Articles & Tutorials

Dan Kim writes about this little touches in Kotlin that really add up to a lovable language.

Kyle Venn shares an overview of how the Vimeo app was updated with Instant Apps support.

Upgrading to Android Studio 3.0 will make building multi-module projects a lot faster, but it also means a breaking Gradle plugin API changes. Jeroen Mols details all benefits of this change and guide you through the upgrade process.

Some nice strategies by Enrique López Mañas on how to migrate your existing Codebase to Kotlin.

Kotlin's null safety can occasionally create some tricky situations. Dan Lew demonstrates a number of strategies to convince the compiler that your code is okay!!

Fonts have received a lot of love from Google in Android O. In this article Mark Allison takes a look at how to use the new Downloadable Fonts, and some potential gotchas.

Another day, another unexpected side-effect of Android 8.0’s front in the War on Background Processing.

Christophe takes a close look at compiled Kotlin code to find some hidden gotchas to be careful of.

Antonio Leiva's in-depth look at Kotlin coroutines.

This is the second part of the blog series about how the book “Effective Java” may have influenced Kotlin’s design.

Nice article by Sascha Peilicke on how to implement Chrome Custom Tabs using a little library he has created. The library deals with detecting Chrome and falling back to good old WebView if it isn't available.

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Libraries & Code

Chrome CustomTabs for Android demystified. Simplifies development and provides higher level classes including fallback in case Chrome isn't available on device.

News

The 11.0.0 release of the Google Play services SDK includes a new way to access LocationServices. The new APIs do not require your app to manually manage a connection to Google Play services through a GoogleApiClient. This reduces boilerplate and common pitfalls in your app.

The Gradle team is pleased to announce Gradle 4.0.

Semantic time support has come to the Awareness APIs so that they can talk about "This weekend", "on the next holiday", "after sunset", all very common and colloquial ways of expressing time.

A new preview is out - the release contains new hardware support and performance improvements.

Videos & Podcasts

Google provides a new Play Billing Library developer preview to help simplify the development process, allowing you to focus your efforts on implementing logic specifics to your app, such as displaying in-app products and purchasing items.

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Working Effectively with Legacy Code

While in Boston for Droidcon Boston, Huyen chats with Caren Chang, Android engineer for June, about how to take advantage of the under-used but incredibly awesome world of application shortcuts