The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 131 (November 23-29)

In the new digest, we are discussing bad code, the history of creating AndroCAD, a new, almost revolutionary version of Android Studio, trends in mobile advertising, and even a new Raspberry Pi for $ 5.

How sometimes bad code and antipattern solve

Everything seems to be simple, but there were constant complaints of employees about the fall of the application when photographing. Analysis of the code showed that when the camera called the intent of the camera application, Android killed the application due to lack of resources and upon returning the result to the activation, the latter was re-created and did not contain the data needed for operation. Recreation of activation was simply not processed. Well, yes, there is configChanges * sarcasm *
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AndroCAD: Rise to Power. Electronics and Android

At AndroCAD spent 4 months of working time, stretched for a year. Profit? I’m not going to become a millionaire, the project will pay off in 2-3 years. In general, I polish Gerber and start looking for a full-time job.