Android Weekly - Android Weekly #554 🤖

Articles & Tutorials
In this installment, Thomas Künneth shows you how to create a Jetpack Compose app that honors folds and hinges, distinguishes between portrait and landscape mode, and takes advantage of large screens.
Sponsored
Use Stream's world-class Chat APIs & SDKs to design an immersive messaging experience where web and mobile app users can come to connect. Try Stream for FREE today!
Mark Murphy muses that perhaps ActivityPub is another area of opportunity, where Android developers can be distinctive
Most Android developers use Gradle every day, but do we understand what it does and how it works? Ban Markovic writes this article to help us better understand.
Sponsored
Context-switching in and out of Play Console costs your team time and unnecessary headache. Manage everything you need to do for your Android rollout — without setting foot in Play Console.
Francesc Vilariño considers a navigation solution different from Google's suggestion, while still using the Navigation library from the Android Architecture Components.
This article is the third part of the series on fonts in Jetpack Compose. In this part, Mikołaj Kąkol looks into the magical world of shaders.
Marcin Moskała writes about how Kotlin improves on for loops by making them safer to use.
Aleksander Jaworski shares his recommendations for improving your tests to help with catching regressions & bugs a lot faster.
How can we still preserve our API keys within our application, but also hide them when we upload our code to our repository? Read on to find out.
Kaaveh Mohamedi explains how to manage bottom navigation in a Jetpack Compose app, and mentions some common issues you may face along with the solution needed.
In this article, learn about BasicTextField and how it allows far more customization than TextField.
Yuichi Araki looks at Google's recommendation that all apps use an edge-to-edge layout, meaning that it draws behind the system bars to use the entire width and height of the display.
Pierre-Yves Ricau examines the root cause of a leak when using the Picasso library, discusses how to fix it, and what could change in Picasso to help avoid this common mistake.
Arkadiusz Chmura offers a quick tip on how in Android Studio Electric Eel the location of the embedded JDK is changed.
Alex Zhukovich examines the top 5 features of the new logcat viewer in Android Studio Dolphin (2021.3) and Electric Eel (2022.1).
In this tutorial, Alex Styl teaches about the UX of Android runtime permissions and how to implement required and optional permission flows using Jetpack Compose. Common questions around permissions are also answered.
Place a sponsored post
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!
Libraries & Code
An android app to download ebooks from Project Gutenberg, built with Jetpack Compose.
Videos & Podcasts
Mohsen Mirhoseini shows how to set up your Android app to switch to PiP mode with some extra user experiences bonus on top.
Philipp Lackner shows the common mistakes people make when implementing nested scrolling in Jetpack Compose with LazyColumns.
In this video, Lukas Lechner takes a look at some of the most common intermediate flow operators.
Firestore has a new COUNT(*) function and David East will teach you everything you need to know in just 4 minutes.
Charfaoui Younes discusses what state flow is in the Kotlin Flow API, how we can use it, and what some particularities are to this API
Tor, Romain, and Chet were joined by Siyamed Sinir and Sean McQuillan from the Android Text team to talk about, well, text.
Nicola Corti talks to Davide Imola and Lorenzo Pieri directly from the Schrödinger Hat community.
Specials
We followed thousands of Android developers to the Android dev Mastodon server. So if you are on Mastodon, say hello 👋

Older messages

Android Weekly #553 🤖

Friday, January 20, 2023

View in web browser 553 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

Android Weekly #552 🤖

Sunday, January 8, 2023

View in web browser 552 January 8th, 2023 Android Weekly Updates Android Weekly x Mastodon We followed thousands of Android developers to the Android dev Mastodon server. So if you are on Mastodon, say

Android Weekly #551 ✨🤖

Sunday, January 1, 2023

View in web browser 551 January 1st, 2023 Articles & Tutorials Be careful when converting Flow to LiveData Arkadiusz Chmura shows a potential problem we might encounter when interoperating between

Android Weekly #550 🤖🎄

Sunday, December 25, 2022

View in web browser 550 December 25th, 2022 Android Weekly Updates Android Weekly Stickers Official Android Weekly sticker packs and individual stickers, handmade by one of our co-founders. Android

Android Weekly #549 🤖

Sunday, December 18, 2022

View in web browser 549 December 18th, 2022 Android Weekly Updates Android Weekly x Mastodon We followed thousands of Android developers to the Android dev Mastodon server. So if you are on Mastodon,

You Might Also Like

Import AI 399: 1,000 samples to make a reasoning model; DeepSeek proliferation; Apple's self-driving car simulator

Friday, February 14, 2025

What came before the golem? ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

Defining Your Paranoia Level: Navigating Change Without the Overkill

Friday, February 14, 2025

We've all been there: trying to learn something new, only to find our old habits holding us back. We discussed today how our gut feelings about solving problems can sometimes be our own worst enemy

5 ways AI can help with taxes 🪄

Friday, February 14, 2025

Remotely control an iPhone; 💸 50+ early Presidents' Day deals -- ZDNET ZDNET Tech Today - US February 10, 2025 5 ways AI can help you with your taxes (and what not to use it for) 5 ways AI can help

Recurring Automations + Secret Updates

Friday, February 14, 2025

Smarter automations, better templates, and hidden updates to explore 👀 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

The First Provable AI-Proof Game: Introducing Butterfly Wings 4

Friday, February 14, 2025

Top Tech Content sent at Noon! Boost Your Article on HackerNoon for $159.99! Read this email in your browser How are you, @newsletterest1? undefined The Market Today #01 Instagram (Meta) 714.52 -0.32%

GCP Newsletter #437

Friday, February 14, 2025

Welcome to issue #437 February 10th, 2025 News BigQuery Cloud Marketplace Official Blog Partners BigQuery datasets now available on Google Cloud Marketplace - Google Cloud Marketplace now offers

Charted | The 1%'s Share of U.S. Wealth Over Time (1989-2024) 💰

Friday, February 14, 2025

Discover how the share of US wealth held by the top 1% has evolved from 1989 to 2024 in this infographic. View Online | Subscribe | Download Our App Download our app to see thousands of new charts from

The Great Social Media Diaspora & Tapestry is here

Friday, February 14, 2025

Apple introduces new app called 'Apple Invites', The Iconfactory launches Tapestry, beyond the traditional portfolio, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly. Creativerly The Great

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1689 [Medium]

Friday, February 14, 2025

Daily Coding Problem Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today. This problem was asked by Google. Given a linked list, sort it in O(n log n) time and constant space. For example,

📧 Stop Conflating CQRS and MediatR

Friday, February 14, 2025

​ Stop Conflating CQRS and MediatR Read on: m​y website / Read time: 4 minutes The .NET Weekly is brought to you by: Step right up to the Generative AI Use Cases Repository! See how MongoDB powers your