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December 11th, 2022

Articles & Tutorials

How to set up UI testing on CI

In this article, Dmytro Shuba shares the key aspects of setting up UI testing on CI.

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Designing Slot APIs in Jetpack Compose

Anton Popov describes restricting the content of the composable lambda using layoutId modifier via a new Compose concept — Slot API.

Migrate The Deprecated OnBackPressed Function

While Targeting Android 13, the OnbackPressed override function is deprecated. Dinesh describes the new APIs that replace it.

Jetpack Compose Carousel

Francesc Vilariño shows how to create a circular carousel, a set of items that the user can spin around, using Jetpack Compose.

Slowing down your code with Coroutines

Jan Vladimir Mostert shares an example of why you would want to slow down your code, and how to do it with Coroutines.

Introducing the Architecture Templates

Jose Alcérreca introduces the Architecture Templates to get you started quickly when doing an experiment or starting a brand-new app from scratch.

Impact of Dependency Tree Depth on Gradle Builds

Ishan Khanna wrote this so we better understand the impact of dependency tree depth on your Gradle builds.

UI tests with Jetpack Compose and Appium x UIAutomator

Julien Salvi explains how to validate a move to Compose with an automation framework, using Appium and UIAutomator.

Using Compose Across Platforms

Júlia Jakubcová examines the differences you’ll encounter when using Compose for different platforms.

Rotate your UI

Thomas Künneth shows how the posture of a foldable significantly influences both position and size of various UI elements.

Cold Flow vs Hot Flow

Amit Shekhar teaches about Hat vs Cold Flows in Kotlin.

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Libraries & Code

mendable

A CLI tool to convert multi-module Jetpack Compose compiler metrics into beautiful HTML reports

architecture-templates

A collection of templates featuring a layered architecture ready to be used in greenfield projects or quick experiments, following the Guide to app architecture.

komapper

Kotlin ORM for JDBC and R2DBC

ComposePhysicsLayout

A custom Compose layout backed by a physics engine

stream-log

A lightweight and extensible logger library for Kotlin and Android.

News

Android 13 for TV is now available

Google has released the newest version of Android TV OS, Android 13 for TV!

Compose for Wear OS 1.1 is now stable: check out new features!

Google has released version 1.1 of Compose for Wear OS, the modern declarative UI toolkit to help developers build beautiful, responsive apps for Wear OS.

Android Distribution Chart

Alex Styl made a website to display Android's platform version distribution percentage.

Ktor 2.2.1 (and 2.2.0) released

Jetbrains released Ktor 2.2.0/2.2.1, which introduces many new features and fixes. Moreover, with the latest 2022.3 IntelliJ IDEA version, the Ktor plugin lets you generate OpenAPI documentation for server-side Ktor applications using the dedicated intention action.

Videos & Podcasts

Live Edit Jetpack Compose

Hear Leland Richardson and Alan Leung from Google talk about Compose Live Edit in the latest Android Studio Canary.

How to Migrate Gradle Groovy to Gradle Kotlin DSL in Android Studio

Philipp Lackner teaches how you can use the more modern version of Gradle in your Android Studio projects and migrate the older Gradle Groovy step by step to Kotlin DSL.

Room Database - Data Access Object or DAO

Charfaoui Younes shows how you can create and manipulate entities using various queries with the abstraction the Room provides as DAOs; you will see how it is easy to insert, update, remove and query your table with simple annotations with enhanced compile time checks!

Advanced Kotlin Dev Day 2022

Videos of all the presentations from Advanced Kotlin Dev Day 2022

Specials