Articles & Tutorials

According to Eric Maxwell, Android Tools Attributes are a critical element of any well designed app that uses Data Binding, a RecyclerView or top level navigation, such as a Navigation Drawer or Bottom Navigation View.

Wojciech Dziemianczyk dives into the new RoleManager provided with Android Q.

In this article, Simon Wirtz shows how inline classes work in Kotlin and when it makes sense to use them.

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Rebecca Franks shows how to use physics-based animations in a Custom View implementation for natural looking animations in your app.

The goal of this post by Fred Porciúncula is to be a quick and straight to the point introduction to the AssistedInject library, to be used along with Dagger 2. He goes through an example to show how it works.

With a clear view from the previous articles on how multi-module apps should be architected, Jeroen Mols dives into a real-life practical example.

Coroutine scopes are really useful to group together some coroutines and to drive their lifecycle. Fabio Collini shows how we need to pay attention to how to use them when nested scopes are involved.

Jose Alcérreca describes how In a ViewModel, if you’re exposing data coming from resources, you have to take into account that they objects ignore configuration changes such as locale changes.

Birju Vachhani describes a way to clean up your Gradle scripts using the Kotlin DSL.

This post by Jake Wharton is a follow-up to “The Economics of Generated Code” which argued that spending time optimizing generated code is more worthwhile than the same optimizations done in manually-written code.

Mark Allison explores how we can overcome some deprecations in Android Q, and look at how we should detect connectivity status.

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Libraries & Code

A library that provides an implementation of the banner widget from the Material design.

Kotlin friendly library to measure elapsed time for methods, code blocks, RxJava chains

News

Google has released Android Q Beta 2 and an updated SDK for developers. It includes the latest bug fixes, optimizations, and API updates for Android Q, along with the April 2019 security patches

Tell Google your thoughts about the Android Q privacy feature "Scoped Storage". The survey has 7 quick questions and should only take a few minutes.

Google announced the release of two new features to ML Kit: Language Identification and Smart Reply.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, Donn talks about Item #20 in the Effective Java book (third series) by Joshua Bloch.

Dan Galpin highlights many of the changes in both the Q beta 1 and 2 releases, including extended support for foldables, faster ShareSheets with updated direct sharing, and high performance features such as Vulkan 1.1