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In this tutorial, Zahidur Rahman Faisal teaches how to create a contacts app using Architecture Components from Android Jetpack like Room, LiveData and ViewModel

In this follow up article, Mayowa Adegeye looks at how to cancel background jobs and structured concurrency in coroutines.

Artur Dryomov demonstrates how CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) are great for a service layer and can be implemented in a Reactive way.

Gaurav Vashisth dives into using Kotlin based gradle build scripts in Android projects.

Tj shows how to implement a fun, animated ViewPager indicator.

Mario Sanoguera de Lorenzo shows how to enforce the Kotlin Style Guide with Ktlint, a Kotlin Code Style Static Analysis Tool.

Mirek Stanek thinks your developer mantra should be: ship fast, iterate often and don’t crash. But how do you make this mantra a reality? There are four key elements: process, testing, engineering, and people.

In this short series, Mark Allison takes a look at what certificate pinning is, why it can be a good thing, some pitfalls and, of course, how to implement it on Android.

AndroidX is the replacement for the support libraries which promises better-organized artifacts, more sensible package names, and semantic versioning of aforementioned artifacts after a reset to 1.0.0. Márton Braun shares his experience porting to these new libraries.

Joe Birch shares a quick CI/CD implementation using Danger, which allowed him to add some automated checks to ensure that an app's library versions are always kept up-to-date

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Libraries & Code

Collection of classes that helps you to manage a screen state

Reactive Android App Permissions API with delegates and logging

Android image filters based on OpenGL, with the idea coming from GPUImage for iOS.

IntelliJ/Android Studio plugin for searching artifacts ids of popular Java libraries

News

Google has decided to discontinue support for Nearby Notifications. They will stop serving Nearby Notifications on December 6th, 2018.

With the release of Robolectric 4.0 and androidx.test 1.0.0, both testing environments are converging on a set of common test APIs.

Videos & Podcasts

In this talk, Marcin Moskala shows how to use Kotlin Coroutines and what makes them so special and so efficient.

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to Uber’s Manu Sridharan on static code analysis.

Nate Ebel explains why committing early and often can lead to more focused commits, a cleaner git history, and makes it easier to share or revert commits with others.

In this episode, Chet and Yigit Boyar talk with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about graphics and the evolution of the UI renderer on Android. And congratulations to Chet & Tor for reaching episode 100!