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November 20th, 2022

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Articles & Tutorials

AGSL: Made in the Shade(r)

Chet Haase continues his series on Android graphics, focusing on pixel shaders in Android 13.

Under the hood of Relay

Kevin Schildhorn takes a look at what code is generated by designs imported with Relay and how it compares to custom Compose code.

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Introducing: Maestro Cloud

Mobile UI testing just got a whole lot easier. Maestro Cloud is the easiest way to run your Flows in CI.

Exploring text on Canvas using drawText API

Radhika explores the new DrawScope.drawText() API in Jetpack Compose.

Improving App Performance with Baseline Profiles

Kateryna Semenova discusses Baseline Profiles and how they improve app and library performance, including startup time by up to 40%.

Just your type: Variable fonts in Compose

Alejandra Stamato describes how Variable Fonts are ready to use from Compose UI 1.3.0, for Android O and above.

Faster Compose & View interop with App Startup and baseline profile

Sagar Begale walks you through improving your app startup time for a hybrid View and Compose UI app.

Solving the Moshi enumeration problem using generics

Lucas Cavalcante shows how reified type parameters will save you from “copypasta” when parsing enums.

Large-screen design patterns

This post by Craig Dunn helps designers and developers looking to build for both foldable and large-screen devices to combine both sources of guidance to create adaptive user experiences.

Compose by example: BoxWithConstraints

BoxWithConstraints Composable lets us build adaptive layouts based on available height/width and other constraints. James Shvarts provides an example of how it can be useful.

Flutter vs Jetpack Compose: The Battle of the Decade

Ishan Khanna compares Jetpack Compose and Flutter, and list some pros and cons for each.

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Libraries & Code

Cloudy

Jetpack Compose blur effect library, which supports all Android versions.

Rebound

Beautiful and feature rich workout log app.

MastodonCompose

A multiplatform Mastodon client written in Kotlin for the amazing androiddev.social community and everyone else who enjoys #Fediverse. This project is in active development, see the description about joining the team.

combo-breaker

Romain Guy's text layout for Compose to flow text around arbitrary shapes.

News

Preparing for the Android Privacy Sandbox Beta

Google shares more details about the Privacy Sandbox Beta so that developers can get prepared.

Leading Health and Fitness Apps Roll Out Health Connect Integrations

Google is now making the Health Connect (Beta) app available for download in Google Play to give users a central place to manage their privacy settings with granular controls to see which apps have access to data at any given time.

Platform Track at Android Developer Summit '22

An overview of the final track for Android Developer Summit: the Platform Track, focused on developer features and guidance around Android 13

How Kotlin Is Going To Fix Your Pains in 2023

Ekaterina Petrova shares the first Kotlin survey’s key findings, plans to address the most popular issues, and some tips on what you can do about them right now.

Videos & Podcasts

How to add Baseline Profiles

In this episode, Ivan Morgillo and Sebastiano Poggi are joined by Rahul Ravikumar from Google, and he immensely improved the performance of their app!

THIS Is How You Measure the Performance of Your Android App - YouTube

Philipp Lackner shows how the Jetpack Benchmarking library can easily measure the performance of your app. In this video, learn how you can measure startup time and how performant your UI is.

Named Parameters & Default Arguments Under the Hood!

Charfaoui Younes examines how named parameters and default arguments are implemented under the hood in Kotlin and see some decompiled code to under what is happening exactly.

Compose vs XML – Which one should you learn as an Android Dev?

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about their thoughts on Jetpack Compose and XML for Android layouts and which one you should learn first.

Platform | Android Dev Summit '22

On November 14, the final event of Android Dev Summit ’22 dove into the latest updates to the Android platform. Watch all of the #AndroidDevSummit Platform sessions here!

droidcon London 2022

VIdeos of the presentations from droidcon London 2022