Articles & Tutorials

Mohammed Audhil found an elegant way to write a re-usable Alert Dialog class in Kotlin to be used across an app.

Kevin Galligan is working on writing cross-platform apps using Kotlin Multiplatform. There are a lot of pieces missing, but he's now added some of this to help complete this great goal.

This article concludes Mark Allison's look at the new ImageDecoder, with some post-processing features. Not only is it a really clean API, but it is also hugely powerful and provides a framework for creating some really interesting effects.

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Kotlin as a programming language provides some very powerful features, which allow the creation of custom internal Domain Specific Languages (DSL).  Simon Wirtz shows how to create a DSL in Kotlin by introducing a library that offers a DSL as its API.

Erik Hellman previous examples don’t suit the cases where there is a continuous stream of events, like click listeners and other continuous event sources. In this post, he describes how to use an actor in coroutines to solve this.

The Uber team released Nanoscope: an extremely accurate method tracing tool for Android.

Google’s ARCore platform can create virtual objects, blending them with the real world through your device’s camera. Follow along as the Novoda team explores some key ARCore concepts and delve into creating an augmented reality app from scratch.

This post is a summary of how Chris Banes refactored an app which uses RxJava pretty heavily, to one which uses Kotlin coroutines too. Specifically, he talks about switching out Single/Maybe/Completable sources to coroutines.

Tyler McCraw shares a great set of resources to help you get immersed in the greater Android community.

For contextual menus, the documentation stipulates that using Android’s ActionMode is the “preferred technique for displaying contextual actions”. Nick Rout shows how to make use of this mode.

Most of these tips by Jeb Ware are focused on the fact that obfuscation can expose problems that are only seen at runtime, and then only when a specific code path is executed.  This means that most of these rules are focused on making sure you’re likely to discover those problems.

In part 2, Cesar Valiente is going to show some code, and going to go through each component showing code snippets of their structure and main responsibilities.

In this article, Kaan Mamikoglu shares some resources that will let you get started with Firebase, dig deeper, ask questions or stay up-to-date.

Kotlin coroutines is a way of doing things asynchronously in a sequential manner. Creating coroutines is cheap vs creating threads. Veeresh Charantimath shows how they work.

Gabor Novak shares a cool technique for rendering (using vectors) how a light will fill a room.

Akshay Moorthy covers how to fully set up a Retrofit 2 client to support SSL certs, Auth headers, and more.

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Libraries & Code

A highly customizable, powerful and easy-to-use alerting library for Android.

Simple TlsLibrary written in Kotlin - Provides DSL for creating TLS connections

An extremely accurate Android method tracing tool

Briar is an open source decentralized secure messenger that would even work over bluetooth in case there is no internet. The sourcecode is worth checking out: Lot's of "by the book" code on how to implement certain things (dependency injection, online / offline checking).

News

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Videos & Podcasts

All the presentations from Droidcon Italy 2018

The Kotlin/Native side of Multiplatform was discussed a lot after KotlinConf, but not a lot has been built. Kevin goes over some of the libraries coming soon, demo SqlLite and some other architectural libraries on iOS, and walk through the pieces needed to get started.

In this episode, Chet talks with Florina Muntenescu and Clara Bayarri about text. The conversation spans spanning, spannables, spans, and of course spans, and a bunch more.

When Nate Ebel finally worked up the courage to submit conference talk proposals, he did so with the intention of documenting the speaking process if I were selected. He hopes that by openly sharing his experiences that perhaps others that are considering taking the same leap will be inspired.