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March 10th, 2024

Articles & Tutorials

Snapshot Testing Libraries for Android: Paparazzi vs Shot

Fajar Febriyan compares Paparazzi and Shot libraries to see how they have different methods and produce different results.

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How to Drag and Drop using Modifier.dragAndDropSource/Target

Explore Jetpack Compose's latest dragAndDropTarget and dragAndDropSource modifiers.

Designing your account deletion experience with users in mind

To help you build trust and design a user-friendly experience that helps meet our policy requirements, consider these 5 best practices when implementing your account deletion solution.

Pick the right JDK for Android Studio

A quick tip by Kaushik Gopal on setting up the JDK for your project.

remember vs rememberSaveable

Amit Shekhar writes about the difference between remember and rememberSaveable in Jetpack Compose.

Downloadable and Preloaded Fonts on Android

Donovan LaDuke examines downloadable fonts in Android, and the potentially more efficient preloaded fonts as well.

Why Your App Should Have Both Dark And Light Themes

Eevis Panula explains why having both of them is essential and provides further reading on the topic.

Jetpack Compose Tips and Conventions for the @Composables

Learn more about creating more developer-friendly composables in this article from Tomáš Repčík.

Stop Debating in Code Reviews. Start Enforcing with Lint Rules

Stelios Frantzeskakis shows how to enforce architecture and best practices as unit tests with Konsist.

Play Console's new in-app update mechanism: no code changes required

Mike Yerou examines Play Console's built-in feature for prompting updates, with no code changes required.

Test different screen and window sizes

The Android team has published some more official guidance on testing.

Building a macOS screen saver in Kotlin

This article documents how Márton Braun created a custom screen saver for macOS, built almost entirely in Kotlin, using the powers of Kotlin Multiplatform to target macOS.

Getting Started with Web Assembly and Kotlin Multiplatform

Gustavo Fão Valvassori shows how to use Kotlin Multiplatform to write code that runs in the browser using Web Assembly.

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Libraries & Code

kmp-missing-targets

Gradle plugin which identifies multiplatform targets you should be supporting

android-dependency-catalog

This project is a shared Android dependency catalog for projects that use Gradle's version catalog feature. It's also used for generating a dependency cache for use in CIs to speed up builds.

News

Firebase App Distribution Introduces Automated Tester (Beta)

Announcing a powerful new addition to Firebase App Distribution – automated smoke testing for Android apps.

Large Language Models On-Device with MediaPipe and TensorFlow Lite

This new release enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to run fully on-device across platforms

Android Developers Blog: Better, faster, stronger time zone updates on Android

Google has improved the speed of updates of the time zone database on users' devices.

Introducing the Fused Orientation Provider API: Consistent device orientation for all

The Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) is a new API in Google Play services that provides quality and consistent device orientation by fusing signals from accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer.

Android Developers Blog: Introducing a new Text-To-Speech engine on Wear OS

Google announced the release of a new Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine that is performant and reliable on WearOS.

Videos & Podcasts

Imperative, declarative, object oriented, functional

Maia Grotepass' talk is a comparative view of four interrelated programming paradigms: imperative, declarative, object oriented, and functional - from a Kotlin perspective.

Keyboard GIFs & Stickers Using Jetpack Compose

Daniel Atitienei shows how to display stickers & GIFs using Jetpack Compose.

Lyricist & Voyager - Navigating the Compose Multiverse

Dive into the Compose multiverse with the latest episode of Talking Kotlin! In this insightful conversation, Seb and Hadi, bring on a special guest, Adriel Café, to discuss two powerful libraries in the Kotlin ecosystem – Lyricist and Voyager.

Developer guidance for Google Play Protect enhanced fraud protections

Learn how new enhanced fraud protections may impact distribution of your apps. Explore best practices and developer resources to help fix potential issues with your apps and instructions for filing an appeal if needed.

THIS Is How You Create Custom Shapes in Jetpack Compose

Philipp Lackner shows you how to create custom shapes in Jetpack Compose.

Here's What's NEW in Compose Multiplatform v1.6.0

Learn more about what shipped in Compose Multiplatform v1.6.0.

Android 15 DP 1, Stable Studio Iguana, Cloud Photo Picker, and more!

Learn about the first developer preview of Android 15, the stable release of Android Studio Iguana, ML Kit Document Scanning, the Wear OS Hybrid Interface, Nested Scrolling, Strong Skipping, and Shape Morphing in Compose, and more!

The latest in Android foldables and Wear OS at MWC'24

Mobile World Congress is when Android device makers show off their latest devices, and we saw a number of new wearables and foldables for developers to get started building

Behind the scenes with Gemini Nano and AICore

In this segment in #TheAndroidShow, go behind the scenes with Gemini Nano, Google’s most efficient model built for on-device tasks, and AICore, Android’s system service for on-device foundation models

New #Firebase Extensions with Gemini

Building interactive experiences with generative AI is now easier than ever with the new Extensions: Multimodal Tasks with the Gemini API and Build Chatbot with the Gemini API.

Live Coding: Building an Image Sharing App with Metadata Magic!

Dive into our live coding session where we build an innovative image sharing app, focusing on manipulating images' metadata before sharing.

Variance... without Generics!

Dave Leeds unlocks the mental model of generic variance by first teaching how variance works with regular type hierarchies!