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May 29th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Animated Pixie Dust Cursor and more

Maia Grotepass builds three retro animated cursor-inspired animations in Jetpack Compose.

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Common Kotlin Coroutines use-cases

Marcin Moskała presents several important use cases and reflections on good style when using Kotlin Coroutines.

KMP, iOS Developers and Production

This post by Enrique López-Mañas aims to provide the drawbacks of currently applying KMP on production from the iOS side.

Parallax Effect with SensorManager using Jetpack Compose

Suraj Sau shows how he implemented a stunning parallax effect in Jetpack Compose.

Strategies for managing Gradle dependencies

Over time, it becomes challenging to maintain dependencies in the best way possible and have them available to all the modules in the project. Saurabh Pant shares a couple of strategies to simplify this.

Gradle Kotlin DSL - Code Reuse

Eugene Petrenko shows how to reuse code between build.gradle.kts files.

Classic Snake Game with Jetpack Compose

In this post, Mukesh Solanki builds a small clone of the classic snake game using Jetpack Compose.

Splash Screen Tutorial for Android

Jemma Slater shows how to implement splash screens in new and existing Android apps, using the SplashScreen API introduced in Android 12.

Boost the security of your app with the Play Integrity API

In this blog post, take a deeper look at what the Play Integrity API nonce is, how it works, and how it can be used to further protect your app.

Implementing Dynamic Color

Google shares some tips on approaching dynamic color at scale for the Chrome Android app. Here’s what they suggest if you are considering adopting it in your app.

Lazy Grid layouts in Compose

This post by James Shvarts summarizes several ways to build lazy grid layouts.

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Libraries & Code

Componentbox

A Kotlin multiplatform library for building dynamic server-driven UI

compose-report-to-html

CLI utility to convert Jetpack Compose compiler metrics and reports to beautified HTML page.

Videos & Podcasts

A Result for Our Issues

This talk by Daniele Campogiani & Claudio Paccone explores an alternative approach using Kotlin sealed classes to model errors more explicitly and how some combinators, like map and flatmap, could help us cover all the cases.

How to reduce your Android app/library GitHub Actions costs?

In this video, you will learn how to take advantage of manual workflows and Input types to reduce your Android app/library GitHub Actions time and costs.

Introduction to Material 3 (Color Theming, Typography, Shapes)

Material 3 is the new standard for Android UIs. In this video, Philipp Lackner teaches what you need to know to start using it in your own app.

3 things to know about Modern Android Development

Catch up on the top 3 announcements from Google I/O '22 about Modern Android Development.

The Suspend & Inline Mystery

Sebastian shows how functions like `repeat`, `map`, and `filter` accept suspending functions in their lambdas, even though their signatures aren’t coroutines-aware!

Shiny new Android Studio goodness —with Chris Sinco

The coding Italians sit down with Chris Sinco to discuss the latest and greatest coming in Android Studio Electric Eel.