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April 14th, 2024

Articles & Tutorials

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An Engineer's perspective: How does an ANR work?

Application Not Responding (ANR) errors are some of the most frustrating to encounter and often difficult to debug. Get a handle on ANRs in this deep dive blog with details on how Android OS monitors, processes, and triggers ANRs. Learn more:

Jetpack Compose, Ktor, and Koin DI Unlocking MAD Skills

Nimit Raja delves into the powerful trio of Jetpack Compose, Ktor, and Koin, exploring how they synergize to streamline and enhance modern Android app development.

Effective Android TV focus management system with Jetpack Compose

Alex Zaitsev presents a comprehensive solution to focus management with Jetpack Compose on TV.

Introduction to ML Kit Document Scanner for Android

Myric September takes a closer look at the ML Kit Document Scanner API.

Implementing Critical Alerts on Android

Surendar Dharavath delves into how to implement critical alerts on Android devices.

Scaling with Deep links on Android

John Petitto leverages annotations to manage deep links in a scalable way.

Dependency Injection in Compose

Jonathan Koren discusses details of how Hilt provides and scopes dependencies in a traditional Android app and how Compose changes our approach.

Extending Coil

Ryan Harter shows how to extend Coil to use custom data types and data sources when retrieving images.

Random Musings on the Android 15 Beta 1

Mark Murphy rummages through the API differences report for Android 15 Beta 1.

My experience with SubComposeLayout

David Debre demonstrates how to use SubComposeLayout, a low level API for building layouts in Jetpack Compose.

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Libraries & Code

pokedex-compose

Pokedex Compose demonstrates modern Android development with Jetpack Compose, Hilt, Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack (Room, ViewModel), and Material Design based on MVVM architecture

kmp-hierarchy

Gradle Plugin to investigate KMP project's hierarchy

kotlin-faker

Generate realistically looking fake data such as names, addresses, banking details, and many more, that can be used for testing and data anonymization purposes.

KStore

A tiny Kotlin multiplatform library that assists in saving and restoring objects to and from disk using kotlinx.coroutines, kotlinx.serialisation and okio

News

Meet the founders changing women's lives: Women’s History Month

In celebration of Women’s History month, Google is celebrating the founders behind groundbreaking apps and games from around the world - made by women or for women.

Google Drive cut code and development time in half with Jetpack Compose

The Google Drive team rebuilt the home page from the ground up using Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern declarative toolkit for creating native UI.

Videos & Podcasts

Building Quality Android Apps with CI

Aline Ayres presents how the main Continuous Integration tools and technologies contribute to creating high-quality Android apps that stand out in the market.

Kotlin Context Receivers Made Easy!

Charfaoui Younes demonstrates how and when to use the awesome feature of Kotlin Context Receivers.

Custom Navigation Drawer component with Jetpack Compose

Stevdza-San builds a custom Navigation Drawer component with Jetpack Compose.

Sealed Classes for UI State are an ANTI-PATTERN

Philipp Lackner discusses why Sealed Classes for UI State are an ANTI-PATTERN.

Specials

Clean Architecture: Complexity over Simplicity?

Burhanuddin Rashid contemplates why we end up with complexity over simplicity in software.