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Happy Monday! I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was a blast Last week was awesome in the Android Dev community. Read on and see!

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Android 12 Maybe? 1-Handed mode
Android 12 Maybe? 1-Handed mode
According to this tweet Android 12 might be getting a one handed mode! This feature exists on some platforms and it would be awesome to have in stock Android.
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🟣 Twitter Space: Android Dev Hang Recap
We have a recap in the form of a thread today. Join us this Friday week for another Android Dev Hang! I’m sure we’ll be talking Pixel 6 and whatever else is happening!
Matt McKenna
Quick Recap of Today's @androiddevhang @TwitterSpaces.

@madona_syombua and I talked with @YasmineEvjen about Material Design!
📚 TL;DRs
Android Studio 2021.2.1 Chipmunk 🐿
Android Studio 2021.2.1 Chipmunk 🐿
  • 🦊 Arctic Fox goes Stable
  • 🐝 Bumbee goes Beta
  • 🐿 Chipmunk goes Canary
I’m really excited for this new Canary version of Android Studio. The feature that makes me the most excited is Gradle Managed Virtual Devices. This will be handled with a new emulator device type called Automated Test Devices (ADT)
An ADT is a special emulator build for performance! Here’s how:
  • Removes pre-installed apps that are typically not useful for testing your app
  • Disables certain background services that are typically not useful for testing your app
  • Disables hardware rendering
Basically this will allow a CI environment to run tests on real devices!
androidstudio.googleblog.com
A Comprehensive Guide to Android 12’s Splash Screen API
A Comprehensive Guide to Android 12’s Splash Screen API
This guide is excellent. Racka goes through every step to create a beautiful splash screen with animation using the new APIs. It’s a long read but if you follow along you will have an amazing design at the end!
medium.com
🛠 For Your Toolkit
Insomniac: IntelliJ Plugin
Insomniac: IntelliJ Plugin
This IntelliJ Plugin prevents your system from sleeping while a long-running task is active in the IDE.
If you’ve ever started a task and went to grab a coffee while it ran, only to find that your computer went to sleep corrupting the execution, then this plugin is for you!
plugins.jetbrains.com
⭐️ Answer to Last Week's Question
Last week’s question we posted a poll on Twitter!
Thanks to everyone who answered! Here are the results!
true, false, true is correct!
true, false, true is correct!
@theapache64 and @V9vek did a great job explaining the correct answer in the replies.
  • Getting map[1] returns the Foo(1) and Foo(1) is a Foo.
  • Getting map[0] returns null because there is no entry with that key and null is not a Foo.
  • Getting map[0] returns null but since null is a Foo? this returns true!
Try it yourself in this Kotlin playground.
🎃 Introducing Jetpack Jack O' Lantern
Jetpack Jack O' Lantern
Jetpack Jack O' Lantern
Carve better pumpkins faster with Jetpack Jack O’ Lantern
Jetpack Jack O’ Lantern is a modern toolkit for carving native UI into pumpkins. It simplifies and accelerates Jack O’ Lantern UI development on pumpkins. Quickly bring your pumpkin to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive designs.
Download this template and carve your Jetpack Jack O’ Lantern today!
Specs:
  • 19.4 inches / 49.4 cm
  • Download and resize to your needs
Tools Needed:
  • Carving Knife
  • Candle
  • Lighter
⚠️ Please proceed with care and caution.
If you make this please share on Twitter and tag me!
👋 Want to Contribute!?
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Remember to stay sweet and have a great week!
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- Matt 👻
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