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March 9th, 2025

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Composing with Accessibility in Mind: Because Every User Matters! — Part 1

Bhoomi Vaghasiya Gadhiya emphasizes the importance of accessibility in app development, encouraging developers to create inclusive applications that cater to all users.

Implementing the Magic Eraser Feature in the ProperShot android app

Guillaume Béranger explains how the ProperShot Android app’s Magic Eraser feature allows users to remove unwanted objects with precision tools and automation.

Kotlin runCatching vs try-catch: A Cleaner Way to Handle Exceptions

Elena van Engelen - Maslova introduces Kotlin’s runCatching function as a cleaner alternative to traditional try-catch blocks for exception handling, highlighting how it encapsulates operations and returns a Result object, thereby enhancing code readability and safety

How to Use Swift Packages in Kotlin Multiplatform using Koin

Mirzamehdi Karimov explains how to integrate Swift packages into Kotlin Multiplatform using Koin for dependency management.

Accelerating Android UI Testing Through Parallelization

Mohamed Fotouh Shalan explains how test sharding in Firebase Test Lab and Flank can significantly reduce Android UI test execution time.

Android Automotive OS Architecture: Definitive Guide

Rashik explores Android Automotive OS architecture, explaining its key layers and how it integrates with vehicle hardware for in-car infotainment.

How to Display Styled Strings in Jetpack Compose

Joseph James demonstrates how to display styled text from strings.xml in Jetpack Compose by using an AnnotatedString using a custom toAnnotatedString() extension function.

Design with Widget Canonical Layouts

A review of Widget Canonical Layouts which are common layout patterns that works for various screen sizes.

Common media processing operations with Jetpack Media3 Transformer

Jetpack Media3’s Transformer APIs provide native Android solutions for efficient media editing tasks such as transcoding, trimming, muting, and resizing.

Bridging Compose and View: Seamless Interop Communication

Julien Salvi demonstrates how to utilize Jetpack Compose’s CompositionLocal to facilitate seamless interoperability and communication between Compose and traditional Android Views.

Understanding Hot and Cold Flows in Kotlin

Ignacio Carrión explains the differences between hot and cold flows in Kotlin.

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News

Widgets on lock screen: FAQ

Google has announced that widgets are now available on your Pixel Tablet lock screens!

Koin Annotations 2.0 — Release is out!

Arnaud Giuliani announces Koin Annotations 2.0, featuring an improved compiler, better code generation, and full Kotlin Multiplatform support.

Google Play enhances widget discovery to drive engagement with your app

Google encourages you to revisit your app strategy and consider the potential of widgets.

Introducing Widget Quality Tiers

In order to help you achieve a great widget, Google is pleased to introduce Android Widget Quality Tiers.

Generate Stunning Visuals in Your Android Apps with Imagen 3

Imagen 3, Google's most advanced image generation model, is now available through Vertex AI in Firebase, making it even easier to integrate it to your Android apps.

Videos & Podcasts

Future of AndroidDev in an AI world with Vinay Gaba

Vinay Gaba shares insights from interviews with top Android devs on their three-year predictions, and offers his own perspective.

Genkit is GA, Imagen 3 support in Vertex AI SDKs, and Apple SDK updates!

Welcome to the February 2025 edition of Firebase Release Notes.

Compose runtime and performance

Tor and Romain chat with Leland and Chuck from the Compose team about performance -- recent optimizations, upcoming optimizations, and challenges.

Is It Worth to Learn Native Android as a Beginner In 2025?

Philipp Lackner shares recommendations on what to do to dive into native Android development nowadays.

Widgets

This week's Spotlight Series dives deep into widget benefits, design, implementation and discovery.

Coding Widget layouts

Writing a widget that takes advantage of the rich visual design available in Android can be daunting. Code-along with Developer Relations Engineer Summers Pittman.

Chris Sinco shows us how Mesh simplifies gradient design in Compose

Chris Sinco introduces Mesh, his latest tool for creating and editing mesh gradients with ease.

How Koin's Plugin for Android Studio Helps You Spot Kotlin App Issues

Arnaud Giuliani and Miguel Valdes-Faura demonstrate how Koin's official plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio helps you catch issues in your Kotlin applications directly in your IDE.

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