Articles & Tutorials

In this post, Mert Şimşek shows how to add some polish with StateListAnimator and show you step by step how I achieved it.

If you ever wanted to create an Android Studio plugin and didn’t know how to get started, this article by Mihaly Nagy gives you the basic building blocks.

Kotlin Sealed Classes are useful when modeling state’s within various app workflows. Nate Ebel leveraged this to simplify a few different use cases and wanted to share what he found.

Sebastiano Gottardo focuses in on how to test the in-app products in your app.

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In this blog post the Novoda team deep dive into JetBrains multiplatform projects feature, why you should consider using it and how you can do so to level up your product development.

In this short series, Mark Allison takes a look at the right way to modify the contents of a RecyclerView.Adapter in order to get built-in animations for free.

This article is a collection of things Vincent Huang found useful to know while building an encryption layer within an Android app.

This article from Jovche Mitrejchevski is focused mainly on UI tests in an Android application using Espresso.

To start 2018 on a good note, Nicolas Bridoux decided to take some time to finally do the migration from RxJava1 to RxJava2 in an Android app.

Have you noticed how some android applications move the content inward when you open the navigation drawer? In this tutorial, Gurleen Sethi shows you exactly how you can achieve the same effect.

Aanand Shekhar Roy takes a look at another important part of RxJava: Flowables.

Daniel Novak shows how a Service Locator is a very simple pattern which can be implemented in few lines of code and be a viable alternative or complement to DI frameworks like Dagger.

In this post, Aanand Shekhar Roy demonstrates the types of schedulers in RxJava and when to use the different types.

Brandon John-Freso shows you a top-level walk-through of how he built a complex feature to demonstrate a few design patterns that you can employ in your own app to create remotely configurable layouts and behavior on-the-fly.

This is a continuation of Dan Leonardis' previous article on reactive architecture; where this time he talks specifically about the building blocks of code.

In this fifth article, Joao Alves shows how we can have our Kotlin data classes implementing the Parcelable interface.

Fabio Collini shows how custom expressions in data binding, combined with Kotlin, are very powerful and can be used to simplify layouts and to avoid complex binding expressions.

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Libraries & Code

A boilerplate free router concept for android, written in Kotlin

Android library to simplify Fingerprint authentication implementation

Kotlin meets LibGDX; Kotlin support for LibGDX applications.

News

Android Studio Preview 3.1 Beta 1 & 3.2 Canary 1 are now available to download.

Videos & Podcasts

In this mini-fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #5 of the Effective Java (Third Edition) book – Prefer Dependency Injection to Hardwiring Resources.

Udi Cohen and a team of mobile engineers took advantage of Litho's properties to improve video performance and make it easier for developers to build performant UIs.