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February 26th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

How to use Gradle Managed Devices with your own devices

Yury demonstrates how to use your own device farm to launch tests remotely in the same manner as Firebase Test Lab, and parallelize execution between multiple devices.

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Convert Android App to Use Material 3 Design

Vincent Tsen's step-by-step guide to convert a very simple Jetpack Compose Android app to use Material 3 design.

Jetpack Compose and WindowSize Classes

Eric Donovan's summary of what the modern android developer needs to think about when developing UIs that are expected to work across a large range of screen types.

Advanced Layout concepts #4

Simona Stojanovic zooms in even more on the Layout phase and constraints and cover them from another perspective — how to harness their power to build custom layouts in Compose.

Accessing Composables from UiAutomator

Tomáš Mlynarič shows how you can use UiAutomator in Jetpack Compose apps

Effortlessly Add Pull-to-Refresh to Your Android App with Compose

Katie Barnett shares how to add pull-to-refresh to your Composable.

Inline functions in Kotlin

Arkadiusz Chmura explains in detail what Kotlin inline functions are and what problems they address, and presents some practical examples and tips.

Jetpack Compose: DropDown Menu

Alex examines the Material and Material3 Compose implementations of the dropdown menu as well as the cascade library, which simplifies building nested pop-up menus.

Exploring Jetpack Compose for Android TV: Carousel

Joe Birch takes a look at a composable that is built specifically for TV experiences, the Carousel.

How to automate the creation of your UI testing flows using Maestro Studio

Alex Styl teaches how to use Maestro Studio to automate the creation of your testing flows as well as run them to automate your UI testing.

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Libraries & Code

TravelApp-KMP

JetBrains Compose Multiplatform UI App (Android, iOS, Desktop, Web). MVVM - Kotlin MultiPlatform (KMP)

auto-dagger

Auto Dagger allows you to automate some Dagger setup using Hilt.

kotlinx-kover

Kover - Gradle plugin for Kotlin code coverage tools: Kover and JaCoCo

Fragula

Fragula is a swipe-to-dismiss extension for navigation component library for Android

cascade

cascade builds nested popup menus with smooth height animations. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for both PopupMenu and DropdownMenu

News

Kotlin Libraries Author Experience Survey

If you're the author of a published Kotlin library or are working on one now, share your feedback in this JetBrains survey

JetpackComposeVersion.com

A page by Alex Styl to quickly check what the latest version of Jetpack Compose is and its dependencies. You can also sign up for email notifications.

Videos & Podcasts

Android Contributor to Google Dev Library

In this tech talk, Google Dev Library contributor Jaewoong Eum discusses Pokedex, which follows Google's official Android architecture guidance and demonstrates modern Android development with Hilt, Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack (Room, ViewModel), and Material Design based on MVVM architecture

RSS-Parser with Marco Gomiero

Nicola Corti is back in the Kotlin world with Marco Gomiero and his library RSS-Parser. Marco discusses how this library helped him to get started in the OSS world and helped him land his first job!

Implement a Lazy Staggered Grid In Jetpack Compose

Philipp Lackner shows how you can implement a staggered grid in Jetpack Compose with lazy loading behavior

TOA: Material 3 Toolbar In Jetpack Compose

In this session, Adam McNeilly implements a date picker using Material 3 Dynamic Theming.

Announcing TensorFlow Lite in Android

Thomas Ezan shares how the Android ML team is dedicated to making TensorFlow Lite on Android the ideal platform to deploy on-device Machine Learning.

Under Kover. Digging into coverage tools with Leonid Startsev

Leonid Startsev briefly reviews how modern JVM coverage tools work, then talks about the specifics of handling Kotlin code in such tools. And finally, he takes a look into Kover — a new coverage tool for Kotlin.

Advanced layout concepts

In this episode, Simona Stojanovic takes a look at more advanced layout concepts and how they can help you take your design implementations to the next level.

Problems YOU DON'T KNOW about Data classes in Kotlin!

Charfaoui Younes considers potential issues using data classes in Kotlin

A Touch of Multiplatform - Episode #4

A Touch of Multiplatform team talks with Meetup’s Colin Lee and Annyse Davis about how their teams evaluated multiplatform options before going all in with KMM.

Specials