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January 8th, 2023

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Articles & Tutorials

How to handle focus in Jetpack Compose with examples

This guide by Alex Styl shows you how to handle text focus in Jetpack Compose.

Quick tip: Finetune your Android Studio Welcome screen

Did you know that you can tweak the looks of Android Studio & IntelliJ's Welcome screen? Thomas Künneth shows you how in this quick tip.

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Developing for Android with a local REST API server

What if the API for your app isn't ready yet? Sanskar Agrawal shows how to build a local set of responses that mimic a live service.

Health Connect Android API

Zahid Rasheed teaches how to use the Health Connect Android API to create an app that reads and writes health data and manages health permissions.

Tooltips for Jetpack Compose: Improve User Experience

Jaewoong Eum shows you how to implement tooltips in Jetpack Compose using his Balloon library.

Everything You Need to Know About RecyclerView

Burak covers everything that you might need to understand RecyclerView.

Applying Kotlin context receivers

Yves Kalume demonstrates one of the many use cases and problems that Kotlin context receivers have come to solve by using a real-life case.

Is your app accessible? Check it out with Accessibility Scanner

Is your app usable for audiences with disabilities? Ayushi Gupta brings accessible engineering into the picture.

Unit testing on Android – test pyramids

Jarosław Michalik explains the various types of unit tests that should be considered, along with examples of each.

Adding a domain layer

Don Turner explains how he added a domain layer to the Now in Android app for improved readability, scalability, and portability.

onNewIntent in Jetpack Compose

FunkyMuse explores how to handle the onNewIntent when your UI is built with Jetpack Compose.

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Libraries & Code

seqdiag

A library for rendering sequence diagrams in Compose UI. The library supports Kotlin Multiplatform and currently supports Android and JVM targets. Both left-to-right and right-to-left layout directions are supported.

Videos & Podcasts

Lights ON with Multiplatform

Listen to Maxwell Anselm discuss everything from tea preferences to how Lutron, a leader in the luxury smart lighting industry, evaluated, adopted, and scaled KMM to meet their needs.

onStart & onCompletion Lifecycle Operators

In this video, Lukas Lechner teaches all about the lifecycle operators "onStart" and "onCompletion".

How to Create a Magic Text That Always Fits Its Container

Ever had a text that was sometimes too large to fit in its container on some devices? Philipp Lackner shows you how you can create an auto-scaling text in Jetpack Compose that will surely always fit.

Android and Kotlin Interview Questions You Don't Want to Miss!

Charfaoui Younes shares nine random Android and Kotlin interview questions that are so valuable to know.

CameraX concepts

Take a look at the CameraX Jetpack library, which is the easiest way to add rich camera functionality to your Android application.