What’s new in Studio 1.4And how to boost your productivity

Who am I?

Ami Goldenberg

Co-Founder & CTO at FairFly

4+ years with Android

Efficiency fanatic (lazy ass)

Rebooking your flight at a better price.

Agenda

■ New studio tools□ Theme Editor□ Vector assets□ Monitors

■ Code generation■ Productivity tips

Theme editor

■ No more fiddling around with the styles.xml!■ (well, almost)

Vector assets

■ Importing icons is going to get a lot easier

■ Converts SVG to PNGs at build time for older versions

■ Material design icons / Your own SVGs

■ Requires upgrade to Android Gradle plugin 1.4 (not available yet)

Use this in the meantime - https://github.com/wnafee/vector-compat

Monitors - What are they good for?

■ Memory leaks

■ Excessive allocations

■ Inefficient network usage

■ Performance hogs

Monitors

■ HPROF

■ GPU

■ CPU

■ Memory

■ Network

Solving perf problems

● Perf Matters Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1CrI7jw_egMwictLl6CAtgTKwTkV7p18

● Udi Cohen’s presentation - https://speakerdeck.com/udinic/speed-up-your-app-droidcon-nyc-2015

● Ran Nachmany’s presentation - http://www.slideshare.net/DroidConTLV/android-performance-matters-ran-nachmany-google

Code generation

■ Parcelable implementation

■ Permission checks

■ Live templates

■ Google Services

■ Data Binding (later today)

More android live templates here: https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/idea-live-templates

Code generation

Saved me typing 85k charactersSaved me 1086 possible bugs

Productivity

■ Productivity guide

■ Shortcuts everywhere!

■ Quick fixes

More shortcuts - https://gautam.io/work/android_studio_shortcuts/More tips - http://www.developerphil.com/android-studio-tips-of-the-day-roundup-6/

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