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March 26th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

All about theming in Jetpack Compose

Alex Styl covers how to use themes in your Jetpack Compose app, using Material 3 Compose.

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How to Apply Stroke Effects to Text in Jetpack Compose

Radhika explores the DrawStyle API for Text Stroke Effects in Jetpack Compose.

Simplifying Redux in Kotlin: "mutating" immutable states with Mutekt

Shreyas Patil shows how the Mutekt library can help us simplify state management in Kotlin.

Get access to string resources in UiAutomator

"UiAutomator" doesn't allow us to get strings using the generated R class, but Alex Zhukovich shares a workaround.

Mitigating soft verification issues in R8 and D8

Morten Krogh-Jespersen sheds light on the runtime code verification issue and why you can safely ignore it going forward when using R8 and D8

Behind the Scenes with App Quality Insights

Rebecca Gutteridge examines Android Studio’s App Quality Insights (AQI) window which enables developers to discover, investigate, and reproduce issues reported by Firebase Crashlytics, directly within the context of your local Android Studio project.

Introducing Tone-based Surfaces in Material 3

Christian Moser introduces new surface color roles which offer more flexibility for large screens and rich color features.

Don’t Prewarm App Features

In this article, Tyson Henning teaches how prewarming affects app startup time, and how to manage it.

Creating a Circular Progress Bar with a Gradient using Jetpack Compose

Are you ready to add some colorful flair to your Jetpack Compose project? Nicolas Haan shows how to use the Canvas API and SweepGradient.

Android CI/CD part 2: Building and pushing to Play Store in GitHub Actions

In this second post, Bevan Steele shows how to use a script & running it on GitHub Actions to create a CI/CD system that gets triggered when you push to a specific branch.

Factory Factory

Jesse Wilson's musings on naming things, for when he found himself writing "WidgetFactoryFactory".

How to build a time picker with Jetpack Compose

Victor Brandalise shows how to build a 24h time picker dialog using Jetpack Compose.

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Design

Phosphor Icons

Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations — whatever, really (MIT licensed)

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Libraries & Code

kmmutils

A collection of Kotlin Multiplatform extensions that will make your code elegant & efficient

MilitaryJet

This repo includes production-ready samples that showcase a way of simply writing bug-proof Jetpack Compose UI tests. Every UI component, possible behavior, and state was tested!

redwood

Redwood is a library for building reactive Android, iOS, and web UIs using Kotlin. NOTE: Redwood is currently under development and not ready for use by anyone

FlowMVI

FlowMVI is a Kotlin Multiplatform MVI implementation based on coroutines with a few main goals

News

Media3 is ready to play!

Google announced the full release of the Jetpack Media3 library

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Videos & Podcasts

Android Bitrise CI Checks and Triggers

Dive deeper into Bitrise functionality, particularly Bitrise checks, and triggers for our builds when we open pull requests and push to our branches.

Android interview — Nicole Terc (@nicole_terc)

Nicole Terc is an Android Software Engineering Lead and in this friendly interview, she shares her story and career path.

Kotlin Code Formatting with ktfmt and spotless

Donn and Kaushik talk about one of the age old bike shedding topics – code formatting, and how you can solve it with automation and tools.

Smart Casts with Kotlin Contracts

Did you know that Kotlin can smart-cast a variable in response to calling your own functions? Dave Leeds shows how to use Kotlin's experimental Contracts feature to make that happen!

Applying colors to products using design tokens

Learn how color schemes are applied to product UI using Material Design tokens in Material Design 3

Android Studio, behind the scenes

Raluca Sauciuc joins Tor and Romain to talk about what goes on behind the scenes in Android Studio

Kotlin Basics: Ordering collections. Collections part 6

This is part 6 in the series by Stavro Xhardha on Collections in Kotlin.

The New Logcat Feature That Will Blow Your Mind!

Charfaoui Younes shows you how to use the new logcat feature in Android Studio that makes debugging your apps a breeze.

Fun design with Lazy layouts: Community tip

Manuel Perera shows a tip on how to tweak one of the Compose layouts to implement a fun and complex look and the benefits of doing it with Compose.

Compose Layouts and Modifiers: MAD Skills Wrap-Up

Simona Stojanovic concludes the MAD skills series on Compose Layouts and Modifiers, with an overview of all the presentations.

Android Performance with P.Y. (Author of Leak Canary)

P.Y. and Mitch talk about android performance, memory leaks, tools for performance monitoring, Android at Square, and his journey as an L8 android developer at Square.

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