Android Weekly - Android Weekly #551 ✨🤖

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January 1st, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Be careful when converting Flow to LiveData

Arkadiusz Chmura shows a potential problem we might encounter when interoperating between Flows and LiveData.

Android app shrinking beyond R8

Aleksandr Pilgun introduces ACV tools - instruction coverage and shrinking for Android apps.

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Jetpack Compose Migration: Best Practices and Strategies

Abhishek Saxena writes about the experiences and challenges he faced, the thought process behind the migration, and the design decisions he made.

Measuring JDK updates for local builds in Android projects

Iñaki Villar shows the potential improvements of updating your Android project with newer Java versions.

Navigation as state

TJ Dahunsi implements animated navigation transitions for large screens with moveableContentOf in Jetpack Compose.

Demystifying Kotlin sealed classes

Tomas Michalkevic has a quick overview of Kotlin sealed classes and several examples of how to use them.

Manual Implementation of Multiple Back Stacks

Hakob Vardanyan examines how to manually implement the navigation component and support multiple back stacks using a custom toolbar and bottom navigation.

How to handle deep links with complex paths?

Valery Petrov examines handling complex paths in deep links using new attributes: pathAdvancedPattern, pathSuffix available from Android 12.0, and nuances of its use.

Connecting Android Apps with Server using gRPC

Shaik Ahron shows how to implement gRPC, a very high-performing way to communicate with servers, in your app.

StateFlow and SharedFlow in ViewModels

James Shvarts provides a few ideas on choosing the right hot flow and a couple of examples of using them in a lifecycle-aware manner, unit testing them in ViewModels.

Jetpack Compose Desktop in Production

Alex Styl shares his experiences using Jetpack Compose Desktop to build a file-sharing app and gives you an idea of whether this technology is a good fit for your business.

Libraries & Code

SlackComposeMultiplatform

A Multiplatform Slack Client using gRPC

News

What's new in Kotlin 1.8.0

The Kotlin 1.8.0 release is out and here are some of its biggest highlights.

Videos & Podcasts

Developer Experience at Scale

Watch developer experience experts give their perspectives on when and why changes to developer needs will occur. They will also talk about how to get ahead of these changes and how to react to them when they are necessary

TOP 3 Mistakes With Jetpack Compose

Philipp Lackner shows you the 3 most common mistakes he sees people make when it comes to Jetpack Compose.

Room Database - Testing Your Room

Charfaoui Younes shows how we can test our Room Implementation, alongside some best practices and notes on how to use it in E2E and integration tests.

Optimize paywall conversion

If you are ready to explore paywall opportunities for your app, this short video from Google will explain five simple steps!

Specials