Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Philippe Boisney shares his feelings about the implementation of the Material Design “Hierarchical transition” animation between two screens.

Márton Braun posed a small Kotlin challenge on Twitter last week, which he posted here along with various solutions.

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This fifth article in a series by Uberto Barbini is about little known features of Kotlin: the 'by' keyword.

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Matías Irland announces the release of Android Snapshot Publisher, their first open source Android Gradle Plugin, a plugin to create Android Snapshot versions in the simplest way!

Adam McNeilly found that if you want to write reliable Espresso UI tests you need to mock your networking layer. He shows how to use MockWebServer to do this.

Even if your app is crash-free, there are still user experiences that can cause frustration. Mirek Stanek shares some ideas about how to help make your app more user friendly when dealing with unexpected issues.

Now that Jeroen Mols cleared up how a modularized app could look like, in part four he dives deeper into how existing apps can be sliced and how you can gradually migrate to a fully modularized architecture.

Marcos Holgado demonstrates how to easily detect memory leaks during your instrumentation tests by using LeakCanary.

Dmytro Danylyk was told that wrapping third-party libraries is a controversial topic, but here he tries to convince you that it’s actually something worthy of consideration.

Last week Firebase announced a new feature within ML kit that was entering its beta stage, Smart Reply. Joe Birch examines how it works and shows the steps to integrate into your app.

This post by Craig Russell describes a potential WorkManager pitfall when refactoring or deleting your Worker subclasses.

In this article Mark Allison looks at Kotlin's function references and some of the really nice tricks that we can achieve with them.

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Libraries & Code

Android Snapshot Publisher is a Gradle plugin to prepare and distribute Android Snapshot versions to multiple distribution sources in a simple and common way.

Write your network requests, IO calls in android with Kotlin seamlessly

Easy to understand real-life example of a modularized Android app

News

Square and TouchLabs are announcing their collaboration on improving techniques and libraries to make using Kotlin Multiplatform more viable for both Android and iOS development.

Google announces some changes to how soon developers are forced to start using Scoped Storage.

Videos & Podcasts

Playlist for all presentations from Droidcon Italy 2019

A look at the important design choices to be made when designing a Kotlin library based on delegates, and an introduction of the open source Krate library from AutSoft, which is an Android SharedPreferences wrapper.