In this MAD Skills article on monitoring performance I’m guiding you through best practices and provide guidance on tools that can be used to monitor app performance. Monitoring performance verifies performance moves in the right direction. App performance can either be monitored in a lab environment, before the app is…

A quick rundown of Baseline Profiles In this MAD Skills article on improving performance with Baseline Profiles you’ll learn what Baseline Profiles are and how they can be used to improve app startup and speed up runtime. Baseline Profiles help your app to start and run faster by optimizing critical…

This MAD Skills article on inspecting performance introduces you to tools and methods that help when your code’s performance. When you inspect performance you make sure that what’s happening in your app aligns with what you expect to happen. You can also watch this article as a MAD Skills video.

Before you begin to work with performance effectively, we recommend you make yourself familiar with key performance metrics. By understanding what metrics you should look at, you will make inspecting, improving and monitoring performance easier. This MAD Skills article on important performance metrics will introduce you to startup and frame…

Performance spans every aspect of Android development, and as part of Modern Android Development we’re aiming to make it more approachable and user-friendly. We have also found direct correlations between improved app performance, user satisfaction and business metrics. So, it’s time for another series of MAD Skills on Performance. We…

📝 The recent release of WorkManager 2.5.0 enables easier usage in a multi-process environment and provides several stability improvements. So if you have an app that manages multiple processes, and you need a robust way to manage background work (no more initialization errors ️️⚠), then this is the release for…

Android App Bundle is the new and official publishing format for Android applications. — This article is available as a video and linked at the end of the post. With the Android App Bundle we created a format that unlocks, amongst other things, shipping smaller apps to your users. …

This article is available as a video and linked at the end of the post. The Android App Bundle is the publishing format for Android Applications in the Modern Android Development world. Apps using it have seen an average file size savings of 15 % on user’s devices compared to…

Some tasks just shouldn’t be deferred — When you have to execute long running tasks while your app is in the background, you will encounter restrictions to background execution that were introduced with Android 8.0. These restrictions incentivize developer behavior that improves the user’s experience of the entire platform. …