Articles & Tutorials

Danny Boyukliev shares a retrospective of his past 12 months, and he can’t help but be grateful about the things he learned in 2018.

While Google Cloud Build is not very prevalent in the Android community, Ryan Harter sees it as quite promising for Android builds due to its Docker-based build configuration and availability of high memory build machines at great prices.

Nick Rose's realized that his approach in a previous article gives too much responsibility to the ViewModel. In this article, he writes about a different way to achieve the same result but with class responsibilities better contained.

Mark Allison starts to build Muselee, where he will be creating an app from scratch and explore how making sensible decisions early on can significantly simplify things as the project grows.

 Gábor Horváth describes how he and his team took the VIMAGE app from idea to being chosen as one of the Most Entertaining Apps of 2018 on Google Play.

Wolfram Rittmeyer loves to build Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) in Kotlin because it's so easy. Here he takes you step by step to building your own.

Michael Bukachi shows how to integrate coroutines with Espresso Idling Resources.

In this short article, Marcin Adamczewski reveals 10 tips that will help you create a pro media application.

As part of Google Play’s target API level requirement existing apps need to target at least Android 8.0. One of the migration steps is related to background services. Maciek Witowski describes some of the pitfalls.

Philippe Boisney built a showcase Android app with a backend on Google App Engine and Firebase, all written in Kotlin.

Here's an overview of most of the important Android developments in 2018.

Design

The repository of publicly available design systems and pattern libraries

Jobs

Libraries & Code

A sample project entirely written in Kotlin. Backend/Frontend with Ktor and Android app

Korlibs is a set of Kotlin Common modern libraries to do full stack development aiming Kotlin 1.2.

Videos & Podcasts

Take a look back at some highlights from Android developer in 2018

In this short fragment, Kaushik explains how you can trace network requests from your app by adding a special header. Easily trace an HTTP request all the way from a client to your backend web process

Events

Droidcon Boston is back! Join the vibrant New England Android community for two days of technical deep dives on April 8th-9th, 2019 showcasing 30+ speakers from all around the world. Interested in speaking? Submit a proposal before the end of January 2019 http://bit.ly/dcbos-19-cfp. Willing to attend? Get 10% off your ticket using the code ANDROID-WEEKLY-10-OFF