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March 19th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Locally building and pushing to Play Store using Fastlane

In this 2 posts series, Bevan Steele aims to give the simplest way possible to set up a CI/CD system for Android apps using GitHub Actions

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Mobile game performance tips from Wildlife Studios

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Privacy cheatsheet

The privacy cheat sheet is a quick reference of some of the most useful privacy APIs in Android, as well as the best practices that you should keep top of mind when you design your app

Streamlining User Actions with the Command Pattern

Saldi Sourabh describes the Command pattern and shows how it can be put to use in Jetpack Compose.

How to leverage existing Android privacy changes to increase user trust

Terence Zhang teaches about privacy best practices that can boost your app’s quality and popularity.

Bring Your Video App to Cars

It’s easy to bring your video app to cars with Google built-in, and Ben Sagmoe shows you what's involved.

WorkManager in multi-module apps

TJ details how WorkManager is set up for use in the multi-module Now in Android app.

Mastering Android App Performance: Analyzing Bottlenecks with Perfetto

In this article, Shreyas Patil demonstrates how to identify issues using Perfetto, using a simple example.

How to handle deeplinks using Jetpack Compose navigation

In this tutorial, Alex Styl teaches learn how to handle deep links in your Jetpack Compose app using the Jetpack Compose Navigation library

Organize your Views: Jetpack Compose edition

Marco Gomiero shows how he organized the codebase of MoneyFlow, a money management app written with Kotlin Multiplatform, Jetpack Compose, and Swift UI.

Jetpack Compose: Switch

Alex Zhukovich shares how to create and customize the Switch component in Jetpack Compose and how to test their state is correct.

Your guide to foreground services on Android

Android foreground services are difficult to get right. Erik Hellman explains the restrictions and what you need to do to get them working properly.

Exploring Kotlin’s Context Receivers

Simon Wirtz explores why Kotlin needs Context Receivers and how to use them.

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Libraries & Code

MusicApp-KMP

This is a music player app built using Compose Multiplatform UI that works on #Android, #iOS, #Desktop, and #Web platforms.

dataclassgenerate

DataClassGenerate (or simply DCG) is a Kotlin compiler plugin that addresses an Android APK size overhead from Kotlin data classes.

awesome-ktor

A curated list of awesome books, tutorials, courses, and resources for the Ktor framework ecosystem

News

Privacy Week for Android Developers

During the Privacy Week for Android Developers, Google is focusing on the steps that you, the developer, can take to ensure that your apps are secure and privacy-conscious.

Unlock seamless gameplay across mobile and PC with Google Play Games

Google announced they’re making cross-platform game development even easier, by continuing to simplify and improve the onboarding process for Google Play Games on PC.

Google Play Games on PC - Start onboarding today

Enable your players to experience an immersive and seamless cross-platform gameplay.

Key product updates from the 2023 Google for Games Developer Summit

Google has shared some exciting new tools and insights from Android and Google Play that will help developers like you build games for everyone.

Videos & Podcasts

Android How to Notifications Permission

The Coding with Italians team sat down with Marcel Pinto from Google to discuss the hot topic of notification permissions and privacy on Android.

How to Make an MVVM Dictionary App (MVVM & Jetpack Compose)

A full guide by Breens Robert to getting started with building android applications with recommended design patterns and design using MVVM.

TOA: Identifying And Fixing Race Conditions

In this session, Adam McNeilly digs into a race condition when marking multiple tasks as completed and looks into how we can resolve that.

Privacy Sandbox for Android

In this video, Alex details the latest on the Privacy Sandbox initiative on Android and their upcoming testing plans via the Developer Preview Programme and the recently launched Beta program.

How to Use Activity Result API in Jetpack Compose

Charfaoui Younes explores how to use Activity Result Contracts in Jetpack Compose, the modern toolkit for building native Android UIs.

How color schemes are derived

Explore how the color algorithm systematically manipulates the source color's hue and chroma to create four additional, complementary key colors, and then uses them to create a tonal palette

Compose Layouts and Modifiers: Live Q&A

Join Chris Arriola, Jolanda Verhoef, Simona Stojanovic, and Andrei Shikov to get answers to the Compose Layouts and Modifier questions you may have!

The FULL Beginner Guide for Room in Android

Philipp Lackner teaches the ins and outs of Room and local databases on Android so you can get started implementing your own.

Google for Games Developer Summit 2023

Hear from leaders across our Android, Google Play, Ads, YouTube, and Cloud teams on new solutions for game developers that make it easier to build high quality games, scale their business, and reach growing audiences around the world

droidcon Italy 2022

Playlist of all the presentations from droidcon Italy 2022

Specials