Articles & Tutorials

In this post Karol Wrótniak will walk you through the steps that are needed when you want to publish your Android library to a maven repository. He'll tell you about the different options and the pros and cons.

Sometimes we need to detect specific issues in our codebase that are not covered by existing Lint checks. Here, Sven Vidak shows how to implement some custom ones.

There are actually four ways to load locally stored web content in Android, ranging from good to very, very bad. Erik Hellman shows you which is which.

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Márton Braun show you some API design choices made for the library called Krate, an Android SharedPreferences wrapper, focusing on the use of Kotlin's delegate properties.

In the spirit of Project Marble, Google did an investigation into Lint performance and how it might be improved. In this blog post Matthew Gharrity explains the technical details of how they fixed some of the top performance issues .

In this article, Paulina Sadowska shows you how to use WorkManager with RxJava and what problems you may encounter.

Does your app has a messenger component? If yes you should check out this tutorial by Harshit Dwivedi. He'll show you how to implement ML Kit's smart replies an an Android app.

In this three part series Maxime Dupierreux will teach you how to build a little todo app using Room, LiveData and notification bubbles (new UI elements from Android Q Beta). The first part deals with creating the app and setting up Room. Room is an ORM library for Android.

The third part Maxime Dupierreux implements the notification bubble. Bubbles help users prioritize information and take action deep within another app, while maintaining their current context. They also let users carry an app’s functionality around with them as they move between activities on their device.

The second party by Maxime Dupierreux deals with creating the ViewModel and LiveData.

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Libraries & Code

DiscreteSlider tries to offer you the slider with value label as shown in the Material Design spec, with an API. The library also offer you range slider mode

This library contains a set of extension functions to the WorkManager and LiveData allowing to observe enqueued work in a reactive manner

Lawnchair is a customizable Pixel Launcher alternative. This Repository contains the full rewrite from scratch (simply known as V2),

News

As of Android Gradle plugin 3.4.0, Google is starting to deprecate the feature and instant app plugins, replaced by instant-enabled app bundle.

As the market matures, it is becoming increasingly important for subscription developers to optimize both subscriber conversion and retention in order to maintain growth.

Videos & Podcasts

In this video, Nate Ebel teaches how to convert PNG to WebP in Android Studio for smaller apks.

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