Articles & Tutorials

Coroutines can model asynchronous problems on the same thread. Chris Banes writes about one place that really benefits from this: working with the Android view system.

Adam Bennett starts a series of articles on how he and his team are migrating their design system to Jetpack Compose, what they learned, and how you can do the same.

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Alex Zhukovich writes about testing fragments with local and instrumentation tests.

Nicolas Duponchel had to build a custom item decorator and wrote up the approaches he took.

Nav Singh teaches about the ActivityResult API, which makes the life of Android developers a lot easier to manage the permissions, and inter-activity communications.

This article series by Pamela Hill is for developers and designers interested in learning more about accessibility, particularly related to the Android platform. The third article educates developers on a few simple implementation details to consider when coding their Android apps.

In this article, Vlad Sonkin explores the basics of the gRPC implementation in Android apps.

Jossi Wolf writes about running a hack day, a one-day event where you can work on whatever for exploring a new technology or just doing something different once in a while.

Dan Lew shares a quick tip on unit testing never-ending Flows.

Mark Murphy writes about how to check if your app is vulnerable to a massive bug in the Play Core library.

Khanh LeViet announces that Teachable Machine now allows you to train your own sound classification model and export it in the TensorFlow Lite format. Then you can integrate the TFLite model into your mobile applications or your IoT devices.

What does ActivityTaskManager measure exactly? This article by Py is a deep dive to explore the question.

Kotlin Android extensions are deprecated, so Bevan Steele goes over the recommended way to replace them: View Bindings.

KTX is a series of Kotlin extension functions for Android. In this post, Mark Allison looks at some that he finds particularly useful.

In this second article, Joe Birch dives into building the GraphQL API for Compose Academy that is being used to serve the UI to its clients.

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Libraries & Code

A lightweight circular indicator view library for Android

Shade's Kotlin SDK provides simple type-safe access to your Hue lights

News

In this blog post, the Android team explains the reasons for the version numbering change, as well as give a preview of some important changes in the new, incubating Android Gradle plugin APIs and DSL.

Google announced Google Play’s annual Best of 2020 awards, highlighting the year’s best apps, games, and digital content

The fragments of today are not the fragments of even a year ago, much less those of 5+ years ago. This week, the *documentation* for fragments has been effectively rewritten from scratch bringing it up to speed with the best practices of 2020.

Google announces the release of the first version of Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) on the canary channel, together with Android Gradle plugin (AGP) version 7.0.0-alpha01.

Videos & Podcasts

Android Developer Relations Engineer Chris Banes will demonstrate how to add a dark theme to your application

In this talk, Mohit Sarveiya explores basic to advanced features provided by the coroutines library.

Material Design Developer Advocate Nick Rout will show you how to implement Material Motion in your Android app

Microsoft released a series of short videos answering questions about Microsoft Surface Duo development.