Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Lara Martín shows you how you can have Master-Detail views with Navigation Components.

Mike Nakhimovich provides a detailed breakdown of how to integrate your library modules via Dependency Injection using Dagger.

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz's project shows how to create a simple game board, determining where a game piece is, and then using the game piece data to display interesting augmented reality information on an Android phone.

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Each time Google releases a new developer preview, Mark Murphy rummages through the API differences report the high-level overviews, and even the release blog post, to see if there are things that warrant more attention from developers.

Bartek Lipinski analyses some best practices in using function expressions along with 'when'.

This post by Nick Rout covers the features and API of the Bottom Navigation component.

Saving an application’s state properly so that it survives process death is often discussed in the Android community, and Márton Braun describes how we’re getting support for it in ViewModels.

At Touchlab, they don’t use the term cross-platform. They prefer “multiplatform” – for a couple of important reasons listed here.

Sam Edwards' post shows you a method of sharing common configuration between your Android Library modules in order to cut down on boilerplate Gradle configuration.

In Android Q, one of the new features we are seeing introduced is what is known as Settings Panels. Joe Birch describes what these are and how to use them.

The testing team at Google introduced the Android X Test libraries, amongst which we can find ActivityScenario, a new way to test Activities and code related to them. These APIs made it to a stable version, so Roberto Orgiu shows how to use them.

Miguel Panelo introduces a new State container (MVI) implementation named Kaskade.

Robert Levonyan provides some details on how to use the new WorkManager to implement background tasks.

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Libraries & Code

Unidirectional state container for Android and Kotlin

The Navigation Architecture Component simplifies implementing navigation, while also helping you visualize your app's navigation flow. This Codelab walks you through how to implement it.

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News

Google is releasing Beta 1 of Android Q for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers. This post lists all the new features available in the SDK.

As part of Google's focus and dedication to improving the Play Store experience for users, they are introducing new design specifications for your app icons.

Google announces the stable release of the Android Jetpack Navigation component.

Google Play announces rewarded products, a new product type now available in open beta in the Play Console. Rewarded products make it easy for Google Play developers to increase their monetized user base.

Videos & Podcasts

ASO consultant Peter from Mobtimizers joins Ariel to discuss App Store Optimization strategies and shares his framework for success as well as tips and tricks.