The dev bytes cited in the article are specifically focused on Android development. Android provides some interesting framework classes that help with making re

The dev bytes cited in the article are specifically focused on Android development. Android provides some interesting framework classes that help with making requests efficiently to the network, both from a power and speed standpoint. A lot of these APIs are really underused (e.g. SyncAdapter) in apps right now, so Google clearly wants more devs to use it since it requires less thinking.