Articles & Tutorials

Rebecca Franks shows how using ViewModels can help create great user experiences for Android apps on ChromeOS.

This post by Ataul Munim demonstrates some ways we can improve our pull request process to add important information to help the reviewer understand our changes faster.

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In this tutorial by Collin Stuart, you’ll look at Kotlin’s nullability best practices. You’ll learn about null safety in Kotlin and how to avoid NPEs.

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If you've worked with Realm and ORMLite previously, you may be used to having an Insert or Update operation (also known as Upsert). There's no equivalent in Room, but Joseph Jreij shares a simple workaround for similar functionality.

Valery Ponomarenko has been thinking how, in an app broken into feature modules, to break connections between Fragments, and how to get rid of knowledge that there is some router. In this article, he will show how he achieved this.

Grox is an open source library that makes it easier to manage the internal state of complex applications. In this article, Pratyush Kshirsagar focuses on using Grox to enhance cross view communication.

A new feature Joe Birch has been building out required the use of a thumbnail picker for video files. In this article, he dives into the iteration of this process, from reusing existing framework classes to building his own open-source solution.

Emma Vanbrabant asks: "Do you work on an android app that's split up into modules? If so, it would great if you could spend a few mins filling out this survey, gathering data on your approach" She promises to publish the results so everyone in the Android community can benefit.

Mark Allison continues his series, now starting to look at the first feature module which will provide a list of the most popular artists on last.fm.

Google released their alpha of ViewPager2, and Michael Evans walks us through using this updated control.

A plea to all android app developers and small start-up tech business owners to come together and force Google to change their automatic termination policies

Room 2.1 (currently in alpha) adds support for Kotlin coroutines. Florina Muntenescu demonstrates how to use this, how it works under the hood and how to test this new functionality.

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Design

Check out these animated inspirational UI/UX Patterns captured from current mobile apps.

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Libraries & Code

A simple and customizable full-screen image viewer with shared image transition support, "pinch to zoom" and "swipe to dismiss" gestures. Compatible with all of the most popular image processing libraries such as Picasso, Glide etc. Based on PhotoView by chrisbanes

Grox helps to maintain the state of Java / Android apps

News

Android Jetpack Navigation Library is officially in Beta! Build a visual graph with Android Studio’s Navigation Editor, hook up common UI components in one line of code, then navigate() to a destination.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, Kaushik & Donn continue their discussion from episode 148 on evolving Android architectures. They collected some of the questions from the community and try to answer them.

In this episode Esteban de la Canal tells us everything about Apply Changes, a new feature in Android Studio 3.5 Canary destined to replace Instant Run.

Specials

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