Articles & Tutorials

In this tutorial, John Codeos shows you how to ask users to rate your app inside your app using ‘In-App Reviews‘.

Swapnil Tiwari shows how to use the open-source Scrcpy tool to cast your physical device’s screen on your laptop and interact with it.

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Alfred shows how to convert Gradle configurations and scripts written in Groovy to Kotlin.

Nikhil Panju explores complex multi-step animations with MotionLayout (and Coroutines).

Aaron Oertel considers tools and techniques to make an Android app more resilient to unexpected conditions and errors.

Joy writes about how to use the new UI framework, Jetpack Compose to build a dual-screen app on the Surface Duo.

In the fourth post of this series, Harsh Shandilya writes about the SDKMAN command-line tool.

In this article Mark Allison looks at how to use the new Jetpack APIs for handling window insets.

Ryan Harter shares some insight into dealing with dates in SQLite queries.

Michal Bialas's list of a set of helpful and not-so-common Android tools and libraries

Why should we write a lot of boilerplate code in a class that only holds some data for us? Alfred demonstrates the value of Kotlin data classes.

Florina Muntenescu introduces Jetpack DataStore, now in alpha - a new and improved data storage solution aimed at replacing SharedPreferences.

Jake Wharton examines the inner workings of resource optimization in Android builds.

Akshay Chordiya introduces OkSSE — an open-source Server Sent Events client library made with Kotlin multiplatform and Coroutine for the tech community to use and build their amazing use-cases.

This post by Alex Light covers the capabilities of structural class redefinition introduced in Android 11, as well as some of the considerations and trade-offs encountered while implementing the feature

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Libraries & Code

Text-ray goggles for your Android views. Supports both regular Android views and Jetpack Compose.

Server Sent Events (SSE) client multiplatform library made with Kotlin and backed by coroutines.

Routing functionality for Jetpack Compose with back stack

News

Material Design has a blog! Check out the new home for tutorials, news, research & discussion of all things Material.

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) is an SDK that allows you to use the same business logic code in both iOS and Android applications. It has gone Alpha, and you can start sharing business logic in your mobile apps with it right away.

jetbrains has released Dokka (Alpha) on Kotlin 1.4!

Videos & Podcasts

In this codelab, Wajahat Karim covers some basics of Jetpack Compose

Donn Felker's entire 9+ hour course on the Kotlin Programming Language is now available on YouTube!