Google is testing a new way to keep your contacts more private on Android 17

Google is testing a new Contacts Picker in Android 17 that stops apps from automatically pulling your entire address book.

Android 17 is building a new Contacts Picker to keep your address book private

Android 17 may finally let you share only specific contacts with apps thanks to a new Contacts Picker tool. Here's how it may work.
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Google: This Kotlin tool will help your Android apps build faster

Google has announced an alpha version of its Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) tool for building compiler plugins in the modern application development language, Kotlin. KSP is compatible with Kotlin 1.4 ...
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Programming languages: Why Meta is moving its Android apps from Java to Kotlin

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...