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May 12th, 2024

Articles & Tutorials

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What's Native?

Guilherme Delgado reflects on what it means to be native.

Material Design Components for Android 1.11.0 and 1.12.0

James Williams discusses new color options and carousel refinements in the latest Material Design Components library.

Twinning Titans: System Design vs. Design System — Let the Showdown Begin

Qamar A. Safadi clears the air and breaks down the distinctions between “System Design” and “Design System”.

How to publish a Kotlin Multiplatform iOS app

Marco Gomiero continues the series and shows how to publish a Kotlin Multiplatform iOS app on App Store with GitHub Actions

Mastering Jetpack Compose Performance: Part 2

Sagar Khurana delves into the Compose Compiler Metrics Plugin, offering insights on immutable and mutable objects, and providing practical solutions to common performance issues.

Cutting some Slack, for leaks and giggles

Pierre-Yves Ricau runs the new LeakCanary toolkit against the Slack Android app. Read on to learn a bunch!

Conscious Compose optimization 2: Tackling composition

Andrey Bogomolov shares fresh discoveries and advanced practices in optimizing Compose.

Migrating an Android app to iOS with KMP — Part III: UI and Compose Multiplatform

Continuing the series, Igor Escodro now focuses on creating a multi-platform user interface and thanks to Compose Multiplatform,

Preparing for K2

K2 is around the corner and if you haven't prepared your projects for it, Zac Sweers helps cover some of the areas to watch out for.

Leveraging Lazy Modules and Background Loading in Kotlin with Koin

This blog post revisits Koin’s support for lazy modules and background loading, showing how you can leverage them to enhance your Kotlin applications

An Updated Primer on Android Navigation

Liam Spradlin updates a guide on how to use Material components to create the smoothest navigation for your app.

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Libraries & Code

Ketch

An Android File downloader library based on WorkManager

junit5-robolectric-extension

This repository aims to bridge the gap between JUnit 5 and Robolectric

News

Build better, safer SDKs with Google Play SDK Console

Google has made the SDK Console available to all SDKs, as long as they're distributed from a canonical Maven repository source that we can verify.

More frequent, focused updates for Android Studio

Google announces more frequent Android Studio updates with new "Feature drops".

Tune in for Google I/O on May 14

Google I/O is arriving this year on May 14th and you’re invited to join online!

Videos & Podcasts

Multi-field range and inequality conditions on Firestore

Learn more about the support for range and inequality filters on multiple fields in a single query that just became available on Firestore

Shared Element Transition In Jetpack Compose

Daniel Atitienei teaches how to create an amazing transition using the new shared element transition API.

How to Implement a Shared Element Transition In Jetpack Compose

We finally have a shared element transition API for Compose! Philipp Lackner shows you how to use it.

Mastering Kotlin in 7 Steps with Sarp Remzi Aksu

Sarp Remzi Aksu presents challenging situations with Kotlin development and how can the audience overcome this challenging situations with 7 different steps.

Ultimate Guide on Publishing KMP Library on a New Sonatype Central Platform

No more String-based Routes! New Compose Navigation Release

A quick introduction to new type-safe navigation in Compose Navigation.