Android Weekly - Android Weekly #531 🤖

Articles & Tutorials
Modularization becomes an important tool to help ensure developers can continue to be productive without stepping on each other’s toes. Ryan Harter examines a way to do this, and how to simplify it with Dagger or Hilt.
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Pratham Arora decided to measure the performance differences between Compose and XML-based layouts.
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Niklas Lochschmidt has been developing in Kotlin for several years and shares some nitpicking about the language and standard library
Maxi Rosson explores the different ways to measure and improve your Android App launch times.
Andrey Kovalev compares Appyx, a fundamentally different approach compared to how you would do things with Jetpack Compose Navigation! In this article, he focuses on a few use-cases and compares them in practice.
Jorge Castillo shares how to write lifecycle-aware side effects in Compose.
In this article, Ankur Anurag demonstrates how to use Github Actions to automate your Android build and deployment process.
Chen Zhang summarizes 3 reasons why his team adopted Compose and thinks it is the future for Android UI development.
Enzo Lizama teaches how to use Lazy Composables in Jetpack Compose to simply display data in your app.
Ben Weiss's article on important performance metrics will introduce you to startup and frame rate metrics and bring in important data points for the rest of this series on performance.
Ben Weiss introduces another series of MAD (Modern Android Development) Skills on Performance.
Manuel Vivo examines why, if you’re building an Android app with Jetpack Compose, use the collectAsStateWithLifecycle API to collect flows in a lifecycle-aware manner from your UI.
Ji Sungbin dives into Jetpack Compose’s stability -- what it is and why it's important.
Ji Sungbin examines how the Jetpack Compose hot reload feature works in Android Studio.
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Libraries & Code
A Pokemon Card demo app using Jetpack Compose and Koin based on MVI architecture. Fetching data from the network with Ktor and integrating persisted data in Room database with usecase/repository pattern.
SealedX generates extensive sealed classes & interfaces based on common sealed classes for each different model. You can reduce writing repeated sealed classes for every different model by auto-generating based on KSP
News
Prepare your app so it looks great across the entire Android device ecosystem!
Firebase Summit is BACK and this year they are bringing the spark to the Big Apple! Join online or in-person on October 18, 2022. More details coming soon.
Jetbrains just released Ktor 2.1.0, and in addition to the new features and bug fixes, they have a few new things they’d love for you to try out.
Videos & Podcasts
In this video, Charfaoui Younes steps through the Android source code to see what is happening behind the scenes for launching one activity and examines some surprising stuff.
In this recording, Alex Styl builds a version of a Newsfeed using Jetpack Compose, authenticate via Facebook using Firebase Auth, and posts status updates using Firestore.
In this MAD Skills video, learn about important performance metrics -- data that helps you understand how an app is performing and where you should spend time and effort to improve it.
In this video, Philipp Lackner shows how you can monitor whether the user is connected to the internet or not.
This week starts a new series of videos and articles on Performance.
Donn and Kaushik talk about how many Android applications seem to suffer from the disease of over-architecture while neglecting the product (UI/UX) itself.

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View in web browser 526 July 10th, 2022 Articles & Tutorials De-mock your tests: practical recipes Jarosław Michalik considers what various scenarios would look like if mocks were replaced with

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