Articles & Tutorials

Overall Jetpack makes android development easy and it helps you to focus more on your app’s business logic rather than spending more time on framework specific implementations. Sagar Viradiya shows us how to use it.

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Sam Edwards makes the case for the ability to create a single (“fat”) AAR artifact from multiple Android Libraries (all from source). This is currently not easily done and is reaching out for community support.

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In the previous article, Mark Allison added a data layer to provide a five-day weather forecast. With that in place hooking up the UI is now actually pretty straightforward.

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Prem Nirmal describes how he continues to move his app to Kotlin, including the database layer which uses Realm.

Jarosław Michalik takes a closer look at Model-View-Intent approach to implementing UI and tries to reduce boilerplate with data binding.

In this tutorial, Aaqib Hussain shows how to integrate a user’s Facebook and Twitter accounts into your Android app to allow them to log in and also share posts from your app into their social networking account.

Kotlin “scope functions” are functions that allow for changing the scope, or the range, of a variable. Nicole Borrelli enumerates them and shows examples of their usage.

Google launched Seedbank, a place to discover interactive machine learning examples which you can run from your browser, no set-up required.

Márton Braun shows you how to implement a certain kind of DSL – wrapping an existing Java Builder in Kotlin.

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Libraries & Code

Face detector is a face detection Android library which can be easily plugged into any camera API. It is built on top of Firebase ML Kit's face detection API.

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We call them "seeds". Each seed is a machine learning example you can start playing with. Explore, learn and grow them into whatever you like.

News

For those using AMD processors, and those who use Hyper-V hypervisors, Google announces support in the Android Emulator.

The Navigation feature that's part of the Architecture Components is available now as version 1.0.0-alpha03.

Creating an Action for the Assistant will extend your brand presence, bringing your services to new devices and contexts as users interact with the Google Assistant.

Videos & Podcasts

Nate Ebel shares his thoughts about if you should you learn Java or Kotlin when starting as an Android developer and gives some strategies for prioritizing your learning.

The Fragmented team talks to Yuliya Kaleda– also known as the walking wizard of ARCore

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Events

Mobiconf is connecting designers & developers. Only in Krakow, October 4-5. Early Birds tickets available only until 22nd of June!

Win a free trip to the ESA Space App Camp 2018 in Frascati, Italy! Seize your opportunity to meet like-minded people, create mobile applications using satellite data and gain insight into ESA's work.