Articles & Tutorials

Alex shows that the current version of the “Layout Inspector” has many improvements, especially for working with resources.

With the release of Android 11 beta, Google also updated the Paging architectural components library for android. Vivek Singh shares how Paging 3 greatly simplifies implementing paging in your android app.

Hugo Matilla shows how to handle typography properly when setting up your styles and themes.

Slider and RangeSlider are really nice iterations on SeekBar, and they provide the same functionality plus much more. Mark Allison takes a closer look at these Material controls.

Zarah Dominguez discovered some useful details regarding custom text rendering and measurement in spans.

TensorFlow Cloud is a python package that provides APIs for a seamless transition from debugging and training your TensorFlow code in a local environment to distributed training in Google Cloud.

Py wraps up the series by showing how to determine if an app launch was a cold start.

Joe Birch shares some thoughts on why to follow guidelines instead of rules.

Bevan Steele takes a looks at kotlinx-serialization for JSON serialization.

Google developers share some key points on testing best practices to do with code coverage.

Firebase MLKit is no longer, it is separated into the Firebase Machine Learning library and a standalone MLKit library. Peter-John Welcome describes the changes that have occurred with this split.

In this guide, Shivam Dhuria adds a search bar which will queries all the dog breeds in a the database and updates the UI using flows & channels.

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Libraries & Code

A Gradle plugin to measure the app size impact of Android libraries

An Android audio management library for real-time communication apps.

A small testing library for kotlinx.coroutines Flow.

News

Google is bringing you Beta 3, their last update in this year’s preview cycle. For developers, now is the time to make sure your apps are ready, before they bring the official release to consumers.

Google is making some changes to how your published apps are packaged, many of them becoming requirements next year.

Towards the end of this year, Google is going to start requiring users of Google Play Console to sign in using Google's 2-Step Verification.

Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi of Harvard, the TensorFlow Lite Micro team, and the edX online learning platform are sharing a series of short TinyML courses this fall that you can observe for free, or sign up to take and receive a certificate.

One of the most requested features has been to give users the ability to leave a review from within the app. So Google has now launched the new in-app review API to address that need.

Videos & Podcasts

On today’s episode of the Motion Tags series, we will talk about ConstraintSet and Constraint

In this talk, Rebecca Franks takes a look at the new Android Studio 4.0 and the tooling that has been added in this new release -- how we can now inspect Databases, use the new Motion Editor and other small treats that the latest release has included.