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May 8th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Using MotionLayout in Compose

In this blog post, James Shvarts goes over an example of using MotionLayout in Jetpack Compose by animating several widgets in relation to each other.

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Room presence detection app for Android

You probably have Bluetooth devices around your house, so Grzegorz Matyszczak thought why not leverage them to sense what room you're in with this Android implementation.

Hack to save time when working with Jetpack Compose

Vinay Gaba shares an Android Studio configuration that can help save you a lot of time in the long run when writing Compose code.

Kotlin Flow: The easy way to deal with local and remote data

Florent Blot illustrates a simple way to deal with local and remote data using Kotlin Flows.

Downloadable fonts with Jetpack Compose

Pankaj Rai describes how the upcoming Compose 1.2.0 will support downloadable fonts, similar to what's already available for Android Views.

CI/CD Pipeline for Flavoured Android Apps using Fastlane and Github Actions

In this article, Kashif Mehmood automates a tedious workflow using Fastlane to build and share apks/aabs to Firebase App Distribution.

EventListener is Like Logging, But Good

Jesse Wilson considers defining an event listener to make your systems observable. It’s a lot of power in a simple pattern.

Accessibility in a dual-screen application

Bianca Miron dives into how to enhance accessibility for View-based layouts, especially on dual-screen devices.

Spring 2022 Compose Hackathon Series

Zach Klippenstein writes daily about the work he's doing for the Compose team's internal hack week, where he's expanding Compose’s text editing APIs to be more flexible.

Testing Kotlin coroutines on Android

Google has released a new Kotlin coroutines testing guide. In this guide, you'll learn how to use the testing APIs new in kotlinx.coroutines.test 1.6, as well as the best practices you'll need to test your Android code.

How to use Kotlin Multiplatform ViewModel in SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose

Aleksey Mikhailov shares a simple example of how you can build a ViewModel from common code and use with Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI

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Design

Roboto … But Make It Flex

Google’s most popular font gets customizable with the launch of Roboto Flex

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.

Libraries & Code

ComposeCG

Compose computer graphics playground

PowerSpinner

A lightweight dropdown popup spinner, fully customizable with an arrow and animations for Android.

News

Learn Android with Jetpack Compose (no programming experience needed!)

Google has released the first two units of Android Basics with Compose

eBay gets a 4.7 Google Play rating with tablet optimization

Matthew Mossman, Android engineer for eBay, shares how he and his team optimized the eBay app for large screens and discusses the impact they saw in their customer’s engagement and experience on the tablets

Kotlin 1.7.0-Beta Released

The first preview of the 1.7.0 release is out. Introducing Kotlin 1.7.0-Beta!

Videos & Podcasts

Destructuring Declarations

Sebastian shows how with destructuring declarations in Kotlin, you can create multiple variables from a single object, all at once.

Top 5 Android Developer Interview Tips

Bhavna Thacker covers Top 5 Android Developer Interview Tips that helps a developer to prepare and shine in an Interview.

Sentry SDK with Manoel Aranda Neto and Roman Zavarnitsyn

Nicola Corti is back to talking about Monitoring, Profiling and Instrumentation with folks from the Sentry SDK.

Play Store

In this episode hear from Jon and Andrew of the Play team about the Play Store app.

Gradle for Beginners

Philipp Lackner covers the core concepts of Android Gradle. That includes different build types (debug, release, etc.), product flavors and their use, build variants, and how to make use of different source sets.

Android Worldwide April 2022

Playlist of all the latest new presentations released in April!