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July 7th, 2024

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Zsolt Bertalan examines error handling and how it relates to monads.

Mastering Date and Time Management in iOS with Kotlinx DateTime

Tom Sabel explores how to manage date and time functionalities using Kotlinx DateTime in iOS, offering clear, step-by-step instructions to ensure a smooth transition.

Coroutine Essentials

Dave Leeds focuses on the most essential coroutine concepts you need to be productive with them in your day-to-day coding.

Kotlin Coroutines dispatchers

Kotlin Coroutines library offers an important functionality that lets us decide which thread (or pool of threads) a coroutine should be running on (starting and resuming). Marcin Moskała shows how this is done using dispatchers.

Kotlin’s @Keep Annotation: Keeping Your Code Safe and Sound

Sandeep Kella looks into the magical world of Kotlin annotations, specifically the @Keep annotation.

Mastering Text in Jetpack Compose

Stefano Natali dives deep into exploring how HTML strings support empowers developers in Jetpack Compose.

Destructuring Declarations in Kotlin

Sandeep Kella dives into one of Kotlin’s coolest features: destructuring declarations.

Improving video playback with ExoPlayer

Alexey Bykov shares practical tips, supported by production data, on how to improve playback from different perspectives and effectively use ExoPlayer in your Android app.

Security Rules Basics for Cloud Firestore

Aravind Chowdary shows how security rules allow you to write policies to define who has access to what in your database using an easy-to-learn language called CEL.

Let's clarify some misconceptions around Android development

Yves Kalume debunks some myths around Android development and clears the air!

Which Map Transformation Should I Use?

Darryl Bayliss examines some map transformation functions available in Kotlin.

Declarative Gradle

Piotr Jagielski describes the vision for Gradle Build Tool to deliver an elegant and extensible declarative build language that allows developers to describe any kind of software in a clear and understandable way.

Exploring New Worlds of UI sharing using Compose Multiplatform

John O'Reilly updates the PeopleInSpace app to demonstrate the use of Compose Multiplatform.

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Libraries & Code

fig

Use a Google sheet as remote config

dependency-guard

A Gradle plugin that guards against unintentional dependency changes.

Tools

ImageVector Wizard Plugin for Android Studio

Supports creating Compose ImageVector files from SVG files, with an optional optimization feature

Videos & Podcasts

Unit & UI Testing With Compose Multiplatform

Philipp Lackner shows you how to Unit & UI Test With Compose Multiplatform!

Fancy Test 'Todo' in Kotlin & Junit5

Sebastian Sellmair shows how to implementing a custom '@Todo' annotation for Junit5 in Kotlin.

How to Set Up CI CD for Android Using GitHub Actions

Jov Mit's detailed tutorial for setting CI/CD for Android projects by using GitHub Actions.

Remote Config with Google Sheets is Crazy!

Stevdza-San shows how to use the "fig" library along with a Google Sheet for a simple remote config setup.

Reinventing Ticket Sales with Pretix

Hadi Hariri and Sebastian Aigner chat with Raphael Michel, the founder of pretix, an open-source ticketing system.

A Singleton Twist Interview Question with Kotlin!

Charfaoui Younes solves an interview question about Singleton with Kotlin. He provides both the solution and common tips to communicate in the interview.

I messed up: Repairing a bad 'initial commit' on your new GitHub repository

Sebastian Sellmair shows how one can use 'git commit-tree' to fixup a repository, producing a new 'initial commit'

Texts, dates, numbers, currencies, plurals, etc.

Karol Wrótniak dives into texts, plurals, dates, numbers, currencies, legal stuff and more aspects of internationalization.

Exploring Material3 Adaptive Layout

Code with the Italians as they sit down with Alex Vanyo and Ian Clifton, Android Developer Relations Engineers at Google, to explore the exciting capabilities of Material3 Adaptive Layout.

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