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February 19th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Layout modifiers in Jetpack Compose

In this article, Jorge Castillo shares his in-depth knowledge about how Layout Modifiers work under the hood in Jetpack Compose.

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Libraries & Code

RSS-Parser

RSS Parser is an Android library to parse any RSS feed. With RSS Parser, you can fetch plenty of useful information from any RSS channel, be it a blog, magazine, or even a podcast feed.

compose-clock

Clock face implemented using Jetpack Compose. Inspired on the Particle Clock winner project of the Flutter Clock challenge

News

Next generation IDs for better Play Games Services

To further enhance the privacy of users and their multi-platform gaming experience, Play Games Services (PGS) is introducing next generation Player IDs.

Bringing the best of Chrome to Android developers and users

To help developers provide a better in-app web experience, Chrome launched Custom Tabs, which are now supported by most major browsers on Android. Now they're announcing two new features that bring the best of Chrome to Android developers and users.

API desugaring supporting Android 13 and java.nio

Google announced the release of a new version of API desugaring based on Android 13 and Java 11 language APIs.

Feature Engineering in the Google Play Store

Let's take a peek behind the curtains to learn what it takes to design the serving infrastructure of the world's largest Android marketplace, the Google Play Store.

Gradle 8.0 Release Notes

Gradle 8.0 is out with breaking changes, bug fixes, and improvements to the Kotlin DSL, buildSrc more similar to included builds and configuration cache performance benefits on first use.

Fast and scalable channels algorithm

Roman Elizarov notest that the fast and scalable channels for Kotlin Coroutines have been merged!

Videos & Podcasts

RSS-Parser with Marco Gomiero

Nicola Corti is back in the Kotlin world with Marco Gomiero and his library RSS-Parser for, you guessed it, parsing RSS feeds.

Constraints and modifier order

Modifiers in Compose can be chained and the order in which we do so matters. But how exactly does it matter? Jolanda Verhoef goes beyond intuition to reason about modifier chaining and how it influences the sizes of our composables

The ULTIMATE Permission Handling Guide

In this video, Philipp Lackner shows how you can build a scalable permission handling system in Jetpack Compose for Android.

Introduction to drawing in Compose

In this video, Rebecca Franks teaches all about how to draw something custom in Compose. After getting to grips with working in Compose, you might want to start drawing your own custom components. This video will cover how to get started with custom drawing.

Animating Canvas With Jetpack Compose

In this live stream recording, Adam McNeilly adds a custom stat comparison component to the Pocket League app & shows how to animate it.

Android Developers Backstage: Mainlining

Chet and Romain talk to Jeff Hamilton and Anton Hansson from the Mainline team about "modular system components", and the new SDK extension framework which lets developers access them.

Custom graphics and animations in Jetpack Compose

In this episode, Ivan Morgillo and Sebastiano Poggi look again at Google's JetLagged app and had Rebecca Franks to talk about how those animations work.

Kotlin Basics: More collection operations. Collections Part 4

This week Stavro Xhardha examines the plus and minus functions for collections, grouping elements by a certain condition and some other extra operations that come in handy.

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