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May 7th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Functional Error Handling in Kotlin, Part 1

This article by Riccardo Cardin focuses on the functional approaches and introduces the Arrow library, looking at Absent values, Nullables, and Options.

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Better design for bigger screens

How Material You supports beautiful, efficient tablet and foldable experiences

How to optimize your Android app for large screens (And what NOT to do!)

This article provides tips and is a great starting point as you optimize your app for large screens.

Media transcoding and editing, transform and roll out!

The Jetpack Media3 1.0 release includes new functionality in the Transformer module for converting media files between formats, or transcoding, and applying editing operations.

How to implement Biometric Authentication in Android using Kotlin

Biometric authentication allows users to access their apps using their unique characteristics like fingerprint, face, or iris recognition. John Codeos shows how to add support to your Android app.

Statistically Rigorous Android Macrobenchmarks

This article by Pierre-Yves Ricau leverages statistics fundamentals to suggest a scientifically sound approach to analyzing Jetpack Macrobenchmark results.

Gradle Cheat Sheet for Android and KMP Projects - Plugins

This series by Kevin Schildhorn provides some definition of commonly seen code in Gradle builds, and act as a cheat sheet you can reference in the future.

Blazing fast Composables

This week Alex Styl goes through all about optimizing your composable functions.

An Immersive Preview Card for Android TV with Compose

Joe Birch decided to revisit an old project and create a Composable that will play a short preview of the currently selected item.

Discovering Material3 for Android — SearchBar

Renaud Mathieu takes a closer look at the different components and features of Material 3, examining the Material3 SearchBar.

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Libraries & Code

PreviewCard

Show live previews of video content using Jetpack Compose for Android TV

Compose-Rich-Editor

A Rich text editor library for both Jetpack Compose and Compose Multiplatform, fully customizable and supports the common rich text editor features.

glove-android

glove-android is an Android library that provides an interface for using popular GloVe word embeddings.

AndroidAnimatedNavigationBar

AnimatedNavigationBar is a navigation bar with a number of preset animations written in Jetpack Compose

News

Material Design at I/O ‘23

Get the latest Material 3 updates and online content at Google’s annual developer conference

KotlinConf 2023: Watch the Recordings

KotlinConf 2023 session recordings are now available

Get ready for I/O ‘23: start planning your sessions!

Google I/O 2023 is just a week away, kicking off on Wednesday May 10 at 10AM PT with the Google Keynote and followed at 12:15PM PT by the Developer Keynote

Improving Consistency of Background Work on Android

Google is announcing deeper partnerships with Android hardware manufacturers to help ensure APIs for background work are supported predictably and consistently across the ecosystem.

Videos & Podcasts

Create an EPIC Android Studio Plugin

Ivan Morgillo and Sebastiano Poggi create a custom plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.

Add Inputs to GitHub Actions Workflows

In this GitHub Actions Tutorial, learn how to add user inputs to workflow_dispatch triggers in your GitHub Actions workflow.

Synthesising a Database with Kotlin

In this episode of Talking Kotlin, learn how Synthesized uses Kotlin together with custom DSLs and OpenAPI work like magic!

Discover Hidden Recursion Features in Kotlin

Charfaoui Younes delves into the lesser-known recursion features of Kotlin that can assist you in crafting code that is both succinct and effective while avoiding stack overflow errors.

Intro to Collection Builders in Kotlin

Dave Leeds shows what collection builders are, and why you'd want to use them. And as a bonus also take a look at immutable collections!

Custom Layouts In Jetpack Compose - Crash Course

Philipp Lackner shows how you can build your very own layouts in Jetpack Compose.

Building a GraphQL in Jetpack Compose using Clean Architecture

Daniel Atitienei teaches how to use GraphQL with Clean Architecture in Jetpack Compose.

Functional Error Handling in Kotlin, Nullables and Options

This video is a guide to functional programming in Kotlin

Specials