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December 18th, 2022

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Articles & Tutorials

Creating a Collapsing TopAppBar with Jetpack Compose

Katie Barnett shows how to use out-of-the-box Compose UI features to achieve great-looking results with an animated TopAppBar.

Android Networking with Volley

In this article, Sajjad Ali creates a small Android project using Kotlin to demonstrate the Volley library.

Everything you need to know about State in Jetpack Compose + examples

Alex Styl teaches everything you need to know about States in Jetpack Compose.

Advertise your service to over 80k Android developers

We reach out to more than 80k Android developers around the world, every week, through our email newsletter and social media channels. If you have a product or service that helps Android developers, you should reach out to us and place a sponsored post in our upcoming issues!

Using Canvas in Jetpack Compose to build a Progress Indicator

Odinas shows a practical example of how you can use the Canvas APIs in compose to make a square segmented progress indicator (SSPI).

Testing Github Actions workflows for Android locally with Docker

Lukasz Kalnik shows how it's possible to test GitHub Actions workflows locally to have a quick feedback loop.

Now In Android with Koin — part 1

In this multi-part series, Arnaud Giuliani modifies the Now In Android app with the Koin dependency injection framework.

Pew pew! Making a Game with Compose Canvas on Wear OS

Sara Hamilton and Ataul Munim took a slight detour from their usual areas of interest by making a Wear OS game using Compose for Wear OS!

Ease the development of media apps for Wear OS with the media toolkit

In this blog post, Chiara Chiappini shows how to bring your media app to Wear OS smartwatches with the help of the newly released Wear media toolkit.

Migrating from TextureView to SurfaceView (Part #1)

Mozart Louis starts part 1 of a technical guide on how to migrate away from TextureView to the much preferred SurfaceView to enable HDR playback on supported devices.

Drag and drop with AndroidX

Craig Dunn shares changes to the drag and drop sample, updated to use the AndroidX drag and drop package to show how to add this feature to your apps.

Principles & Practice in Repository Layer

Chen Zhang recently dived into some refactoring in the repository layer and noticed a few gotchas, which he shares in this article.

StateFlow and SharedFlow

Amit Shekhar in-depth look at StateFlow and SharedFlow in Kotlin

Adding dark mode to Android app in Jetpack compose: Part 1

Tristan Elliott starts a 3 part series on how to set up a dark mode in Jetpack Compose.

Design

The Best of Material in 2022

Liam Spradlin shares some of Material Design’s top moments from the past year

Libraries & Code

A Game with Compose Canvas on Wear OS

Code for "Pew pew! Making a Game with Compose Canvas on Wear OS 👾"

Jukebox

Android library that helps you focusing on your audio UI and manages independently media player under the hood

bipak

BiPaK is a Kotlin multiplatform paging library. It is inspired by Jetpack Paging 3 but tries to be less a black box regarding data flows.

Videos & Podcasts

launchIn VS collect

Lukas Lechner covers the coroutines "launchIn" terminal operator in this lesson.

Text around an image Android Jetpack Compose

Learn how to draw text around images with Jetpack Compose and the latest library by Romain Guy, Engineering Director, Android Toolkit team at Google

What is a JvmStatic Annotation in Kotlin?

Amit Shekhar discusses the JvmStatic Annotation in Kotlin

Room Database - Database Class

In this video, Charfaoui Younes shows how to glue everything created so far, from entities, DAOs, and converters, and how to provide an instance for your database, so other app components get access to it and use it to manipulate data.

The New Android 13 Photo Picker (It's AMAZING!)

Philipp Lackner shows how to invoke the new Android 13 Photo Picker

Important Kotlin Constructs

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about 5 new-ish Kotlin constructs that you might not be aware of.

MockK with Mattia Tommasone

Nicola Corti invited Mattia Tommasone to talk about MockK, a popular mocking framework for Kotlin.

Android developers: a big thank you for a great ‘22!

From the experiences you build for users to feedback you provide Google to make your tools better, they wanted to say a very special holiday thank you!

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