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February 18th, 2024

Articles & Tutorials

Compose Multiplatform Made easy with Circuit

Eric Ampire shows how Compose Multiplatform lets developers reuse and build the user interface once, and use it on all platforms — Android, iOS, web, and desktop.

Neumorphism in Jetpack Compose

sinasamaki teaches how to create a neumorphic UI style in Jetpack Compose.

The Effective Pull Request Checklist

Charfaoui Younes shares how you can effectively review Pull Requests with the Android Code Review Checklist.

Leveraging Generative AI to compose posts from your photo albums

What if we could use Generative AI to express with words what our photos represent, and have AI composing a storytelling about your moments. Gabriel Moreira sets up a workflow for doing just that.

Avoid "Useless" Cases in Layered Architecture

Donovan LaDuke argues for skipping "UseCase" classes in certain situations.

A weirder HashMap

Pierre-Yves Ricau's musings on building a better lookup for a large set of strings: Use a HashMap or is there something better?

Perils of duplicate finding

Jake Wharton walks through an exercise of finding the right set of Kotlin functions for filtering a set of numbers.

SQLDelight in Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)

FunkyMuse walks through the process of integrating SQLDelight into a KMP project, enabling you to efficiently manage your database interactions across various platforms (Android, iOS, and Desktop).

Using Amper with Fleet in a Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform project

John O'Reilly takes a look at Amper, a new project configuration tool that JetBrains has been developing.

Random Musings on the Android 15 Developer Preview 1

Every year with new Android Developer Previews, Mark Murphy takes a look at what API changes we can expect in the release. This time he examines the apparent minuscule release Android 15 DP1.

Android App Update Prompts using the Google Play Console

Joe Birch takes a look at how the new Google Play update prompts work so that we can start using it for our own apps.

Testing with Accessibility Scanner

Eevis Panula analyzes Accessibility Scanner and discusses how to test your app with it.

Build Rot: The Hidden Technical Debt in Maven and Gradle Builds

Brian Demers considers a type of technical debt known as “build rot,” which is an insidious enemy of efficiency and maintainability.

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Libraries & Code

LED Seconds

sinasamaki shares some sample code for an animated LED numbers effect in Jetpack Compose.

photoview-android

PhotoView is an ImageView component that enables zoom functionality through diverse touch gestures for Android.

vico

A light and extensible chart library for Android.

News

Google Pay - Enabling liability shift

Google has announced the general availability of liability shift for Visa device tokens for Google Pay.

Calling all students: Become a Google Developer Student Club Lead

Does the idea of leading a student community at your university appeal to you? If so, consider leading a Google Developer Student Club!

The First Developer Preview of Android 15

Google has released the first Developer Preview of Android 15

Cloud photos now available in the Android photo picker

Android is integrating cloud photos from your chosen cloud media app directly into the photo picker experience.

Gemini 1.5: Next-generation model, now available for Private Preview

Developers can sign up for Google's Private Preview of Gemini 1.5 Pro, their mid-sized multimodal model optimized for scaling across a wide-range of tasks.

Videos & Podcasts

Lottie Animation using Jetpack Compose

Daniel Atitienei takes a quick look at Lottie animation in Jetpack Compose

Android interview — Alejandra Stamato (@astamatok)

Alejandra Stamato is an Android community active member who recently switched from being an Android Developer Relations Engineer at Google working in Compose text and architecture, to a product role as Android Technical Lead at HubSpot

What Does the Kotlin Foundation Do?

Immerse yourself in the world of Kotlin as the latest podcast episode unveils the inner workings of the Kotlin Foundation

BasicTextField2 - Everything You Need to Know

Philipp Lackner show you everything you need to know about BasicTextField2

How To React On Lifecycle Events In Jetpack Compose

Yanneck Reiß shows how to react to Android app lifecycle changes through Lifecycle Events with the lifecycle compose library.

Specials

So Long, and Thanks for All the Bytes

A post by Chet Haase leaving Google and the Android Developer Relations team.