Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Joe Birch dives into Account Linking that allows us to allows us to create a more personalized experience.

There are some neat helpers built into the tools: namespace which can help us designing layouts that are bound to data. In this short series, Mark Allison takes a look at these tools and see how they can speed up our layout development.

Ciro Rizzo shares an example of setting up Continuous Integration & Delivery via CircleCI.

Asynchronous programming is hard, and Kotlin coroutines implementation tries to make it a little easier. Here, Erik Hellman shows a simple example how to use it in Android development.

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There's a possible upcoming change to Android, whereby attempts to use hidden APIs may be blocked. This article explains a bit more about @hide and what you should be doing given this potential Android change.

Mladen Rakonjac's in-depth explanation of RxJava for Android development in a Kotlin context.

RxJava can simplify the fairly complex interactions needed to build an autocompleting EditText view in Android. Craig Russell walks you through the implementation step by step.

With the Google Play Store out of beta on Chrome OS, and the overall usage of Chromebooks on the rise, it’s time to start thinking about how your Android application will perform on Chrome OS.

For the past 9 months a growing group of contributors have been working on bringing a complete Typed Functional Programming experience to Kotlin by creating a new modular library that will complement the standard library with functional extensions, datatypes and abstractions.

In this article, T.Surkis introduces you to the world of custom views and hopefully shed some of the ambiguity that makes it seem so daunting.

Here's a quick overview of using Android Architecture Components in Kotlin.

An introductory look at data classes in Kotlin.

Covering binary programming in Part I, Thomas Nield now covers linear programming and optimization in Kotlin.

Jeb explains how ProGuard generates a few output files to show what happened in each step when it processes an Android app.

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Libraries & Code

A performance monitor tool for Android (not limited to performance data) to easily monitor the performance of your app in real time in pc browser

A Jake Wharton™ open-source Android app for searching the Android SDK documentation.

Functional companion to Kotlin's Standard Library

Sample Android app for showcasing custom implementation of OpenGL camera preview display, written in Kotlin.

News

In order to make testing easier and faster, starting on Feb 20th, Google is introducing shorter renewal intervals for test purchases made with license-test accounts.

Now available with support for Gradle build cache, improved incremental compilation for Android and Kotlin/Java projects, IDE support for the new Kotlin style guide and inlay hints in the editor for receivers and values returned from lambdas.

Videos & Podcasts

All presentations from DevFest Baltics 2017.

The Fragmented team looks at Kotlin's Iterable-like data structure called “Sequences”. What is a sequence? How is it different from Iterable? When should I use it?