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December 10th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

How to build Wrapped 2023 in Compose Animation

Maia Grotepass' example of how to build something similar to Spotify Wrapped 2023 animations in Compose.

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Sentry vs. Crashlytics: The Mobile Dev's Guide

A free guide pointing out the differences between Sentry and Crashlytics, that’s it. See which is best for your mobile crash reporting needs.

What can Advanced / Lesser Known Modifiers do for your UI?

Nirbhay Pherwani takes a journey through advanced and lesser utilized Modifiers in Jetpack Compose.

Improve Your Android App Performance With Baseline Profiles

Jaewoong Eum delves into a technique for optimizing app performance by utilizing the Baseline Profile.

KSP2 Preview: Kotlin K2 and Standalone Source Generator

KSP's current implementation has some gaps which Google is aiming to resolve with a new KSP2 architecture. This blog details those architectural changes and the impact for plugins built on KSP.

Processing Payments in Firebase with Stripe

Lukas Kuppers' simple guide to using the Run payments with Stripe extension in a Firebase project.

How I use Mutation Testing to Drive Good Test Case Coverage

Aleksander Jaworski shows how Mutation Testing validates test suites by altering production code logic. When tests pass despite code mutations, it signals missing test cases.

AbsoluteAlignment in Jetpack Compose

Donovan LaDuke shows what to do when there are Compose UI elements that shouldn't realign based on the user's configuration.

Kotlin Coroutines : Suspending vs Blocking

Coroutines are a concurrency design pattern, and Yves Kalume examines the differences between suspending and blocking.

Sharing Composables between Mobile and TV Apps

Joe Birch continues this series on Compose for TV apps, examining the best approach to sharing Composables between TV and other platforms.

Exploring Compose Web

Compose for HTML has different components than Compose for SKIA. Gustavo Fão Valvassori explores how to configure a few of them.

More Accessible Graphs with Jetpack Compose Part 4: On-Screen Control Buttons

Eevis Panula's fourth in a series on more accessible graphs with Jetpack Compose, this time adding on-screen controls to the graph.

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Libraries & Code

ComposePreference

Preference implementation for Jetpack Compose Material 3

Ludi

Ludi is a Kotlin multiplatform app (Android + Desktop) for browsing & discovering new games.

News

Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive

The Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) will be available on upcoming select Android 14 devices. The AVF, first introduced in Android 13 on Pixel devices, provides new capabilities for platform developers working on privileged applications.

A New Foundation for AI on Android

Google announces Gemini Nano, their most efficient model built for on-device tasks, runs directly on mobile silicon, opening support for a range of important use cases. Running

Survey on architecture headaches faced by Kotlin devs

Take the time to participate in this survey for shaping a better understanding of the current application architecture headaches faced by devs in the Kotlin ecosystem. You stand a chance to win one of two tickets to KotlinConf 2024 in Copenhagen.

Videos & Podcasts

Clipping Composables Using Custom Shapes

This is how you can clip composables by using custom shapes, demonstrated by Jov Mit.

Getting Started with Sharing UI between iOS and Android

Learn more from Stevdza-San about sharing your UI implementation between Android and iOS using Compose Multiplatform.

The must-have Android Studio plugins

Ilyas Ipek joins Android Developer Tips to share some of the most useful Android Studio plugins that you may find helpful.

mutableStateOf() VS. mutableIntStateOf() - Auto-Boxing Explained

Philipp Lackner teaches about the new state functions of Jetpack Compose (mutableIntStateOf(), mutableFloatStateOf() and mutableDoubleStateOf() and mutableLongStateOf())

Enhancing Jetpack Compose app performance

Tomáš demonstrates techniques for improving Jetpack Compose app performance through measurement, debugging, and strategic optimization.

Frequentist inference in Firebase A/B Testing

Understand how Frequentist inference works and what benefits this approach brings to your A/B Tests