Articles & Tutorials

Android supports different form factors by design, so foldables are quite easy to deal with. However, Mark Allison examines the new Jetpack library that makes things easier still: SlidingPaneLayout.

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Getting starting in the tech industry is a daunting experience. Rebecca Franks shares a few tips that may help you navigate through your new career in tech.

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Aidan Low discusses how to use Flow and the combine operator to cleanly coordinate user interface elements whose visibilities are each dependent on multiple pieces of view model state

In this post, Jaewoong Eum looks at how to improve usages of DataBinding using the Bindables library.

In this WorkManager tutorial, Harun Wangereka shows how to schedule different kinds of tasks, test the tasks, as well as debug different tasks.

You are going to encounter these scope functions namely let, run, apply, also, within every Kotlin codebase. Chetan Gupta examines how using these often ends up just as a code noise.

This article by Alex Zhukovich contains information about a few ADB commands that allow us to change accessibility settings on Android devices and test applications more efficiently.

Jake Wharton convinces library writers to try and package integrations with a changing system into an integration library that’s easy to evolve or throw away.

The goal of this post by Zach Klippenstein is to pull the pieces of Compose's view state functions apart, show how which parts do what, and how they all fit together.

IntelliJ is a great tool for developer productivity. Jarosław Michalik shows how to create custom live templates for an extra speed gain when writing tests.

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Libraries & Code

Android DataBinding kit for notifying data changes from Model layers to UI layers on MVVM architecture.

A simple Snake game implemented using Compose for Desktop

A pluggable sealed API result type for modeling Retrofit responses.

A super clean notes app with features like categories, trash, list or text input, notification reminder, color tag, autosave. Uses Dagger, Coroutines, Mockk, ViewModel, Room

News

Google announced that you can publish your Android Auto navigation, parking, and charging apps to production

Google highlights a few free tools that developers can consider to help make user experiences safer for everyone.

Videos & Podcasts

In this video, Paulina teaches how Android Runtime works, what is ART, DALVIK, JIT, and AOT and how Android Runtime evolved over the years to make our apps faster.

Find out about the Model-View-Intent architecture pattern, learn how Decompose helps write better declarative multiplatform user interfaces with Kotlin, and discover that time travel is possible – at least for debugging.

In this episode, Donn talks about the best way to learn a new technology from the ground up. Want to learn something new? This episode is for you.

This course by Amr Yousef walks viewers through adding dynamic feature modules to their application. It starts with the basic setup and evolves to more advanced topics such as navigation and injecting dependencies

Gábor Váradi shows what cases to consider when working with state on Android, how to use state for loading data asynchronously, how we can cut down on potential edge cases to consider, and how a combination of Jetpack components can be used to help us with that.

Android development can often feel overwhelming – there’s so, so many things to take care of around a single app. Here’s a brief look by Márton Braun at all the things* that an Android developer would have to consider, do, and test for.

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