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September 25th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Triggering Alarms Tutorial for Android

Denis Buketa teaches how to set up alarms in your Android apps using the AlarmManager API, and about the exact and inexact alarm types as well as best practices.

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Android Lint and Detekt warnings in GitHub pull requests

Yury shows how GitHub’s code scanning feature allows you to scan and display warnings and errors directly in the GitHub interface without the need for bots.

Design of Kotlin Coroutines

Aleksandar Zekovic examines what the coroutine creation process looks like.

Migrating the AOSP QuickSearchBox App to Kotlin

Over the course of 6 weeks, over 11,000 lines of Java code within the QuickSearchBox app were converted to Kotlin to showcase best practices in Android development and provide the functionality of the QuickSearchBox app with Kotlin-first in mind.

Composable Functions

In this article, Chris Arriola dives deeper into Composable functions and how you can build UI with them.

Jetpack Compose Composition Tracing

Ben Trengrove takes a look at the first alpha of Compose Composition Tracing, a new feature that allows showing Jetpack Compose composable functions in the Android Studio Flamingo system trace profiler.

Jetpack Compose Accompanist TwoPane

Kristen Halper writes about the TwoPane layout from Google’s Accompanist Adaptive library.

Rounded Corners

Ryan Harter examines how Compose UI uses sensible limits on how rounded rectangle corners are rendered.

Compose UI for iOS

Júlia Jakubcová & Tadeas Kriz describe how to use Compose for both iOS and Android UI of the Droidcon app.

Why iOS Engineers Should Avoid This Glorified KMM Technique

Derek Lee examines the expect/actual Syntax of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile and how it applies to writing Kotlin for multiple platforms.

Design Patterns and Architecture: The Android Developer Roadmap - Part 4

Jaewoong writes about design patterns, architecture, and essential solutions for Android and how they have evolved over Android’s long history.

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News

Apply for support from Google Play’s $2M Indie Games Fund in LATAM

Google has launched the Indie Games Fund in Latin America and will be awarding $2 million dollars in non-dilutive cash awards, in addition to hands-on support.

Videos & Podcasts

THIS Flow Mistake Will Lead to Bugs in Your Code

Philipp Lackner examines a Flow mistake that will lead to bugs in your StateFlow & Reactive Programming code.

Less code: Composable functions

In this episode of MAD skills on Compose basics, Chris Arriola covers the building blocks of Compose: composable functions.

Keeping your app secure with App Check

Learn what App Check is and how you can use it to keep your app's backend safe and secure.

How to create a widget for Android with Glance

Watch how to create a widget for Android with Glance by Marcel Pinto from Google

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 189: Video Conference

In this episode, Tor and Chet speak with Marc Bächinger, Toni Heidenreich, and Andrew Lewis from the Android Media team, where they work on video technologies and APIs like ExoPlayer.

Step-by-step Machine Learning Kit (MLKit) Integration in Android!

Charfaoui Younes shows how we can integrate and implement one of the ML Kit features to recognize texts with the CameraX.

App Quality Insights window in Android Studio

A quick look at the new App Quality Insights window in Android Studio

Getting Started with CameraX Implementation in Android!

Charfaoui Younes shows how to implement the CameraX API in a new Android Studio project.