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October 13th, 2024

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A Powerful TikTok-like Video Editor by IMG.LY

IMG.LY has just released the Android version of its cross-platform suite of video editing tools. It features powerful timeline editing, audio overlays, multi-clip editing and templating. This is ideal for empowering short-form, user-generated content in social media or martech apps.

Building a Cross-Platform Camera App with CameraK and Compose Multiplatform

Kashif Mehmood announces a library with a simple API that lets you create camera apps without the hassle. It seamlessly uses AVCamera for iOS and CameraX for Android.

Clean Strings Handling in Android

Michal Ankiersztajn shows how to use string resources inside ViewModel or any place you want, no matter what the source of the string is!

New features just dropped in Inspektify

Blaž Vantur announce a new update that introduces several new features, making network debugging and inspection easier for teams working with Kotlin Multiplatform projects.

Powering LLMs with Firestore for RAG Pipelines

Mete Atamel looks at text embeddings and how Firestore and LangChain can help you to store text embeddings and do similarity searches against them.

Building Generative AI-powered Chat Android apps with Google’s Gemini

Monika Kumar Jethani shows how to build generative AI powered chat-based apps using Google AI Client SDK.

YOLOv10 to LiteRT: Object Detection on Android with Google AI Edge

Nitin Tiwari offers a comprehensive tutorial on converting and quantizing the latest YOLOv10 object detection model from Ultralytics into LiteRT (formerly TensorFlow Lite) format.

Floating in Space - Animations with Compose and Canvas

Eevis Panula shares how to animate a Canvas with Compose to create an illustration with planets and stars.

Why You Should Build Mobile Apps With Compose

Kevin Galligan makes the case for why you should build mobile apps with Compose.

Kotlin RPC, Koin, Ktor, and WASM

Kerry Bisset showcases the immense potential of modern development tools in creating efficient, scalable, and cross-platform applications

Making Compose Multiplatform apps feel at home

Anil Kumar Beesetti walks through how to conditionally show the ripple animation on Android and hide it on iOS, keeping your app feeling native on both platforms

Ktor 3.0 Is Now Available With New Features and Improved Performance

Anton Arhipov gives a solid overview of what’s new and improved in Ktor 3.0.

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Libraries & Code

CameraK

The CameraK Library is a camera solution designed for Compose Multiplatform, currently supporting both Android and iOS.

ink

Inspire best-in-class pen apps. Lower the developer barrier to entry for high performance, beautiful inking experiences

kmp-developer-roadmap

The Kotlin Multiplatform Developer Roadmap offers comprehensive learning paths to help you understand KMP ecosystems.

News

Introducing Ink API, a new Jetpack library for stylus apps

Google shares the new Ink API, an alpha Jetpack library that makes it easy to create, render, and manipulate beautiful ink strokes, enabling developers to build amazing features on top of these APIs.

Videos & Podcasts

Gilded Rose Refactoring (4/4)

In this final video of the Refactoring GildedRose Mini series, Charfaoui Younes performs the final touches to the kata by using the abstraction, converting mutable properties to immutable ones, and much more.

Adding Java Swing components to a Compose hierarchy

In this short clip, Thomas Künneth shows how to add Java Swing components to a Compose hierarchy in a Compose Desktop app.

FULL Guide to Kotlin's Inline Keyword (inline, crossinline & noinline)

Philipp Lackner teaches everything you need about the different inline keywords in Kotlin (inline, crossinline, noinline) as well as how you can use them to inline functions, classes and variables.

Micro Open Source: From Passion to Pet Project Publication

Ivan Shafran explores the journey of publishing your pet project, library, or application to the open-source community

Screenshot testing with Paparazzi by John Rodriguez

Code with the Italians and John Rodriguez, delving into the world of Paparazzi, the groundbreaking Android library from CashApp that allows developers to render application screens without needing a physical device or emulator.

Android 15, Credential Manager, Android Studio Koala, Compose for TV, & more

Learn about key features and improvements in Android 15, the latest Pixel updates, new tools in Android Studio, inspiring developer journeys, and much more.

Multimodal generation with Firebase Genkit

Join Pavel as he dives into multimodal generation with Genkit and Gemini.

Native iOS Components in Compose Multiplatform [Cupertino]

Learn how to show native iOS components in Compose Multiplatform.

Pull To Refresh using material3 - Jetpack Compose

Daniel Atitienei shows how to create a simple pull to refresh LazyColumn using material3 and Jetpack Compose.