Android Studio Giraffe, K2 Compiler, Compose Live Edit and more

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this article learn about Android Studio Giraffe, K2 Compiler, Compose Live Edit and more.

I have worked with Design Systems for some time now and one of the biggest issues is not with building it but rather how do you make everyone use it. If you are a large organization with multiple verticals, it becomes a gargantuan task aligning everyone. This guide represents some straightforward steps which you can take to ease this adoption.

I really hope this tutorial will be useful and help you save time and make your path to Android development more consistent. I will also share useful resources that I myself have used and continue to use for my learning.

Code coverage can be a helpful metric under specific contexts and scales; refactoring is one. If you are refactoring code, looking only at code coverage as a metric is one-dimensional and can inspire false confidence and a false sense of security.

Since many books can confuse you, I have only selected seven best and must-read books from the software architect's perspective, with a couple of System design and Software development books.