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@romainguy Cool, thanks. Wasn’t aware of the new version. Glad to hear dev-usable XML is on your radar. I’ll take a look.

@TMSBen Tiny boxes w/o handles to move/resize. Unpredictable behavior. Overly ornate, non-functional animations. Incomprehensible XML. (2/2)

Disclaimer: I am inclined to dislike ConstraintLayout because it’s WYSIWYG. That said, I spent about 30 minutes trying to use it. (1/2)

In N: exit multiwindow. Activity recreated. Query isInMultiWindowMode(). Returns true. Google: “Working as intended” commonsware.com/blog/2016/06/0…

@connerk Nice. Docs make the world go round. Don’t tell @SquareEng though.

This month, @TMSBen talks more NFC and gives the nitty-gritty on implementing it in your #Android app: toastdroid.com/2016/06/06/nfc…

Buddy just lost 1hr of productivity because a tab snuck in to his Python script and generated a spurious error. #JustSayNoToWhitespace #Ruby

If you look hard enough for evidence to support your point of view, eventually you’ll find it.

“[With] constraint layouts & recycler views, do we really need any other container anymore?” reddit.com/r/androiddev/c… media.giphy.com/media/Ow59c0pw…

@CurtinMartis @Get_Soundcheck is at IO? Noice.

Talking to @Hay: "I’m still suspicious. Things that mysteriously start working have a tendency to mysteriously stop working again too."

I was hoping this was the error you threw when the developer made a boneheaded error. Alas. docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/…

Thinking about overkill in software architecture. Physical architecture exceeds bare min. & follows code to withstand disaster. Makes sense.

@romannurik Any tips on using GMS FaceDetector? Getting SIGSEVS running too many at once. Have pool of them and queue images to be detected?

YouTube live streaming support for going back in time and watching at 1.5x to catch up to real time is very cool.

@chiuki bah, this is going to be like when @romainguy got quoted saying always/never use RelativeLayout 😁

Wisdom from Android Dev Summit: “A lot of people write Fragments when they really meant to write a custom View.”

MRW Chromecasting this Android Dev Summit in the living room youtube.com/watch?v=GV2Y2k…

Explore concerts in your area w/ Soundcheck for #Android coming 12/15. Sign up & get it 1st bit.ly/1S9AYry