Articles & Tutorials

Bedanta Bikash Borah takes a deep dive into Dagger’s generated code to understand what Dagger does internally to generate your dependency graph.

Łukasz Kopociński has a few tips for keeping your list of branches clean.

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Christian Dehning lists some quick checks you can do manually, on a real device and without any extra setup and tooling in roughly 10 minutes to release your app with confidence.

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We can get some nice transition animations for very little effort. We can also get some neat transitions when we actually change data items, as well. Mark Allison shows us how.

Modify the launcher icon of each of your app-variants using simple gradle rules. Add ribbons of any color, overlay your own images, change the colors of the icon, etc.

Simon Joecks helped design a Kotlin DSL that allows writing UI tests in a tester- friendly and behavioral way. This article describes a test strategy, benefits, limitations and implementation details of a Kotlin Espresso DSL.

Tobias Heine investigates how we can add an iOS client to a Kotlin multi-platform setup using Kotlin/Native and how easy that is.

Marc Prengemann shares how to optimize and speed up your Gradle builds.

This post by Donn Felker is tailored to help you learn how to hire outsourced developers.

Joao Alves looks at Kotlin Sealed classes and how they can take enums to a completely different level and add some swag.

People want apps to work straight out of the box, just like on their old phones. Here are a couple tips to make your app's install more frictionless during a phone upgrade.

You may have noticed with the Firebase SDKs that all of the API calls that deal with reading and writing data are fully asynchronous. Doug Stevenson explains why.

When ProGuard runs on your Android app, it’s not only using the rules that you’ve explicitly added but rules from a couple of other sources as well.  Here are four sources to watch out for.

If you're considering open sourcing a library, definitely read this article by Nishant Srivastava for several great tips to get it published and used by happy developers.

Dave Smith examines how hardware choice and use case requirements factor into different IoT system architectures.

Here's a very simple step-by-step introduction to using Dagger 2 and Kotlin in Android Activities.

Sam Edwards shares a technique for simple Gradle dependency management in multi-module Android projects using Kotlin.

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Libraries & Code

A library that let you implement ColorPicker, ColorPickerDialog, ColorPickerPreference.

A set of simple code challenges to learn RxJava using JUnit tests as an acceptance criteria. Focused on some basic concepts and doesn't cover any Android topics yet.

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