Articles & Tutorials

In this post Tomas Surin will explain how the PSPDFKit Team managed to rewrite their instrumentation PDF rendering tests as unit tests using the Robolectric framework.

Rahul Chowdhury details how to implement a refresh task in the background using the new WorkManager.

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Dan Lew writes about the trials and tribulations of updating a project to the rebranded support libraries aka Android Jetpack aka AndroidX.

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Justin Angel introduces Hijckr, a new Android library that allows developers to intercept XML layout file inflation and reroute XML elements, allowing developers to use their existing layout files while modifying widget behavior and display.

Marcin Moskala's collection of Kotlin language tips & tricks.

Mateusz Młodawski used @JvmOverloads to define the constructor overloads for a custom view but ran into a very specific problem.

Marcos Holgado starts a series of blogs to go into more detail on how to build a plugin for Android Studio to create your own workflows.

Mark Allison starts a new series to look at a mostly unknown feature of Spanned strings & string resources: AnnotationSpans.

Pablisco starts a series of articles detailing some of the unique features of Kotlin, especially for those coming from other programming languages.

Ta Tonthongkam shows how there's slightly more work to move to Kotlin 1.3 if you're using the experimental coroutine library.

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Libraries & Code

Android Library Routing XML Tags from one tag to another when inflating Layout Files

This library allows you to run Android UI tests multiple times in a single instrumentation execution

Simplegraph is Android library for simple sparkline graph view.

A simple 'Slide to Unlock' Material widget for Android, written in Kotlin

A library that let you implement elastic touch animation.

News

Thanks to some new features Google added to Cloud Functions for Firebase, you can now ensure that your users always get fresh Remote Config values whenever they open your app

Business

A complete guide that walks through everything involved in taking an app from an idea to finally shipping to the app store.

Videos & Podcasts

In this presentation, Miroslaw Stanek talks about experiences with making great (and bad) ideas happen, including how to deliver fast, learn from mistakes and keep your users happy (and crash free!).

Nate Ebel is back with another #TwoMinuteToolsAndTipsTuesday video, introducing conditional breakpoints which give you greater control over when your breakpoints are hit.