Compat libraries are great. They allow us to work with newest Android APIs, without thinking (much) about your minimum API level. Instead of thousands of devices, you can reach billions. With nearly no changes in your code. But sometimes, they're not so great…
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Android Things is an alternative Android version, announced at Google I/O 2015, and released as a first developer preview in December 2016. Its purpose is to develop embedded IoT devices, with a known and widely documented Android ecosystem basis.
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With the Android M SDK (API 23), Google removed the Apache HTTP Client library. It was deprecated since API 22, and Google recommanded to use `HttpURLConnection` instead since API 9. While the classes are still bundled in Android 6 ROMs, it won't be long until we see them completely go away.
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When writing an application, you probably want it to run on most platforms possible. Having a game on Android is great, but what about this weird friend with his iPhone? It would be nice to be able to play with him. Of course there are cross-platforms technologies like [Cordova](http://cordova.apache.org/) or [Titanium](http://www.appcelerator.com/titanium/). But sadly, you can't achieve both a perfect user experience and great performances with this kind of tools. And even if you could: what about reusing code on the back-end? We need to share some code.
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Introduction to RecyclerView
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When you have to manipulate audio or video on Android, being used to open-source software, you have a single name which comes directly to you: FFmpeg. However, FFmpeg is a C software, meant to be used as an executable, and not officially supporting Android.
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When you want to display a dialog, you don't only need a context, you need an activity context. From an activity, displaying a dialog is pretty straightforward:
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