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Everybody knows about the Google Assistant, available on most Android and iPhone devices. As for “Hey Siri”, the well known “Ok Google” has entered common language. We probably all have already used it at least once if only to try it. However, the scope of its field of action and implementation seems to be mysterious for us developers. At least, it was for me until recently. Is it only a mobile feature? Can we use it in our application? What are the possibilities of interactions?…

Material Components is the (not so) new library made by the Material team to replace the old support design library. It provides components to apply Material Design in your application with ease. Among these components, you can find the famous FloatingActionButton, the CardView or the BottomSheet. But there are also some less known, nonetheless powerful, components. And one of them is the MaterialShapeDrawable.

You are an adept of Android App Links and you find wonderful being able to suggest your users to install your application or to redirect them from your website to your application with specific data relative to their requests? Well, forget (almost) everything you know. Since Google I/O last week, Google released to developers what comes as the biggest news in the Android development world: Instant Apps. Instant Apps are applications that can be executed instantly, from anywhere, without having to be installed on your…