Articles & Tutorials

Juhani Lehtimäki describes why it's a good idea to evaluate your potential competitors and some common traps to avoid.

In this blog post, Jorge Sánchez reviews how to create a REST API client using Kotlin multiplatform and how to create the integration tests needed to verify that our integration works correctly.

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Null should be avoided in most code, but in Kotlin, null is part of the type system.  'Handstand Sam' Edwards shows that there are perfectly appropriate safe uses of null in Kotlin.

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Demand for Mobile Engineers is up 15% YoY. Hired's 2019 State of Software Engineer report reveals the most in-demand engineering roles, hottest coding languages, how devs feel about open source and more. Get the data: hired.com/android

Lara Martín shares her experience and the tips that helped her and other Juniors grow in a professional environment, but also, how that helps the rest of the team.

Updates to RecyclerViews using DiffUtils can be easy to get wrong. TJ shows a simple straightforward way to get it right!

Thanks to delegation it’s easy to minimize the duplication in our Kotlin code. Fabio Collini looks at how this can be applied to data classes representing JSON data.

A couple of weeks ago, Emma Vanbrabant tweeted a survey to find out more about how Android developers were modularising their apps. Here are the results.

Craig Russell discusses the functions add() and plus() which are available on some Kotlin collections, and how despite their similar looking names, their underlying implementations can make a big difference.

Fragments still have some issues that make them difficult to deal with. In this piece, Evan Tatarka explores how fixing them would improve ease of use, and provide suggestions on how this can be done in a backward-compatible way.

It looks like it will be the JVM language #2 and on Android, and for many, it became the language of choice. Danny Preussler shares his experience embracing this relatively new language/

Ever wondered how you can use data encryption to secure your private user data from hackers? Look no more, in this tutorial Collin Stuart does just that!

There is an object type that can be manipulated by R8 at compile-time: classes. Jake Wharton describes some operations on classes that can be performed at compile time.

Lint tends to get slower for every release. There's a reason for that: It keeps checking more and more things. Tor Norbye shares some tips to make sure it runs as fast as possible.

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Design

Jonas Naimark shares a basic sticker sheet and After Effects workflow for animating user interfaces

Jobs

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Looking for an experienced Android developer to join an existing agile/scrum team on an very popular entertainment/streaming app. Must have Kotlin experience, able to write thoughtful unit tests, and the ability to closely follow design guidelines.

Libraries & Code

A light-weight library to easily make beautiful Navigation Bar with a ton of customization options.

Spectrum is a cross-platform image transcoding library that can easily be integrated into an Android or iOS project to efficiently perform common image operations

Provides configurable consent form that can be displayed as a dialog or Activity and stores consent results plus provides access methods.

News

Some improvements coming to Actions on Google, including new locales and improved Wavenet voices.

Helping Android app developers build secure apps, free of known vulnerabilities, means helping the overall ecosystem thrive. Google launched the Application Security Improvement Program five years ago, and continues to ship improvements.