Articles & Tutorials

Here is Aida Issayeva's 5-step guide to becoming an Android Developer, jam-packed with action items after each step.

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Kevin Galligan encourages us to start testing Kotlin/Native's new memory model now before it ships, and shows how to do that.

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Ekaterina Petrova shares an overview of the results from the latest Kotlin Multiplatform Survey.

Marco Cattaneo examines how to integrate the Robot Testing Pattern with Compose semantic testing.

Ever wondered how to implement a synchronizer between Android’s RecyclerView and TabLayout? Ahmad Hamwi discusses use cases and how to actually implement them.

A Kotlin Multiplatform challenge that Hossein Amini recently faced was creating Parcelable objects in the shared module for the Android platform. In this tutorial, he shows you how to address this challenge.

In this article, Dmytro Shuba shows how to create a truly custom theme that follows our own design system (vs Material Design)

In this fifth blog post in which Adrian outlines multiple years’ experience with Android app testing, he details best practices for testing in the cloud.

This post by Charcoal Chen covers how to use the CameraX Extensions API in your app.

Sagar Viradiya introduces callback-ktx, an attempt to wrap the potential framework and jetpack callback-based APIs into suspending extension functions.

Aleksander Jaworski shows an example modularization strategy for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile projects and touches on some issues related to modularization and the iOS platform.

Zarah Dominguez examines what it takes to write Lint rules that have to examines results from numerous modules.

In this article, Marco Gomiero covers how to set up an in-memory database with H2 for testing on a Ktor project that uses a MySQL database in production.

Thomas Künneth examines programming Composables that work well on foldable devices.

Michal Bialas is back with a brand new compilation of really inspirational, worthy to check, promising Android projects, libraries, and tools released or heavily refreshed in 2021.

Svetlana Isakova discusses the K2 compiler which aims to speed up the development of new language features, unify all the platforms Kotlin supports, bring performance improvements, and more.

Bill Phillips covers the fundamentals, shows how structured concurrent control flow is built on top of those fundamentals, and then arrives at some best practice takeaways.

Marcin Moskała examines Couroutines scoping functions to help improve the execution of your code, especially when it comes to concurrency.

Before you dive into Jetpack Compose, Bloco has compiled a few important things to know.

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Libraries & Code

A lightweight library to help you navigate in compose with well typed functions

Extension functions over Android's callback-based APIs which allows writing them in a sequential way within coroutines or observe multiple callbacks through kotlin flow.

News

The #AndroidDevSummit is back! Join us October 27-28 to hear about the latest updates in Android development directly from the Android team, and connect with Android developers around the world.

Firebase Summit will be returning as a virtual event on November 10th, 2021 at 9:30am PST

Google has pushed the source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially released the latest version of Android.

Videos & Podcasts

Yasmine Evjen sits down with Android GDE Rebecca Franks to talk about becoming a GDE, the role developers play in designing for Android, and more.

Creating git commits and opening pull requests is the way to contribute to developing a project. In this video, you will learn 10 tips to have a better git commit and pull request.

We will be simulating, diagnosing, and fixing a small, made-up game console! As usual, a number of Kotlin features will help us achieve that goal, like sealed classes, sequences, and immutability.

Join Rahul Pandey as he talks about time management is essential to succeeding in your interview. One tactic to do this is by "inventing the API" when you're coding.

An overview and walkthrough of the code you will implement in the WorkManager pathway of Android Basics in Kotlin.

Svetlana Isakova discusses the K2 compiler which aims to speed up the development of new language features, unify all the platforms Kotlin supports, bring performance improvements, and more.