Articles & Tutorials

In this post Jinyan Cao explains how to create beautiful animations using ConstraintLayout. You'll learn how to build it and about all the caveats that are coming with it.

If you want to migrate your project to Android plugin 3.0.0-alpha1 or higher, read this page to learn how to apply the plugin and specific version of Gradle, and adapt your project to some breaking changes

In this post Pierre Degand explains the machanics of the theming chain and you'll learn how to create different themes for your app.

Instant Apps aim to help bring users into the best native app experience as quickly as possible by downloading only parts of an application when they need them. This article goes in depth into everything needed to deliver to the app store.

Thomas Nield describes his new Kotlin extensions library for statistical analysis.

The Philosophical Hacker wants to talk about a Kotlin language feature that he's not thrilled about because it's likely to be abused.

Marcos Placona would love to get an “Internet high five” every time someone likes one of his articles on Twitter, so he built a high five machine powered by Android Things and Firebase.

In this final article about ViewPagerAnimator Mark Allison takes a look inside and explain how it actually works.

Jorge Castillo dives into functional purity with Kotlin.

Segun Famisa talks about how do REST API consumption in your applications using Retrofit + Kotlin + RxJava.

In this post Manuel Vicente Vivo shows you how to tweak Dagger and Mockito to play nice with Kotlin.

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Libraries & Code

This library contains helpful extension functions to perform exploratory and production statistics in a Kotlin-idiomatic way.

Meet detekt, a static code analysis tool for the Kotlin programming language. It operates on the abstract syntax tree provided by the Kotlin compiler

News

Google's Firebase team announces that we they taking the first steps towards open sourcing their client libraries.

Videos & Podcasts

Huyen talks to Patrick Fuentes, Android developer at the Nerdery and co-organizer of GDG Twin cities, to ask him about getting started and getting involved with the Google Developer Groups.

Chet Haase gives a terrible talk, dissects it, then offers some tips on how to make talks terrific instead.