Android Weekly - Android Weekly #566 🤖

View in web browser

566

April 16th, 2023

Android Weekly Updates

Android Weekly on LinkedIn

We're now on LinkedIn too! Say Hello 👋

Articles & Tutorials

Random Musings on the Android 14 Developer Beta 1

Mark Murphy digs through the API differences report, the high-level overviews, and even the release blog post to find out what the first Beta has in store for us.

Sponsored

Build Chat App with Stream’s Jetpack Compose SDK

Simple integration, flexibility, customization, AND a free plan? Build your own chat app along with Stream’s Compose Chat Messaging Tutorial today!

Now In Android with Koin — part 4

Arnaud Giuliani shows how to use Koin Annotations instead of Koin DSL to configure all the app’s components injection.

Kotlin Coroutines Recipes

Explore a collection of practical Kotlin Coroutine recipes that can help streamline your development process.

Synking all the things with CRDTs: Local first development

So you want to build a local first application that works both offline and online seamlessly with no interruption to the end user? CharlieTap introduces the concept and a new library called Synk.

KotlinConf 2023: A Look at the Opening Keynote

Alina Dolgikh writes up all the information shared during the KotlinKonf '23 opening keynote.

5 ways to prepare your app build for Android Studio Flamingo release

Boris Farber shows how to update your app build files to accommodate five important build behavior changes when you upgrade to Android Studio Flamingo and Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 8.0.

Adding Compose to Existing Espresso Tests

Sam Edwards shows how you can combine both Espresso and Compose in an Android instrumentation test.

Place a sponsored post

Advertise your service to over 80k Android developers

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!

Jobs

Google’s account switcher with Jetpack Compose

Victor Brandalise shows you how to build the account switcher Google uses in its applications, using Jetpack Compose.

Libraries & Code

redukks

A set of simple, extendable components to build Redux-like architectures for Kotlin Multiplatform

synk

A Kotlin multiplatform CRDT library for building offline/local first applications.

hlc

A Kotlin multiplatform implementation of a hybrid logical clock

News

Bring your IOT apps to cars

To deliver seamless experiences in cars, Google is now enabling developers to bring their internet of things (IOT) apps to cars

Reduce uninstalls for your app with auto-archive

To reduce unnecessary uninstalls and help users successfully install new apps, Google has introduced a new feature: auto-archive.

What's new in multiplatform Jetpack libraries

The multiplatform Collections and DataStore libraries are now alpha releases. Annotations, a core Jetpack library, is now also available for multiplatform.

Android 14 Beta 1

Google has released the first Beta of Android 14, building around our core themes of privacy, security, performance, developer productivity, and user customization while continuing to improve the large-screen device experience on tablets, foldables, and more.

Kotlin DSL is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds

Google is switching the default language for build scripts to Kotlin.

Android Studio Flamingo is stable

Google has announced the stable release of Android Studio Flamingo🦩

Gradle 8.1 Release Notes

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.1.

Videos & Podcasts

Firebase Authentication with Jetpack Compose

In this tutorial, Arfin Hosain demonstrates how you can use Firebase Authentication with Jetpack Compose. The tutorial is for beginners who are trying to understand Firebase and use Compose.

Implement Photo Picker using Jetpack Compose

In this video, Daniel Atitienei teaches how to create a photo picker using Jetpack Compose.

Master Kotlin Flow Testing with Turbine: A Step-by-Step Guide!

Charfaoui Younes teaches how to test Kotlin Flow using Turbine - a powerful testing library that simplifies the process of testing asynchronous code.

Building Your First Wear OS App with Jetpack Compose

Philipp Lackner shows how you can get started with Wear OS development using Jetpack Compose and build your first stopwatch app.

Mastering the Art of Switching Careers in Tech with Dan Lew

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to long-time friend Dan Lew about his recent career switch from Android developer to TypeScript/Node.js/Progressive Web App Developer (and more).

CameraX CameraProvider basics

This video explains how to implement Preview and ImageCapture with CameraX’s ProcessCameraProvider class.

KotlinConfersation'23

Developer interviews from KotlinKonf `23

What's new in Android Studio Flamingo

Android Studio Flamingo version 2022.2.1 is now available for download on the stable channel. In this version, you can find improvements for building beautiful UIs, new features that help you debug and inspect your apps and more!

KotlinConf’23 - Keynote

JetBrains proudly welcomes you to KotlinConf'23