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Harmony — Multiprocess SharedPreferences

Android developers are familiar with SharedPreferences. It provides a convenient way to store primitive key-value pairs. There’s no need to create a database or write boilerplate code to do I/O for files to store data. It’s as simple as: The Multiprocess Problem with SharedPreferences For most apps, the above code works perfectly fine. The…

Android App Development

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Harmony — Multiprocess SharedPreferences
Harmony — Multiprocess SharedPreferences
Android App Development

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Aug 9, 2021

What Happened to my Subclass Android Application?

Note: Custom Class and Package names were changed to be more generic. Somehow, my subclass Android Application was causing the following crash… Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.Application cannot be cast to com.example.app.MyApp This made no sense. The class MyApp was declared in the AndroidManifest.xml. It ran on every app launch on…

Android

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What Happened to my Subclass Android Application?
What Happened to my Subclass Android Application?
Android

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Life360 Engineering

·Feb 24, 2021

How we reduced the Life360 Android App Size

Like any good tech article let’s start with a small story… For the last few years, we have put in a lot of work into the Life360 app, with the release of a new UI back in 2019, continuous work with our collision detection, and new safety features. Even with…

Android App Bundle

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How we reduced the Life360 Android App Size
How we reduced the Life360 Android App Size
Android App Bundle

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Life360 Engineering

·Jul 8, 2018

Understanding Battery Drain — Android

Many of us have been in this situation: Phone is charged to 100% in the morning, and by lunchtime, it is close to 30%. Now we’re upset and we look for the app responsible. Sometimes, we see that it was an app that was used excessively (Facebook, Netflix, some news…

Android

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Understanding Battery Drain — Android
Understanding Battery Drain — Android
Android

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Pablo Baxter

Pablo Baxter

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