Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Fernando Cejas will bring up insights (and opinions) on how to introduce Kotlin into your existing Android Java codebase. All this material comes from his experiences and real facts.

Mihaly Nagy introduces you to some of the concepts and practices that will help you achieve a clean architecture, from an Android developer’s perspective.

Releasing your app for each and every platform sounds expensive— surely there must be a solution that cuts the cost of developing multiple apps, right?

Uber’s Open Source tool for detecting NullPointerExceptions on Android.

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Nick Cruz implements concurrent streams every now and then using RxJava. Here he dives into an example and tests whether or not it’s actually running concurrently.

Kotlin's @Deprecated is far more powerful than Java's. Let Oleksii Fedorov show you why.

One of the things that’s great about MVVM is the lack of the boilerplate that you have to deal with. Donn Felker shares some examples.

Joe Birch talks about how we can write tests for our DAO classes when we’re using Room for our Database layer in our application.

Here are a few interesting tidbits and errors that Gabor Varadi found while converting a larger existing codebase to Kotlin.

Learn how to avoid UX issues, like truncated texts or undersized content space, in applications. Karol Wrótniak shows how to use pseudolocalization.

Andras Kindler shows how to reduce boilerplate code using Kotlin Android Extensions.

Introducing RacerD, Facebook's new open source race detector searches for data races in Java programs, and it does this by employs symbolic reasoning to cover many paths through an app, quickly.

In this article Andreas Kindler walks you through the magic of leveraging the Kotlin Android Extensions to clean up verbose and unnecessary code.

Nice journey by Krzychu Kosobudzki about using platform dependent code. Interesting Kotlin caveat.

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Libraries & Code

Simple Dribbble Client using Dribbble API, fully written in Kotlin. Lots of goodies in there since it uses a lot of great libraries like Dagger 2, RxJava 2, RxAndroid 2, Room for ORM and many more.

IntelliJ/Android Studio Plugin for searching artifacts ids of popular Java libraries.

This is an unofficial port of the official Node.js Actions on Google SDK to Kotlin. This can also be used from Java and any JVM language.

News

JetBrains announces the second Beta release for Kotlin 1.2.

Android Studio 3.0 RC 2 is now available in the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels

This is the first release to include the new Quick Boot feature, which makes the Android Emulator start up much faster based on a snapshot of your previous AVD instance.

All major artifacts (except Paging) are now 1.0.0-rc1.

Videos & Podcasts

A playlist of all the sessions from droidcon Berlin 2017.

In this second episode of the new podcast The Remote Dev, Joe Birch & David González chat with Huyen Tue Dao from Trello.