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June 12th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Shipping to Production

How you ship your code to production in a way that is fast and reliable is what differentiates a powerful team. Gergely Orosz discusses several aspects of how to make this happen.

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News

Android 13 Beta 3 and Platform Stability

Google has released the third Beta of Android 13, taking us into the final phase of our cycle where we’re focusing on polish and performance.

Kotlin Multiplatform User Survey: Q2 2022

Do you use Kotlin Multiplatform in your projects? The Kotlin Multiplatform User Survey is now open.

KotlinDL 0.4 Is Out

A new version of KotlinDL is available with new models, the experimental high-level Kotlin API for Pose Detection, new layers and preprocessors contributed by the community members, and many other changes.

Videos & Podcasts

Full Guide to Lazy Grid in Jetpack Compose

Philipp Lackner shows you how to easily implement a lazy loading grid in Jetpack Compose with either a fixed amount of columns or making it adaptive to adapt the columns to the width of the parent.

Live Edit for Jetpack Compose

Takeshi Hagikura shares an experimental Android Studio feature called Live Edit. With Live Edit, changes you make to your composables show up instantaneously on your emulator, physical device, and Compose Preview

Learning Jetpack Compose with Vinay Gaba

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to Android GDE Vinay Gaba about learning Jetpack Compose.

Android Developers Backstage: Live Edit

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Alan and Esteban from Android Studio about the new "Live Edit" feature recently launched at Google I/O in the Electric Eel canary build.

What's New in Kotlin 1.7

Kotlin 1.7.0 has been released. It unveils the Alpha version of the new Kotlin/JVM K2 compiler, stabilizes language features, and brings performance improvements for the JVM, JS, and Native platforms.

What's new in Lazy Layouts in Jetpack Compose

Bhavna Thacker covers the basics of different Lazy Layouts in Jetpack Compose and what's new in Jetpack Compose 1.2 Beta.

Accessibility testing

Here's what to look for when testing for accessibility and summarize the different ways to approach testing

What Happens if You Add `null + null` in Kotlin?

Seb ponders about what happens when you add null + null, and why it returns a string!