Articles & Tutorials

In this post, Joe Birch dives into how we can implement landmark detection into our applications using Firebase MLKit.

When it comes to writing good unit tests, Cody Engel has found we tend to throw good engineering practices out the window. So with all of that out of the way, what are the seven principles of great unit tests? Read on!

Danielle Emma Vass walks us through building an emoji through writing SVG code directly.

In this article, you will learn how you can organize multiple Kotlin scripts as Gradle tasks and make them easily executable this way.

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When you build an app that has to deal with network calls, you almost end up writing the same boilerplate code. Rygel Louv shows how in a Kotlin world this can be done in a clean and elegant way.

Have you ever been in a scenario where a library has a critical bug, already resolved but a version release for that particular library hasn’t been scheduled in the near future? Garima Jain shows how useful Jitpack can be in this situation (and others).

After years of running the Kotlin Budapest user group, lots of meetups, and a blog, the team at Makery decided to dream bigger, and go the extra mile: they set out to organize an all-day Kotlin conference. Here's the recap for this excellent event.

If you have been thinking about learning Android development but just haven’t got around to start the process yet, now is the time. Perfect time. Let Juhani Lehtimäki explain why.

Jonathon Fry shares a simple way to separate work and personal projects, with different SSH keys and git configs.

Listening to the event of a property being changed is a highly common task. Kotlin comes to the rescue with a built-in language feature - enter the observable property. András Kindler shares a couple examples.

Dan Lew is often asked the same question: how do Trello employees manage to work together remotely? Part of it is their emphasis on effective communication. He shares some tips on that here.

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Libraries & Code

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Gray Box End-to-End Testing and Automation Framework for Mobile Apps

An easy way to dynamically replace Strings of your Android App or provide new languages Over-the-air without needed to publish a new release on Google Play.

The ultimate resource list for your most loved coding language

News

Android P is almost here! As Google puts the finishing touches on the new platform, they're bringing you Android P Beta 4.

The Android developer community has long expressed a desire to contribute more easily to AndroidX, thus AndroidX development has moved to public AOSP.

Google has announced consumer availability of rich responses optimized for Smart Displays. With rich responses, developers can use basic cards, lists, tables, carousels and suggestion chips, which give you an array of visual interactions for your Action

Dialogflow is introducing several new beta features to expand conversational capabilities for customer support and contact centers.

Videos & Podcasts

Introduction to ML Kit For Firebase focusing on how to use custom machine learning models on Android with TensorFlow Lite. Eric Fung demonstrates how he retrained a MobileNet with his own images and modified a sample to be able to classify different kinds of dim sum.

A hotly debated topic at the moment is the use of a library like Dagger for dependency injection in the world of Kotlin. Danny Preussler dives into how some of these use a Service Loader/Locator pattern and the subtle differences with dependency injection.

Here's the playlist for all the excellent presentations from Conference for Kotliners 2018 in Budapest, Hungary.

Adam Erb describes the unconventional way he built the Android app: zero XML, no high-level layouts (almost ViewGroups only), no Fragments, single Activity, and manual back-stack management.

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