server responds with following: { "app_version": 19, "link": "https://link.to/download/your_app_v19.apk" } If user has non latest app version then app downloads latest version and offers user…

There are bunch of json parsers. Recently I discovered ason. Also I heard about moshi but not used it. So I wanted to compare them. List of parsers to compare: gson 2.8.0, jackson 2.0.1, moshi 1.4.0, ason 1.1.0. I found one worthy related article from 2015. It’s compares old versions…