Articles & Tutorials

Jirawatee shares some tips & tricks for both making your app smaller, and your build faster.

In this third article, Marcos Holgado shows how we can use the data that we are persisting in an Android Studio plugin to create a settings screen.

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Dmytro Danylyk has been using Kotlin coroutines and decided to write about several things which you should and shouldn’t do (or at least try to avoid) when using them.

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Learning from analyzing code is one of the greatest ways to improve your skills. Jeroen Mols brings a fun little quiz for both testing gurus as novices, with a deep dive into the how and why of awesome tests.

Cody Engel shows how adaptive icons are actually quite easy to create and use.

Dionysis Lorentzos presents some Rx puzzles to test how well you know subscribeOn and observeOn. You will find all the answers together at the bottom of the article.

Ahmad Dawoud always wanted to make a library and contribute to open-source, and since he needed to publish a library recently, here’s a guide on how to do just that!

Gradle 5.0 has been released with lots of features and especially with the support of production-ready Kotlin DSL. In this article, Oussama Hafferssas shares the process he followed to migrate Gradle build scripts from Groovy to Kotlin DSL.

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Design

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Libraries & Code

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News

The Google Developers Training team recently published an updated version of their Android Developer Fundamentals course as a series of Google codelabs.

Google is deprecating support for ICS in future releases of Google Play services.

The Fragmented team is excited to announce that they've created a public Discord server that you can join, for free to chat with other folks in the community. It was created to have a place where podcast listeners could get together, ask questions, communicate and help each other.

Android Studio 3.3 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available in the Beta channel.

Videos & Podcasts

Naledi Madlopa talks about modularising your app

Covers all the new hotness released at Google I/O 2018 around ConstraintLayout 2.0 including MotionLayout.

Shares real-world examples of how to make testing your (Kotlin) App easier and quicker so you can have more time and more confidence in the quality of your releases.

This talk focuses on the best practices of using coroutines in your app, including how to handle lifecycle changes with Architecture Components, integration with background job processing, and moving away from RxJava

In this mini fragment, Donn and Kaushik share some thoughts on real world testing with Android development – a favorite topic of theirs.

Jacques Smuts show you firstly how powerful RxJava can be in Android development, and secondly how to get started and find the right documentation in the first place because even that is a nightmare.

Pamela Hill aims to help Android developers level up their Kotlin skills, focussing on intermediate/expert language features such as coroutines, DSLs, and libraries/frameworks such as Koin for dependency injection, and Spek for testing.

This talk aims to run through anecdotal examples of where RxJava has worked well, and where it maybe wasn’t the best idea.

Conference videos from Mobiconf 2018

In this session, Nishant Srivastava dives deeper into best practices and ways of architecting android libraries.