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July 30th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Designing a Functional Library

In this two-part series, Uberto Barbini aims to guide you through the process of creating a functional library from scratch.

Android Security: Securing your Gradle builds from baddies

Ed Holloway-George's accompanying blog post for his recent Droidcon Berlin 2023 talk “How to stop the Gradle Snatchers: Securing your builds from baddies” .

Jetpack Compose for Maps

Darryl Bayliss was pleasantly surprised to see the Google Maps team catching up with the times and releasing their own Compose library. He takes a look at how to use it.

Fall in love ❤️ with Android Studio all over again

In honor of Android Studio's ten-year anniversary, Annyce Davis lists ten features that will make you fall in love ❤️ with Android Studio.

Deep dive into Live Edit for Jetpack Compose UI

A closeup look into how the Android Studio team built Live Edit; a feature that accelerates the Compose development process by continuously updating the running application as code changes are made.

How to create a chatbot with Firebase Firestore and PaLM on Android

Alex Mamo shares a simple solution for integrating Cloud Firestore with PaLM API on Android using Jetpack Compose.

Modelling the domain layer using composable use cases

Rafa Garcia shows how composable Use Cases are a great way to effectively model the domain logic and show how they’re a scalable solution as the more Use Cases we write.

Lazy Grids for Android TV using Jetpack Compose

Joe Birch explores alternative Lazy Composables that are designed specifically for use in TV apps, how to use them, and why they should be used over the traditional Lazy APIs.

Save time with this Git pre-push hook

Ivan Morgillo shows how to combine Git hooks and Detekt in order to assure that every push operation adheres to a code quality standard.

More Accessible Graphs with Jetpack Compose - Part 1

Eeva-Jonna Panula is writing a series of blog posts to help you to build more accessible graphs with Jetpack Compose.

Following up on foldables

To make writing apps that look great on foldables and large screens as easy as possible, Thomas Künneth started an open-source library called compose_adaptive_scaffold.

Jacob Ras shares an overview of popular apps using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and resources they’ve shared about it.

Fluent and Fun Clean Architecture using Kotlin — Part 1 (2023)

Stephen Siapno revisits the fundamentals of Clean Architecture, and also delves into powerful concepts that can enhance and simplify (or overcomplicate?) our codebase.

Unifying Video Players: Compose Multiplatform for iOS, Android & Desktop

Kashif Mehmood shows how to implement Compose Multiplatform Video Players for iOS, Android & Desktop!

Gradle Cache: Your build’s best friend

Alexey Bykov shares a brief overview of caching in Gradle and addresses any confusion about it.

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Libraries & Code

compose_adaptive_scaffold

Make supporting large screens and foldables a breeze

compose-stable-marker

Compose stable markers to tell some guarantees to the compose compiler

News

Android Studio Giraffe is stable

Google announced the stable release of Android Studio Giraffe 🦒 : The official IDE for building Android apps!

Google Play services discontinuing updates for KitKat

Google is no longer supporting KitKat in future releases of Google Play services.

Introducing a new Play Store for large screens

Google is introducing four major updates to help users find high-quality large-screen apps on Play: refreshed app listing pages, ranking and quality improvements, streamlined store navigation, and a split-screen search experience.

Prepare your app for the new Samsung tablets, foldables and watches

Google lists four more reasons to ensure your app looks great across all your user’s favorite screens.

Credential Manager beta: easy & secure authentication with passkeys on Android

Google announced the beta release of Credential Manager with a finalized API surface, making it suitable for use in production.

Videos & Podcasts

droidcon San Francisco 2023

All the presentations from droidcon San Francisco 2023

Prevent Screenshots & Video Recordings: Android Studio, Kotlin

Breens Robert shows how apps like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple TV restrict users from recording or taking screenshots of their copyrighted movies and shows.

Modern Android Development with Boris Farber and Tomáš Mlynarič

Nicola Corti enjoyed the privilege of having on stage Boris Farber and Tomáš Mlynarič from Google to tell us about What’s New in Android

Android Worldwide July 2023

Playlist of all the presentations from Android Worldwide July 2023