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January 15th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Celebrating the release of Android Studio Electric Eel

Roger Hu examines a small announcement tucked away in the Android Studio Electric Eel release notes about a new parallel project import feature.

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How to Avoid Dependency Conflicts in Android Multi-Module Apps

Managing dependencies can be especially challenging when you have multiple modules in your project. Waseef Akhtar shares a way to help keeps things simple.

Creating testing-friendly Kotlin services with http4k

Ivan Sanchez checks how http4k uses the simplicity of Kotlin to make services easy to test without compromising on the developer experience

Mastering The Gradle Dependency Tree

The Gradle dependency tree is the backbone of your Gradle builds. Ishan Khanna provides details for tracking all your dependencies, as well as optimizing your builds.

Building a Language Learning App with Compose – Part 1

Victor Brandalise's first article in a new series where he’ll be sharing his journey building a language learning app with Jetpack Compose.

How to make a complete app / site association with Universal Links

Universal links work for both websites and apps. Antoine Thibierge shows how to implement support for them in your Android app.

Applying a 3rd Party Gradle Plugin as a Composite Plugin

This post shows you how to wrap a 3rd party Gradle plugin in your own plugin, so that you can interactive with it programmatically.

How to screw up foldable and large screen UIs

Thomas Künneth gives some real-world examples of how an app's UI could be improved for larger screens and foldables.

What is the use of Scaffold in Jetpack Compose and is it necessary?

Alex Styl goes through what the benefits of using Scaffolds are, what different types of Scaffolds exist, and decide whether they are a good fit for your use cases.

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Libraries & Code

webrtc-in-jetpack-compose

This project demonstrates WebRTC protocol to facilitate real-time video communications with Jetpack Compose.

compose-multiplatform-file-picker

A multiplatform compose widget for picking files with each platform's Native File Picker Dialog.

News

Extending the Android SDK

Google has built a new Extension SDK framework for you to integrate with the Modular System Component APIs, and they've released the first public version of the Extension SDK (Extension Level 4).

Android Studio Electric Eel

The Android Studio team announced the latest stable release of the official IDE for building Android applications: Android Studio Electric Eel (2022.1.1)!

Kotlin 1.8.0 Released

Here's what's new in Kotlin 1.8.0

Videos & Podcasts

How does the .asLiveData() operator work?

Lukas Lechner explains the differences between the asLiveData operator compared to the collect and launchIn operator.

Testing Android App 2023

In this Code With the Italians episode, Googlers Jose Alcerreca and Alex Vanyo showed us how to integrate and use the latest testing library for Android

What's new in Android Studio - Electric Eel

Android Studio Electric Eel contains the new Logcat UI enabled by default, App Quality Insights, improvements to Jetpack Compose previews, new options for emulators and devices, and more!

Implementing a Toy Example in Compose Desktop!

Charfaoui Younes creates a toy app with Compose Desktop to illustrate some capabilities of the API.

Billing in Firebase

Understand how billing works on Firebase: the difference between Firebase's pricing plans, how to set up your billing account and switch between plans and how you can estimate and have more control of your costs.

This Is How You Schedule Alarms on Android with AlarmManager

Philipp Lackner shows how you can schedule alarms in Android using AlarmManager

The Pressure to Ship. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about the fear of shipping, some impostor syndrome and how it contributes to uncertainty and doubt in your capabilities as a software developer.

NEW Kotlin 1.8.0 – Standard Library Updates

In this video, Anton unpacks the updates for Kotlin 1.8 standard library.

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