Articles & Tutorials

Last month, the Kotlin mocking library MockK introduced many powerful features and Oleksiy Pylypenko shares them with you.

Miłosz Lewandowski describes the Jetifier tool which helps you migrate to AndroidX even when your dependencies still use the older Android Support libraries.

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Shk Schneider shares a nice and simple extension to Activity and Fragment for cleaning up getting extra values from intents.

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In this more advanced post, David Vavra shares how he integrated the navigation components into a multi-module, single-activity architecture with ViewModels, and how he solved a couple gotchas.

ViewPager has been with us in the Android world for some time, but now we have the alpha release of View Pager 2. Joe Birch takes a look into exactly what’s so different about this iteration.

A deep dive into how the Android Studio team built Apply Changes, the successor to Instant Run

The @JvmOverloads annotation is a convenience feature in Kotlin for interoperating with Java code, but Márton Braun shows one specific use case on Android where it shouldn’t be used carelessly.

We have bugs that haunt us, crashes at inconvenient times and sometimes 💩simply hits the fan… Jeroen Mols shares five tips to help get out of this mess.

The ConstraintLayout team released a new alpha version of MotionLayout not too long ago, introducing KeyTriggers. Jossi Wolf takes a look at one use for this powerful new feature.

Zarah Dominguez describes why submitting bug reports is important, and how to create an optimal one that has a better likelihood of being noticed and fixed.

In this post, Roger Taracha covers the process of signing your APKs and also explore & understand the inner workings of the signing process.

Gabriel Peal introduces a simple way to make quick tweaks to your UI during development using BroadcastReceivers.

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Libraries & Code

Gradle plugin that checks if there are dependencies using support library instead of AndroidX.

News

Google provides more information about the Google Play requirements for 2019 and announcing some changes that affect apps distributed via other stores.

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Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, Tor and Chet Romain talked with Michael Wright from the Android Framework team.

Listen to all-star Indie developer and friend of the show Chris Lacy, who created the beloved Action Launcher.

In this Kotlin tutorial, Nate Ebel shows how to write 'while loops' and 'do while loops'.

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