Android Weekly - Android Weekly #578 🤖

Articles & Tutorials
Pierre-Yves Ricau discusses why mobile app teams should primarily track user-centric performance metrics that represent the experience of using the app.
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In this blog post, Piotr Prus shares how to update state in Jetpack Compose without freezing your UI, even with hundreds of elements on your screen.
Should a developer test the private methods in their codebase? The decision is up to you, but Govind Dixit shows how it's possible.
Caner Kaşeler focuses on using Lottie animations in Jetpack Compose and managing them according to business logic.
Mário A M Martins provides a recommended set of well-known technologies and architectures to achieve a feature that a server updates in real time.
exyte examines how Compose Multiplatform is the next stage in the development of Multiplatform for the Kotlin language after KMM.
Jake Wharton announces the release of Redwood 0.5 “beta”. Redwood is Cash App’s take on multiplatform mobile client UI using Compose.
Mark Murphy writes some suggestions about Android's font scaling, and how Android 14 supports non-linear font scaling.
Using Kotlin Coroutines, but have a library implemented with callbacks? Bevan Steele shows how to convert them into coroutines.
Sanskar examines Health Connect, Google's new system for safely storing users' health data on-device, with full control and transparency over access.
Victor Brandalise shows you how to use Filament to render a model created in Blender, using Jetpack Compose.
News
As the Kotlin community and ecosystem are expanding – and the demand for Kotlin developers is on the rise – we’re looking to equip computer science educators with the relevant tools and up-to-date resources necessary to meet this need.
The first experimental version of the Kotlin Notebook plugin for IntelliJ IDEA is now available! This post will offer insight into the plugin’s functionality and use cases.
The Kotlin 1.9.0 release is out and the K2 compiler for the JVM is now in Beta. This release contains new language features as well as improvements for Kotlin Multiplatform and Kotlin/Native.
Videos & Podcasts
A quick tip from Jov Mit: how to use the Extract parameter refactoring.
In this video, Philipp Lackner teaches about services and foreground services on Android and how you can use them.
Kotlin 1.9.0 stabilizes several language features, including data objects, the 'entries' property for Enum classes, secondary constructors for inline value classes, and the "range until" operator.
In This Mini series, Charfaoui Younes teaches about Compose Side Effects API. Get to know all the options you have to create outstanding compose UIs.
Kotlin Notebook is a new plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate that combines the power of Kotlin with the concept of “notebooks”.
Meet Ahmed Tikiwa, an Android #GDE from the Netherlands. Ahmed explains how the GDE program has evolved to expand the ways you can become a GDE.

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Android Weekly #577 🤖

Sunday, July 2, 2023

View in web browser 577 July 2nd, 2023 Articles & Tutorials No Mocks Allowed Marcello Galhardo shows how to focus on making our System Under Test (SUT) genuinely testable. Migrate RecyclerView to

Android Weekly #576 🤖

Sunday, June 25, 2023

View in web browser 576 June 25th, 2023 Articles & Tutorials Announcing FoldAwareColumn in Accompanist Adaptive Kristen Halper and Jossi Wolf announce the release of FoldAwareColumn, release as

Android Weekly #575 🤖

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

View in web browser 575 June 18th, 2023 Articles & Tutorials App Size Metrics - Continuous monitoring of App Size, Part 1 App size is one of the important metrics which impacts the conversion rate.

Android Weekly #574 🤖

Monday, June 12, 2023

View in web browser 574 June 11th, 2023 Articles & Tutorials WhatsApp's Circular Reveal with Jetpack Compose Victor Brandalise shows you how to build the circular reveal animation WhatsApp uses

Android Weekly #573 🤖

Sunday, June 4, 2023

View in web browser 573 June 4th, 2023 Articles & Tutorials Simplify auth using Credential Manager API Learn how to simplify auth journeys using Credential Manager API Sponsored A better way to

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