Android Weekly - Android Weekly #535 🤖

Articles & Tutorials
This tutorial by Alex Styl will teach you how to setup Maestro on your machine, in order to automate your UI testing.
Sponsored
Accelerate your transition to Apple Silicon through our fully virtualized, scalable M1 compute options, and build and test faster than ever.
Derek Lee lists various techniques for sharing code using Kotlin Multiplatform.
Buddhadeb Chhetri lists several Android libraries that new developers should get to know.
Sponsored
The Android vitals metrics have a big impact on your Google Play Store ranking, which ultimately can make or break your bottom line. Learn what data Android vitals provides, what the gaps are, and how you can get the visibility you need to ship the best mobile app or game!
Radhika explores Compose animation APIs that help to create cool physics-based animations.
Marcin Moskała writes about Kotlin features that allow us to make type-safe, readable, and easy-to-use DSLs.
Iván Garza Bermea guides you on how to implement the new Themed Icons feature into your app so it supports Material You in the launcher.
Andrei Belous develops an Instagram-like emoji reactions animation using Jetpack Compose.
Niharika Arora outlines why developers should consider building for Android (Go edition), a standard approach to follow while optimizing their apps and some recommendations & learnings.
In this post, Sabs takes a closer look at different types of deep links
Ben Trengrove shows you how he looked into a performance issue in Jetsnack and how he went about debugging and fixing it in Jetpack Compose.
Ben Weiss wraps up the recent MAD Skills series of articles & videos.
This post by Pierre-Yves Ricau shares a bit of hackery to be able to access an activity instance within a Hilt ViewModel.
Simon Wirtz, a software engineer who has been using Kotlin for over 5 years, writes about being productive with modern programming languages.
Chris Ward shares a small adjustment and a bit of extra knowledge that made a night-vs-day performance difference.
Place a sponsored post
Jobs
We build “You Need a Budget,” the best budgeting software and education resources around. We’re a software ecosystem that includes apps for web, Android, and iOS. We have some big plans for our Android app, and that’s where you come in! You'll help us write and maintain features in our Android app.
Chariot Solutions is a Philadelphia, PA based consulting company that strives to create a product company culture. We work hard to win exciting projects with some of the top companies in the world, while helping our employees maintain a great work life balance.
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.
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.
Libraries & Code
The well known brick game written with Kotlin Multiplatform and Jetpack Compose Multiplatform. For Android, Desktop (JVM), Web (Wasm), iOS (in progress)
Gradle Plugin that determines if modules are Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) ready. "KMP Ready" means that the code is Kotlin Multiplatform compatible
News
Google announced that the Google Play services API for TensorFlow Lite is generally available on Android devices.
Google has released the Privacy Sandbox on Android Developer Preview 5, a major milestone that will become the foundation for upcoming Privacy Sandbox Beta releases.
With the Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Beta approaching, Ekaterina Petrova is looking for more KMM content to share with developers.
Videos & Podcasts
Nav Singh covers the new improvements that Android12 brings in terms of security and privacy.
Ben Trengrove shows you how he looked into a performance issue in Jetsnack and how he went about debugging and fixing it in Jetpack Compose.
Philipp Lackner teaches the ins and outs of the keystore system and how we can use it together with ciphers to encrypt something.
Nicola Corti interviews Marcin Kuszczak, discussing how Kscript brings the power of Kotlin to the scripting world.
Kotlin Extension functions allow us to add new functions to the existing classes. Charfaoui Younes explores the decompiled code about this brilliant feature of Kotlin.

Older messages

Android Weekly #534 🤖

Sunday, September 4, 2022

View in web browser 534 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

Android Weekly #533 🤖

Sunday, August 28, 2022

View in web browser 533 August 28th, 2022 Articles & Tutorials KSP for Code-Generation Jintin writes a step-by-step guide on how to create a simple KSP plugin for generating Kotlin code. Sponsored

Android Weekly #532 🤖

Monday, August 22, 2022

View in web browser 532 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,

Android Weekly #531 🤖

Sunday, August 14, 2022

View in web browser 531 August 14th, 2022 Articles & Tutorials Building Plugable Features on Android Modularization becomes an important tool to help ensure developers can continue to be productive

Android Weekly #530 🤖

Sunday, August 7, 2022

View in web browser 530 August 7th, 2022 Articles & Tutorials Composing margins and paddings Thomas Künneth compares and contrasts margins & padding between Views and Compose. Sponsored Build

You Might Also Like

Healthy life, Meta's AI and legibility

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Neologism #25, 11.01.2024 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1665 [Medium]

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Daily Coding Problem Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today. This problem was asked by LinkedIn. A wall consists of several rows of bricks of various integer lengths and

📊 Every Smartphone I've Ever Owned, Ranked — This Tiny Smart Remote Is the Most Exciting Thing at CES

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Also: 5 Android Notification Features to Make Your Day Easier, and More! How-To Geek Logo January 11, 2025 Did You Know On March 12, 1951, a curious thing happened. In the United States and the United

Ranked | The Top Grossing Movies Worldwide in 2024 🎬

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Established IP dominated the 2024 box office, with top films mostly being sequels, spin-offs, or franchise continuations. View Online | Subscribe | Download Our App FEATURED STORY Ranked: Top Grossing

📖 Your Step-by-Step Guide to Securing AI in the Enterprise

Saturday, January 11, 2025

January 11, 2025 | Read Online Subscribe | Advertise Good Morning. Welcome to this special edition of The Deep View, brought to you in collaboration with Tines. When it comes to adopting AI securely,

🐍 New Python tutorials on Real Python

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Hey there, There's always something going on over at Real Python as far as Python tutorials go. Here's what you may have missed this past week: Iterators and Iterables in Python: Run Efficient

Life Update: Me. In Shorts. In Antarctica [Pics Inside 🧊]

Saturday, January 11, 2025

And yes, I jumped in. It taught me a lot 😅 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

Google Researcher Uncovers Zero-Click Exploit Targeting Android Devices

Saturday, January 11, 2025

THN Daily Updates Newsletter cover The Kubernetes Book: Navigate the world of Kubernetes with expertise , Second Edition ($39.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time Containers transformed how we package and

📧 Working with LLMs in .NET using Microsoft.Extensions.AI

Saturday, January 11, 2025

​ Working with LLMs in .NET using Microsoft․Extensions․AI Read on: m​y website / Read time: 6 minutes The .NET Weekly is brought to you by: ​Transform your database performance with RavenDB​:

iOS Dev Weekly – Issue 694

Friday, January 10, 2025

Hopefully you won't see that much difference with receiving this issue, but it's ALL CHANGED behind the scenes! 😱 ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌