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December 3rd, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Implementing an animated column section header using Jetpack Compose

Thomas Künneth shows how to build a temporary animated column section header in Jetpack Compose.

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Improving NordVPN’s Android performance using the Compose Compiler plugin

This blog post explains what the Compose Compiler plugin is, how it works, and how it is used at NordVPN.

Kotlin Symbol Processing

Marcin Moskała takes a close look at KSP, a powerful tool that programming libraries can use to generate code based on annotations or our own definitions.

Koin, Ktor & Paging in KMM

Prashant walks through setting up an app with DI, networking, and data paging in a cross-platform manner.

How to implement Push Notifications in Kotlin Multiplatform

Mirzamehdi Karimov shares how to implement push notifications using Firebase in Kotlin Multiplatform (targeting iOS and Android platforms).

Google Developer Experts Share Their Favorite Tools and Advice

Learn from Google Developer Experts in Firebase, Women Techmakers, and beyond, about their favorite Google tools.

Custom Pull to Refresh in Jetpack Compose

Sinasamaki creates a colorful and animated pull to refresh indicator in Jetpack Compose.

Getting Started with Compose for Web

Gustavo Fão Valvassori introduces how to get started with Compose for Web using the HTML version.

Exploring Android 14: Partial Media Permissions

If you maintain your own media picker in your app, Joe Birch shows how to add support for Android's new approach to media permissions.

Kotlin Unknotting — From Realizing Anti-Patterns to Becoming a Better Developer

Nirbhay Pherwani shares an insightful guide to avoiding common Kotlin pitfalls and writing idiomatically beautiful code.

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Libraries & Code

FlexibleBottomSheet

Advanced Jetpack Compose bottom sheet for segmented sizing and non-modal type, similar to Google Maps

News

Women in ML Symposium 2023: Meet the presenters

Google is back with the third annual Women in Machine Learning Symposium on December 7, 2023!

NordVPN boosted the speed of its login user flow by 60% using Baseline Profiles

Learn how developers recently integrated Baseline Profiles, a profile-guided optimization that helps Android developers improve an app's startup and runtime performance

Android Studio Hedgehog is stable 🦔

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

Tools

Android Vector Drawable to SVG converter

Convert any Android Vector Drawable XML to SVG

Videos & Podcasts

Advent of Code 2023 in Kotlin

🌲 Participate in Advent of Code 2023 using Kotlin and win prizes! 🌲

How to set up Android Picture-in-picture mode

Learn how to set up your Android app to switch to PiP mode with some extra user experience bonus on top.

Coil Goes Multiplatform with Colin White

Dive into the dynamic world of Android development with Colin White, the creator of the widely acclaimed Coil library. Enjoy the discussions on the latest developments, insights, and the exciting roadmap for Coil.

Meet Voyager: A Kotlin Compose Multiplatform Navigation Solution

Yanneck Reiß explores the basic use cases for a navigation system with the power and flexibility of the Voyager library for Kotlin Multiplatform / Compose Multiplatform.

Shared Navigation on Kotlin Multiplatform with Decompose (KMP) - YouTube

Philipp Lackner teaches how you can implement shared navigation with the Decompose library for your Kotlin Multiplatform project. (iOS + Android)

Test your APIs in Android using MockWebServer!

Charfaoui Younes teaches about a nice library developed by the Square team to test our implementation of Retrofit in an efficient way.

LeakCanary Masterclass with Pierre-Yves Ricau

Enjoy this engaging episode with a dive into the intricacies of LeakCanary with special guest, Pierre-Yves Ricau. Discover how this powerful tool can detect memory leaks in your Android applications, directly enhancing performance and reliability.

Godot with Emilio Coppola

Nicola Corti talks with Emilio Coppola, Executive Director of the Godot Foundation. He’s here to tell us about Godot, the open-source game engine that’s been making waves in the development world.

What's new in Android Studio Hedgehog

Learn more about how Android Studio Hedgehog can help supercharge your developer productivity.