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Since joining Microsoft late last year, I’ve interacted much less with Google. It’s not that there is any disagreement or uncooperation between the two companies, it’s simply that I’m too busy 😂.
Microsoft is a no-overtime company on principle, but AS I realized I had too much catching up to do, I took up a lot of my free time.
But I still try to squeeze in some time for Google events. Back in March, for example, Google hosted a four-week Challenge for Jetpack Compose. I was so interested in Jetpack Compose that I joined the competition, but only for the first week of the challenge: writing a doggie adoption app.
The prize for this challenge is a limited edition Jetpack Compose superhero trophy made of Lego bricks. The trophy goes to the first 500 people who successfully complete the challenge and submit an entry.
It took me about a weekend to complete the challenge and submit it to GitHub:
Github.com/guolindev/a…
In fact, I started working on this project quite late, so I didn’t expect to make it into the global top 500. I was just trying to learn about a small project with Jetpack Compose.
To my surprise, in April I received an email from Google telling me I had won:
In fact, on that day, several of my friends in my group received notification of winning the prize from Google. It seems that many things are not as difficult as imagined, as long as you are willing to take the first step.
About a month later, I received a gift from Google in the US. Although the shell was damaged during transportation, I still think it is a good prize:
Unfortunately, I may not be able to play with blocks now, so I will give this toy to my daughter when she grows up.
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Also one day in April, I received another email from Google, this time from my old friend Ben:
He told me that Google is currently running a series of events called AndroidDevJourney, which solicits developer stories from Android Developers around the world every month and posts them to the official Android Developers Blog. Asked if I’d be interested in coming to the AndroidDevJourney event in May.
I didn’t think I’d have time to go to Google’s various developer conferences this year, as I usually do, but I was willing to participate in the AndroidDevJourney event, so I said yes.
And it was very easy, I just had to answer three questions they listed:
- How did you become an Android developer?
- Share one of your favorite daily development tips
- If you could go back to when you were learning Android, what advice would you give your younger self?
I thought about it and wrote down some things I wanted to say.
When Google received my response, they were very forthcoming. They didn’t even suggest any changes, and they approved it with a warning tweet on their official Twitter account:
Finally, at the end of May, my story was published on the Android Developers Blog:
Want to know exactly what I shared? Visit the following website to see the full article:
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Finally, a few days before WRITING this article, I received some good news from Google.
Google sent out an email to all Gdes saying that they wanted to create a new Library site that would showcase great open source projects using Google technology, and they wanted to invite them to participate.
I submitted all three open source projects THAT I am currently maintaining (Litepal, PermissionX, Glance), but after submitting, I didn’t hear back from them. I had forgotten about it.
I received an email from Google a few days ago telling me that the three projects I had submitted had been successfully entered into their new site.
The address of this new site is:
devlibrary.withgoogle.com/
Google also helped me create an author page:
Speaking of these open source projects, I really haven’t had much time for them this year. But don’t worry, I haven’t stopped maintenance yet, I just update it slowly. Hopefully, in my next original post, I’ll be able to talk about what’s been added to the new version of PermissionX.
See you next time.
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