The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development Version 8.1 Released

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This time around, I:

Added a new chapter on the basic steps for writing Gradle plugins

Added a new chapter on compile-time code generation,
by means of a Gradle plugin and Square���s JavaPoet

Added a new chapter on updating your app���s code dynamically,
as a counterpart to updating the app���s code by publishing a new APK

Added a new chapter on Android 7.1���s app shortcuts, both the static
kind (which can be used by pre-7.1 home screens) and the dynamic kind

Added a new chapter on Java 8 lambda expressions,
enabled via the Jack compiler

Added a new section to the RecyclerView chapter
on using DiffUtil to identify and animate changes to the
contents of a RecyclerView

Overhauled the chapter on NetCipher

Added a bit more material on ConstraintLayout

Made other minor improvements and errata fixes

Also, the APK edition of the book has a new appinar on drag-and-drop.

Barring some major code drop from Google here in the waning weeks of 2016,
this is the eighth and final update for this year, adding about 500
pages of material, along with the first 24 appinars.

The next update is tentatively scheduled for early January 2017.