Articles & Tutorials

Chris Banes shows how we can adapt our apps to support dark themes using Material Design Components (MDC).

Jossi Wolf shows how he refactored an app that used LiveData incorrectly/inefficiently to an improved version using Coroutines Flow.

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Chris Banes shows how to create seamless keyboard animations using WindowInsetAnimation.

Chris Banes introduces the new WindowInsets APIs for checking the keyboard (IME) visibility and size

Hunter Stich shows how the Material motion system distills common transitions into a group of simple patterns for a smoother, more understandable user experience.

Bevan Steele shows how to redirect ports on your development device in order to develop both app and backend on the same computer.

Kevin Galligan lists several Kotlin Multiplatform libraries that have been updated for Kotlin 1.4.

Sean McQuillan describes several new features in Constraint Layout 2.0!

Over two posts Leland Richardson explains the benefits of Compose and looks at how it works under the hood. In this post, he looks at how Compose works under the hood.

Over two posts Leland Richardson explains the benefits of Compose and looks at how it works under the hood. To start, in this post, he discusses the challenges Compose addresses, the reasons behind some of the design decisions, and how those help app developers.

After some investigation, Dan Lew discovered an interesting property of the Play Store: changes to any track causes reviews to be reset for every track.

Jake Wharton shows how to track down some compiled file size changes and gain better insights into dependency changes using the dependency-tree-diff Gradle plugin.

Google announces the release of the alpha of Jetpack Compose, the modern UI toolkit designed to help you quickly and easily build beautiful apps across all Android platforms, with native access to the platform APIs

In this article, Sakis Kaliakoudas covers the tools he and his team used to facilitate technical discussions, as they grew from 5 to 40 engineers in the span of 4 years.

Bill Phillips starts with a high-level overview of the kinds of tactics used to directly tackle a long build time, and then he addresses a technique in some more detail: the sample app.

Nick Rout focuses on shape theming using the Material Design Components (MDC) library.

Nick Rout focuses on type theming using the Material Design Components (MDC) library.

Nick Rout focuses on color theming using the Material Design Components (MDC) library.

Android users expect your app to look and behave in a way that’s consistent with the platform, best achieved using the Material Design Components (MDC) library. Nick Butcher outlines the many benefits of using MDC, explaining why it’s the recommended solution.

Chris Banes describes the new WindowInsets APIs for checking the keyboard (IME) visibility and size, along with examples of how to use it.

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Libraries & Code

Showkase is an annotation-processor based Android library that helps you organize, discover, search and visualize Jetpack Compose UI elements

Diffuse is a tool for diffing APKs, AABs, AARs, and JARs in a way that aims to provide both a high-level view of what changes along with important detailed output

ConstraintLayout is an Android layout component that allows you to position and size widgets in a flexible way. These are the official sources for the control.

A Google library that enables reuse of Material themes defined in XML for theming in Jetpack Compose.

An intelligent diff tool for the output of Gradle's dependencies task

This repository contains a set of individual Android Studio projects to help you learn about Compose in Android. Each sample demonstrates different use cases, complexity levels and APIs.

News

Google announced they've officially added Pose Detection to the ML Kit lineup.

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Videos & Podcasts

Four presentations from GDG Bucharest August 2020 Meetup: What's new in Android 11 by Cosmin Ștefan, Dependency Injection in Android with Hilt by Manuel Ernesto, Jetpack Compose by Wolfram Rittmeyer, and Navigation library by Carlo Lucera.

Android 11 added the ability to control the keyboard, even scrolling it in and out synchronized with your app’s content. This video demonstrates how to implement this behaviour, and covers the new Jetpack functionality enabling this for easier WindowInset handling.

Jetpack Compose is now in alpha and you might want to start adding it to your existing apps.

Jetpack Compose is the new next generation UI toolkit. It uses a declarative component based paradigm for building UIs easily and quickly

Walk through examples of theming, animation, layout and more, demonstrating how to customize and combine components to build real UIs. We

In this episode, Clara Bayarri, Matvei Malkov, and Anna-Chiara Bellini are joining Chet and Romain to talk about this milestone release of Jetpack Compose.

Hadi sits down with the Kotlin Advocates at JetBrains to discuss the life of a Kotlin advocate, the Kotlin 1.4 release, as well as the online Kotlin 1.4 event happening in October.