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August 7th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Composing margins and paddings

Thomas Künneth compares and contrasts margins & padding between Views and Compose.

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The journey of Lunabee Studio with KMM

Anthony Couhier defines some objectives and steps in bringing Kotlin Multiplatform for Mobile to an app.

Gotchas in Jetpack Compose Recomposition

Justin Breitfeller discusses a few “gotchas” encountered when using Composables and how to correct them.

Write a Symbol Processor with Kotlin Symbol Processing

Learn how to get rid of the boilerplate code within your app by using Kotlin Symbol Processor (KSP) to generate a class for creating Fragments

Animating brush Text coloring in Compose

After adding a gradient to your text in Compose in the previous article, Alejandra Stamato animates it!

How to reuse data for previews in Jetpack Compose

Juan Guillermo Gómez Torres shows an easy way to centralize the data used in the Composable previews and reuse it anywhere

Singleton in Kotlin

Ishan Khanna shows how to create singletons in Kotlin using different methods.

How to use Custom Fonts with Jetpack Compose

In this tutorial, John Codeos shows how to add custom fonts to our Jetpack Compose app.

A visual guide to `ContentScale`

lex Styl shares a visual guide to help you choose which ContentScale you need along with the description from the official documentation.

How to Use Kotlin Symbol Processors on Android

Hesam Darvishiyan dives into generating boilerplate code automatically with KSP and discusses challenges and solutions.

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Libraries & Code

madewithcompose

Halil Ozercan's Compose experiments in one convenient location

gamedge

An Android application for browsing video games and checking the latest gaming news from around the world, built entirely using the Jetpack Compose.

mutekt

Generates mutable models from immutable model definitions. It's based on Kotlin's Symbol Processor (KSP).

News

Google Play Indie Games Festival: Finalists revealed

Earlier this summer, Google opened submissions, and now the finalists are revealed. Read on to see the shortlisted games!

Kotlin 1.7.20-Beta Released

The Kotlin 1.7.20-Beta release is out!

Videos & Podcasts

Ultimate Guide to Kotlin Collections Part 1

Bhavna Thacker covers Overview of Kotlin Collections from Kotlin Standard Library with Live Demo in Intellij IDEA covering List, Set and Map specific operations.

Full Guide to Dependency Scopes with Dagger-Hilt

In this video, Philipp Lackner shows you how you can avoid using the wrong scope in the wrong cases by properly scoping your dependencies.

Analyzing Firebase data with BigQuery

Learn how to analyze Firebase data with BigQuery! In this video, Andrea Wu goes through some example queries that you can also follow along with.

Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices

Listen to a chat with Alexey about Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices and his recently released book, "Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices."

droidcon Berlin 2022 presentations

Videos of all the presentations from droidcon Berlin 2022

Specials

Advice for Less Experienced Software Engineers in the Current Market

In this article, Gergely Orosz shares some advice for entry-level software engineers.