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In Android, a client can bind to a Service running in a different process and even a different APK, but how could the bound service know the remote client is killed by the system and release the resources?

In this article, I will discuss the new Bluetooth permissions introduced in Android 12.

We have been told that the BLE can reach a throughput of 1 Mbps (or 2 Mbps with Bluetooth 5.0). But why do we always feel it’s extremely slow in practice? In this article, I will try to explain this, and how to improve throughput on Android.

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) is a cross-platform framework to share code for Android and iOS apps.

Model-View-Intent (MVI) is one of the latest design patterns for Android, which relies heavily on reactive and functional programming.

Hilt is a new Dagger-based library for Android apps, providing an easy way to incorporate dependency injection with less boilerplate code. In this article, we’ll discuss how to use it.

In this article, we present different ways Activities could use to communicate with Services on Android.

We all have used Context.getSystemService() to get a handle to a system service. But have you ever wondered how it works behind the scene? In this article, we’ll dig into the code and try to find out.

Looper and Handler are one of the key low-level components of Android. For example, the UI thread is built with them. However, only a few developers use them directly nowadays. In this article, we’ll try to understand how they work.

Shared preference is a built-in key-value store for primitive data types. It’s very easy to use, but there are some hidden mines that you may want to know.