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October 29th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Android Fragmentation state

Kirill Rozov takes a look at Android fragmentation, the reasons for its appearance, and why it is no longer relevant.

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The Power of Koin: The Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) Dependency Injection Framework

Olwethu Pissot shows how well the Koin dependency injection framework integrates with Kotlin Multiplatform code.

How I Fell in Kotlin’s RunBlocking Deadlock Trap

Sam Cooper shows how the blocking coroutine builder can kickstart your coroutine journey, but you need to know the risks—and the alternatives.

Understanding what affects Jetpack Compose recomposition

Sherry Yuan explores what @Stable, @Immutable, ImmutableCollection, and PersistentCollection mean, and how they affect Jetpack Compose recomposition.

Harmonizing Modifiers in Jetpack Compose: A Tale of Flexibility and Usability

Mahmoud Afarideh explores embracing the idea of applying modifiers with the provided Modifier parameter.

Migrating an Android app to iOS with KMP — Part II: Data sources and migrations

Igor Escodro continues the series, diving into data sources, which libraries to use, and how to keep the data integrity during the migration.

Material Design Components for Android 1.10.0

James Williams lists the mix of functional changes and updates in Material Design Components for Android (MDC-Android) 1.10.0.

Upgrade your Dynamic Links with Firebase Hosting

Pavel Ryabov shows an easy migration path for the deprecated Firebase Dynamic Links that can be done in just a couple of minutes.

Seeding Firestore Data in Emulator

Tomas Radvansky demonstrates a technique to prepopulate Firestore collections with data for testing and development purposes.

Regional Preferences in Android 14

Alex Zhukovich examines the new "Regional Preferences" settings that appeared in Android 14.

Evolving with Kotlin — Advanced Functional Programming Techniques

Nirbhay Pherwani's deep dive with real-world examples for more expressive and efficient code in Kotlin.

Collecting items from the Flow in chunks

Shreyas Patil shows how to collect the Kotlin Coroutines Flow items per required intervals in chunks without losing produced data.

Sealed Classes: An Alternative Approach To The Visitor Pattern

Adib Faramarzi looks at how the functionality of sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching can be an alternative solution for the Visitor pattern.

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Libraries & Code

Shuttle

Shuttle provides a modern, guarded way to pass large Serializable objects with Intents or saving them in Bundle objects to avoid app crashes from TransactionTooLargeExceptions

News

Kotlin Multiplatform Survey

If you’re a Kotlin Multiplatform developer, JetBrains want to hear from you!

Xcode Kotlin Plugin Fixed for Xcode 15!

The Xcode Kotlin plugin from Touchlab allows you to browse and debug Kotlin code from within Xcode, and a patch has been released for Xcode 15.

Videos & Podcasts

Saving Android Apps From Crashes - The Shuttle Framework

An overview of the Shuttle Framework & Solution for Android

Making Threads for Android | Richard Zadorozny

A presentation on how Meta built Threads for Android in 5 months and reached 50 million people while adopting Jetpack Compose for the first time for an entire app, and some learnings along the way.

95% Don't Understand THIS About Coroutines (Main-Safety)

Philipp Lackner teaches about main safety, what this means, and why it's important to ensure a fluent app experience.

Remember a State across Configuration Change with a Custom Saver

Learn how to save state in Jetpack Compose by writing a custom saver.

This is How I Introduce a Version Catalog to Android Projects

Jov Mit shows how to integrate Version Catalogs into your Gradle builds.

KAYAK reduced sign-in time by 50% and improved security with passkeys

Discover how KAYAK improved their authentication experience on Android with passkeys using the Credential Manager API with RxJava.

Use Custom Fonts in Jetpack Compose Apps!

Charfaoui Younes teaches how to use custom fonts within Android using Jetpack compose.

Kotlin Notebook: Visual, Interactive, Fun

Sebastian Aigner demonstrates Kotlin Notebook, a new cell-based interface for writing Kotlin which is visual, interactive, and allows you to explore code in entirely new ways.

#TheAndroidShow: faster and easier to build excellent apps, across devices!

Learn how it’s faster and easier to make excellent apps across devices with demos and more, including a live fireside Q&A with the team and a conversation with Android's Dave Burke!

compose-rules with Nacho Lopez

Nicola Corti talks about static analysis and the Compose Rules project with Nacho Lopez.