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August 21st, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Domain-Specific Models

Dan Lew shares a tip: if you’re ever in a situation where a data model seems to be doing too much at once, try splitting it up into its separate domains.

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Testing Room database with Coroutines and Flows — Testing Fundamentals

Saurabh Pant considers how writing tests for our database is critical because in many cases the local database is the only source of data for the apps.

Custom Layouts, measuring policies, and BoxWithConstraints in Jetpack Compose

Jorge Castillo considers measuring children according to incoming parent constraints, deferring initial composition.

Object-oriented or functional? Two ways to see the world

Marcin Moskała examines the difference between functional and object-oriented

To Flow or not to Flow? Message subscription in Kotlin

In this short article, Alexander Nozik discusses different patterns of doing reaction subscriptions in Kotlin via callbacks and via Flow.

Unpacking Android Security: Part 3 — Insecure Communication

In part 3 of Ed Holloway-George's series on Android Security, he takes a look into the #3 threat to mobile application security as determined by OWASP, “Insecure Communication”.

MVI with state-machine: Basics

In this first post in a series on MVI, Nikolai Kotchetkov showcases the simplicity of the state-machine pattern in implementing the application logic.

Inspecting Performance

This article by Ben Weiss on inspecting performance introduces you to tools and methods that help when your code’s performance.

Jetpack Compose Accompanist — An FAQ

A lot of questions are asked about Accompanist so Ben Trengrove wrote a post to answer some of the most asked questions.

Droidcon NYC iOS app with Compose

Kevin Galligan writes about building the DroidconNYC app using KMP and with Jetpack Compose on iOS.

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Staff Software Engineer, Android (Remote)

The MyFitnessPal Android Team works in an environment in which we can all learn and grow together. We consistently deliver impactful features to our 13m+ users while collaborating on continuously modernizing the MyFitnessPal Android app codebase.

Libraries & Code

Charty

Chart Library built using Jetpack Compose and is highly customizable.

android-starter-2022

Clean Android multi-module offline-first scalable app in 2022. Including Jetpack Compose, MVI, Kotlin coroutines/Flow, Kotlin serialization, Hilt and Room.

How to move View with Keyboard in Android using Kotlin

In this tutorial, John Codeos walks you through how to animate a view when the keyboard appears or disappears.

DroidconKotlin

Kotlin Multiplatfom app for DroidconNYC Events, now with iOS UI using Compose UI

resultat

Résultat is a fork of Kotlin Result with a loading state

News

Celebrating 5 years of Kotlin on Android

Five years ago, at the 2017 Google I/O Keynote, Google announced official support for a new programming language for building Android apps: Kotlin.

5 years of Kotlin on Android — the extended interviews

This post includes some extended interview material that was left out of the announcement post.

Videos & Podcasts

Design Patterns in Kotlin Episode #2

Alexey Soshin is back to discuss some more Kotlin design patterns with Sebastian!

Inspecting Performance

Tomáš Mlynarič describes what Baseline Profiles are, how to generate them for your app and how to measure their effectiveness.

How I Debug REALLY Fast with Android Logcat

In this video, Charfaoui Younes shows how you can customize Logcat and some best practices to leverage its features to boost your productivity to debug and detect problems efficiently.

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