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September 4th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Exploring Data Store — A New Way of Storing Data in Android

If you’re currently using SharedPreferences to store data, Hardik shares why you should consider migrating to DataStore instead.

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The tutorial shows you how to add an in-app messaging feature with just a few lines of code, as well as the flexibility and customization options of SDK.

Lambda expressions

Marcin Moskała's in-depth examination of Lambda expressions, which are a shorter alternative to anonymous functions.

Testing Composable in Jetpack Compose Android

In this article, Saurabh Pant gets started with writing tests for composable UI.

An Investigation of Dependency Management Libraries for KMM

In this second article, Pamela Hill discusses the dependency injection and service locator patterns, explains how they differ, and details the most prominent Multiplatform Mobile libraries and approaches to implementing these patterns.

Introducing: Maestro — Painless Mobile UI Automation

Leland Takamine announces the open-source project Maestro, the easiest way to automate UI testing for your mobile app.

Monitoring App Performance

Ben Weiss guides you through best practices and shares tools that can be used to monitor app performance.

Experimenting with Jetpack Glance

Marcel Pintó highlights some of the experimental tools just released for Jetpack Glance.

Introduction to deep links

Sabs shows a bit of context on what is a link, goes over each type of deep link and discusses some security notes.

How TikTok Enhanced its Video Social Experience on Android

TikTok's team was able to significantly improve their overall performance by following Android’s performance guidance, and employing their deep understanding of development tools such as Android Gradle Plugin and Jetpack libraries.

How to make Expandable List with Jetpack Compose

John Codeos shows how to make an expandable list using Jetpack Compose.

I Know Nothing in Kotlin

Colin examines the usage of Kotlin's Nothing.

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Jobs

Senior Android Engineer (Remote work - NZ, AU and APAC)

MEGA is looking for a Senior Android engineer with a deep understanding of the SOLID principles, unit testing, and refactoring, to join our global team.

Sr. Android Engineer (United States - Remote)

Our Mobile Team at Jenius Bank is currently interviewing Engineers (Senior/Staff Level) for a Full-time, Remote opportunity to support Android Development. Our app is using 100% of the latest technologies including, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, MVVM and Material Design v3.

Mobile Engineer (Android/ Kotlin) (Remote North America)

We are looking for great Developers to join our small remote team. We promise you technical challenges, fun people, and the possibility to have an impact. Our revenues are EXPLODING (400 % growth yearly) and the roadmap is full. A great time to join us!

Senior Android Platform Engineer - AOSP (United States, Remote)

As a Senior Android Platform Engineer, GoDaddy Payments, you will create world-class payment experiences for merchants and customers on GoDaddy Smart Terminals. As a key member of the PoyntOS team, you will modify the AOSP and develop Android system applications for our payment terminals.

Android Software Engineer (Remote )

At Scandit, we develop real-time computer vision solutions for smartphones, wearables, and robots that combine modern machine learning approaches with computer vision. To expand our engineering team, we are looking for an Android Software Engineer.

Libraries & Code

maestro

Painless Mobile UI Automation

News

The winners of the Indie Games Festival 2022

Google Play announces the winners of the Indie Games Festival and the Accelerator class of 2022

Videos & Podcasts

Kotlin For Beginners - What are Kotlin Coroutines?

In this introduction to Kotlin, Charfaoui Younes presents on Kotlin Coroutines.

Monitoring Performance

Ben Weiss walks you through monitoring app performance. Learn tools, products, and best practices to keep your app performing at its best

Android 13

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk about some of their favorite new features and changes to the new version of Android, both for users and developers.

Don't Do These Fatal Mistakes With a Multi-Module Architecture

If you build an app with a multi-module architecture, there are many things you can do wrong. Philipp Lackner tells you about the 2 biggest mistakes you can do.

Introduction to deep links: Part 1

The deep links ecosystem is filled with lots of information and use cases. Nevertheless, you might be interested in just the basics of deep links, like “What can you do with them?”, “What is a deep link?”, “What is a link?”, “Who are deep links for?”.

Per-app language preferences

Learn how to provide users with the ability to select per-app language preferences.

Environments and Emulators

Marina covers Firebase environments and emulators, with a deep dive into one of the scenarios where it can be useful to use multiple Firebase projects.

Indie Games Festival from Google Play

The Indie Games Festival is a celebration of the best indie games on Google Play.