Articles & Tutorials

This blog post by David Schreiber-Ranner provides a brief introduction to the topic of nullability, and it discusses several best practices for handling nullability in your Java apps.

Jose Alcérreca suggests moving from observable fields, provided by the data binding library, to LiveData instead to improve compatibility with the most recent architecture libraries from Google.

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Native mobile development has historically required development on 2 or more distinct platforms and toolkits. Jeremy Rempel makes a case for why Kotlin Native will be important to help with this.

Want to contribute to open source? A guide to making open source contributions, for first-timers and for veterans.

Kotlin is the newcomer and with that comes many untrodden paths and unknown gotchas. Paul Blundell explores one of these anti-patterns called, for the sake of the article, "Also this is null".

Firebase Performance has some pitfalls that may be peculiar and unexpected. In this article, Andrii Chubko explores the problems you might stumble upon as well as the ways to cope with them.

In the Android Q Beta 1 release we got a new interesting feature: Roles. Though this feature is still in early stage of development, Łukasz Chromy takes a look at how it's useful.

There are subtle ways to break compatibility for your clients when publishing an open source library. Márton Braun touches on three topics: Source compatibility, binary compatibility and deprecation.

This article by Simon Wirtz covers the concepts of Generics and Variance in Kotlin and compares it to Java.

In this blog series, Mohit Sarveiya shares how he went about integrating coroutines with various use cases and talk about some of the challenges he encountered

Any investment into making a generator emit more efficient code, which generally means output less code and allocate fewer objects wherever possible, will pay off. Jake Wharton explains with two specific, real-world examples which he's run into.

In a series of blog posts, Mark Murphy examines what changes Android Q will bring to external storage.

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Libraries & Code

A secure OTP app for Android

Kotlin multiplatform implementation of Reactive Extensions (!!!)

News

Full Google I/O 2019 schedule has been published to the I/O website.

To date, Google has cleaned up the following 3 apps in AOSP: Music, Calendar, and Calculator

Firebase Auth launches new sign-in method on mobile, adding Microsoft and Yahoo identity providers

Videos & Podcasts

Android vitals allows you to identify performance issues in your app by providing information about battery use, stability, rendering, app startup time, and permission requests.

Specials

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