Articles & Tutorials

Very good article by Joe Birch about App signing. Sometimes you loose a key or it gets compromised and this article tells you what to do in this case.

In this multipart series by Mayowa Adegeye you'll learn how to leverage Kotlins coroutines to perform asynchronous operations.

In API 26 (Oreo) a new TextClassification system was introduced. This has been further refined in API 28 (Pie). In this short series, Mark Allison takes a look at what this is, how to use it, and how we can add custom branded action.

Bartek Lipinski shares the implementation for a straightforward @Rule for disabling system animations while running your Espresso tests.

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In this post, Ben Weiss covers how he refactored Plaid away from a monolithic universal application to a modularized app bundle.

The new Material Theming brought a slew of changes, and one big change was the reimagining of the Floating Action Button as it originally debuted with Material Design. Here's an implementation of the expandable FAB.

Anubhav Gupta teaches a basic understanding of how thread scheduling works in Android or Java runtime.

Uri Shaked shares the incredible story of a first app written in _assembly_!!!

In this geofence tutorial, Fernando Sproviero shows how to use Android’s Geofencing API to build an app with custom geofences.

Over the years, executing background tasks on Android has evolved. To write modern apps, it's important to learn how to run your background tasks in modern fashion. Here's the latest from Google.

In this post Mariusz Dąbrowski will explain the new ImageDecoder and AnimatedImageDrawable classes.

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Libraries & Code

Android library for fluid tablayout animation as seen on Snapchat.

Kotlin coroutines library 1.0.0-RC1 is available. All the core user-facing APIs are to become stable with Kotlin 1.3 release. This is one of your very last chances to provide your feedback.

Some great updates in Dagger v2.18, including support for Gradle incremental annotation processing!

Camera1 and Camera2 API wrapper that exposes simple to use interface.

Type-safe time calculations in Kotlin, powered by generics

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Videos & Podcasts

Mustafa speaks to Nick Butcher, Design and Developer Advocate at Google, about motion design, prototyping and the three layers of material design.

Go into kotlin scripting (using kscript), pros cons, setting it up and more.