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October 23rd, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

Building a Budget Tracker with Jetpack Compose

Victor Brandalise used Google Sheets to keep track of my income/expenses, so he built an app using Compose that would do the same.

Google Play Console: Monetization

Bevan Steele shares a quick tour of the features the Play developer console offers in the monetization area.

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Specify your expectations for arguments and state

Marcin Moskała's article on modeling expectations in Kotlin code.

Callback to Coroutines in Kotlin

Amit Shekhar shows how to convert any Callback to Coroutines in Kotlin.

Modelling dating cards navigation with Appyx

Zsolt Kocsi shows how Appyx's approach to navigation can be used to create complex in-screen navigation behaviors.

Bounce Effect with Compose Backdrop Layer

Chen Zhang's short tutorial for how to implement a bounce on the front layer of the BackdropScaffold as an introductory wizard.

You might be creating your states wrong!

Chetan Gupta warns about a state mistake in Jetpack Compose related to State Destructuring vs State Delegates.

Compose Basics: MAD Skills Wrap-Up

Chris Arriola wraps up the MAD skills series on Compose Basics

Is ViewPump A Security Risk?

Zac Sweers' analysis of an accusation of a data leak in an open-source library.

How to group Android tests

Alex Zhukovich shows how projects which have many UI tests can be grouped in order to optimize which tests to run in various scenarios.

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Design

Introducing the M3 design kit for Figma

Jumpstart your designs with ready-to-use components and styles in Figma

Magic, utility, and redesigning Material.io

Pushing visual and interactive expression in design guidelines with Material Design 3

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

SlackComposeMultiplatform

A Multiplatform Slack Client using gRPC

kmongo

KMongo - a Kotlin toolkit for Mongo

pocket-casts-android

The Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source!

News

Get ready for Android Dev Summit ‘22

Android Dev Summit is kicking off on Monday, October 24, at 9 am PT, live-streamed on YouTube from the San Francisco Bay Area!

Building the Future of TensorFlow

The Tensorflow team shares what's in store for the future of the Tensorflow libraries.

Latest updates on Android’s custom ML stack

Google has some updates on Android’s custom ML stack - a set of essential APIs and services for deploying custom ML features on Android.

Material Design Components for Android 1.7.0

The latest releases of Material Design Components (MDC) - 1.7.0 brings updates to Material You styling, accessibility and size coherence and new minimum version requirements

Videos & Podcasts

OnBackPressed() is Deprecated!

In this short video, Charfaoui Younes shows the new way to handle the back button getting pressed in Android after the deprecation of the famous onBackPressed().

How to Automatically Fix Your Code Style With Ktlint

Philipp Lackner shows how you can use ktlint to automatically check and format your code to follow all your coding guidelines.

Firebase Summit 2022

Here are the highlights from Firebase Summit 2022

Getting started with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile

Pamela Hill gets you up to speed with the basics of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile.