Android Weekly - Android Weekly Issue #515 🤖

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April 24th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Kotlin StateFlow vs LiveData on Android

Jade Byfield examines the pros and cons of StateFlow and LiveData, depending on the needs of the app development team and what their goals are.

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Design

Introducing Material Symbols

Fine-tune weight, fill, optical size, and grade with the variable icon font, available on Google Fonts

Jobs

Android Developer (Toronto or Vancouver)

Konrad is looking for Android developers of all experience levels to join our mobile team building native apps for the world’s most exciting companies. Our team of 200+ developers is always looking to solve challenging problems, learn, and have fun!

Senior Android Engineer (United States, Remote)

We are looking for a talented Android Software Engineer to join our team of 10 Android engineers. Doximity is based in San Francisco, CA, but our entire Android team is remote! We embrace remote work life, using industry standard tools to collaborate.

Senior Android Engineer (Remote)

Fabulous is looking for a Senior Android Developer who wants to see their code used by millions of people around the world.

Android engineer (Milan or Remote)

With tens of millions of active users and hundreds of thousands daily downloads, we’re one of Europe’s leading app developers. We’re looking for talented and passionate native Android developers eager to help us make the best apps on the Play Store and contribute to improving our technology stack.

Remote Senior Android Engineer (Remote)

Scruff & Jack'd, two of the world's largest LGBTQ+ dating apps on Android, are looking for Senior Android Software Engineers to help build experimental features that will shape the next generation of their products and advance the online dating app industry.

Libraries & Code

SlimeKT

An article sharing platform where you can personalize, subscribe to your favorite topics, get daily-read reminders, explore new authors, and share your articles. App built using Kotlin, Dagger Hilt, Room Database, Coroutines, Flow, AndroidX Glance, WorkManager, Coil etc.

Ktorfit

HTTP client / Kotlin Symbol Processor for Kotlin Multiplatform (Js, Jvm, Android, Native, iOS) using KSP and Ktor clients inspired by Retrofit

Expressus

KMM sample project acting as a playground to illustrate what's discussed in several articles.

MyNotes

A demo todo/notes app which demonstrates the use of MVVM architecture, Navigation Component Library, Room Database, LiveData, Coroutines

Videos & Podcasts

What is the CI/CD Pipeline from an app perspective? Part 2

Mohsen Mirhoseini explains CD using a sample app and quickly demo how to set up and configure the Firebase App Distribution and GitHub Actions workflow for your Android repository.

How to do Screenshot Testing in Jetpack Compose

In this video, you'll learn how to do screenshot testing in Jetpack compose

Operator Functions With Nullable Values

You can override operators for your classes and supply your own logic. But what if you want to allow null values, both on their left and right sides?

Storing notifications using Room... Queries, Joins

The coding Italians work on the persistence layer, exploring Room.

Architecture: Entities

Garima Jain shares a tip about creating separate data models based on various Architecture layers in your project.