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June 23rd, 2024

Articles & Tutorials

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What is faster and in which tasks? Coroutines, RxJava, Executor?

Have you ever wondered which multithreading framework is the fastest? Danil Perevalov shares the results of several tests.

Seamless Screenshot Testing for Compose with Screenshotbot

Joe Birch explores Screenshotbot, which can help alleviate some of the friction experienced when trying to integrate screenshot tests into your workflow.

Using Lists in Compose Previews

Donovan LaDuke examines a built-in implementation for Compose previews that doesn't require calling asSequence on a List.

The Starter kit for Android Platform Engineering

Sid Patil takes you from the initial machine setup for building AOSP, and IDE configurations, to booting your very first Android system image on a compatible device.

Gradle Properties

Understanding how Gradle properties work can save you a lot of time debugging. Tadeas Kriz explains how to set properties and what their priorities are.

Boosting App Performance with Baseline Profile

Sagar Khuranaenhanced writes about enhancing app startup time by over 20% and runtime performance by more than 25% through the integration of Baseline Profile.

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Libraries & Code

iCore

iCore is a comprehensive Android library designed to streamline the development process by providing a robust set of modular components.

ComposablePreviewScanner

A library to help auto-generate screenshot tests from Composable Previews with any screenshot testing library: JVM-based (i.e. Paparazzi, Roborazzi) as well as Instrumentation-based (i.e. Shot, Dropshots, Android-Testify, etc.)

Squishy 🦑

Squishy is a lightweight library for controlling the overscroll effect of parent containers or child composables based on user input. It provides parameters to customize the behavior of overscroll effects.

composetheme

Compose Theme provides you with the API to build your design system. It gives you a flexible way to define your own design tokens and properties which are easily accessible from your composables.

News

The Third Beta of Android 15

Android 15 Beta 3 release takes Android 15 to Platform Stability, which means that the developer APIs and all app-facing behaviors are now final for you to review and integrate into your apps,

Android Device Streaming, powered by Firebase, is now in Beta

Google created Android Device Streaming, powered by Firebase, for running tests on a wide variety of devices.

Enabling safe AI experiences on Google Play

Google Play has some updates to policies regarding apps making use of generative AI.

Videos & Podcasts

3 must-know updates from Google Play at I/O '24

This 90 seconds recap covers the 3 must-know updates from Google Play

Building Your First Compose Multiplatform Hello World App

Philipp Lackner teaches how to build your first Compose Multiplatform Hello World App!

AI development assistance

In this episode, hear from Kathy Korevec from the AIDA team at Google about AI assisted developer tools, such as Android Studio -- which is using Gemini AI models provided by AIDA.

How to Make a Clean Architecture App using MVVM & Jetpack Compose

Daniel Atitienei shows how to make a clean architecture anime list app using MVVM & Jetpack Compose in this tutorial.

Mastering WebRTC for Large Conference Calls on Android with Ivan Shafran

Learn about WebRTC, a common tool for making internet calls.

Observing an Internet Connection in a KMP App

Learn about observing an Internet Connection in a KMP App

Top 3 Search Techniques Most Devs Miss!

Charfaoui Younes shares three different strategies for efficiently searching for solutions online.

KotlinConf 2024

All the presentations from KotlinConf 2024