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Android Developers Backstage
Episode 185: Play Store
May 3, 2022
Jon and Andrew from the Play team discuss the major refactoring of the Play Store app, including the adoption of Jetpack Compose. They highlight the improvements made to architecture, network fetching, UI rendering, and data storage. The podcast also covers tech debt issues, adoption of Kotlin and MVVM architecture, handling accessibility challenges, app performance improvements, and considerations in migrating code.
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- The Play Store team opted for a major rewrite and adopted Jetpack Compose to improve performance and simplify code.
- The migration process presented challenges but increased productivity and attracted interest from potential new engineers.
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Reasons for the large changes in the Play Store application
The Play Store team decided to make significant changes to their application due to the old codebase ageing and the need to envision how they want the Play Store to look in the next 10 years. They opted for a major rewrite to adopt modern frameworks and technologies and improve various aspects of the application.
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