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Paris Tsiogas' notes on sharing a Kotlin multiplatform module via Swift Package Manager with iOS.

Discover how to make your Android code cleaner and easier to understand with these common design patterns for Android apps with this guide from Aaqib Hussain.

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Bill Phillips considers why you need to be careful when using Coroutines' launchIn.

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Joe Birch shares some explorations he's been doing when adding Compose Navigation to a Modularised Android App.

Jessica Dene Earley-Cha writes how the ability to say “Hey Google, open AND do x” can be achieved.

Suleyman Fatih Giris shares his learnings about animations in Jetpack Compose while building a Canvas-based galaxy animation.

Igor Escodro examines the best way to integrate the Snackbar control as an undo mechanism in Jetpack Compose.

How does Compose choose to re-execute it when the state changes? Zach Klippenstein takes a closer look to find the answer.

Kotlin Collections! You’ve heard of them, you’ve used them – so it makes sense to learn even more about them!

AssistedInject library has been deprecated and the same functionality is now available directly in Dagger. Jake Wharton shares the steps needed to update your code.

Apps targeting Android 11 or higher will only see a filtered list of apps and will need to declare the apps they need to interact with directly. This blog post by Meghan Mehta goes through best practices of how to adapt to this feature.

Fred Chung shares several tools you can use during the different development stages of your app to learn about SDKs and libraries' handling and usage of data, so you can better protect your users’ privacy.

So you've broken down your app into numerous modules, but your Dagger setup suffers. Tomáš Mlynarič shows how to integrate Dagger into these modules more efficiently.

Marcello Galhardo shares a way to integrate Jetpack Compose tools into Android Studio 4.1 via some workarounds.

Pasha Finkelshteyn introduces ki, a Kotlin Interactive Shell

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Holi is a lightweight Jetpack Compose library of colors, gradients and cool utility functions for all your palette needs!

Kash is a shell written in and powered by Kotlin

Constructor-inject views during XML layout inflation

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When regular, high-quality content is pirated, the original authors suffer a loss in time and money, not to mention the frustration of it all. Mark Allison writes about this challenge that he is currently facing.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, see what types of collections the Kotlin standard library offers and explore a common subset of operations available for all of the collections in the standard library.

Snackbars give users a brief message about app processes at the bottom of their screens. Learn how snackbars can be used in your app by watching this short presentation by Nick Rout.

In this episode, Nate Ebels discusses a high-level overview of Android app security and some action items to help improve your project's security today.

This episode of The Developers' Bakery is all about testing and code coverage with Evgeny Mandrikov on stage!

Annyce Davis brings even more joy and enthusiasm while Dru and Nishant discuss her interview in ‘Living By The Code.’

In this episode, Donn returns for a solo episode to talk about his thoughts on Quality over Quantity and why it’s important to software development and productivity in general

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