Articles & Tutorials

In this article Joe Birch dives into the second part of the CameraX API – the core library to learn what it is and how we can make use of the functionality that it provides for our applications.

This article by iñaki villar is a summary of one example from a Google I/O presentation which contained 19 great Gradle optimization tips in the presentation.

Antony Harfield jumps straight into a Kotlin example and try to show how to implement the concepts behind Railway Oriented Programming, which is a way of chaining together Result types.

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Callback hell happens all the time in Android. Luckily, with coroutines and this article by Jacques Smuts, there’s an easy way out.

Writing tests for coroutines can be difficult, not only because of concurrency concerns, but because it is very easy to create leaks which live on past the lifecycle of an individual test. Rick Busarow shares some ways to avoid this.

In this post third post in a series, Sean McQuillan focuses on solving practical problems using coroutines by implementing one shot requests.

Google developer Leland Richardson writes this post to give people a solid mental model around what the upcoming Compose library does, and eliminate anything one might think of as “magic”.

Paolo Rotolo demonstrates the new Coroutine Scopes for every object that has a LifecycleOwner attached. You can use those to write UI related coroutines and eventually specify in which state of lifecycle run them.

Jetpack Compose aims to be a declarative framework to build Android user interfaces easily using Kotlin. Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez takes a look at what this may mean for creating UIs.

While migrating a real-life project’s Gradle build from Groovy to Kotlin, Eugene Petrenko collected some useful recommendations, code snippets, and explanations

Ana Coimbra and Diogo Cabral have created this chart demonstrating the paths that you can take as you progress through your Android development career.

In this article, Arunkumar Sampathkumar shows how the Intent field sourceBounds can be explored in context of animations.

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Libraries & Code

A JUnit 4 Rule and JUnit 5 Extension for utilizing TestCoroutineDispatcher and TestCoroutineScope from kotlinx.coroutines-test

A Gradle plugin to easily apply the same setup of static analysis tools across different Android, Java or Kotlin projects. Supports Task Configuration Avoidance so that you have zero overhead in build speeds when you use this plugin!

News

Android is now at the point where sRGB color gamut with 8 bits per color channel is not enough to take advantage of the display and camera technology. Now with Android Q, it's starting to get really close to reality: wide color photography is coming to Android!

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Videos & Podcasts

Nate Ebel's talk from GDG Seattle I/O'19 Extended event. In this quick lightning talk, he shared about some of the recent updates to Kotlin from 2019.

In this show, Donn talks with Dan Jarvis about Machine Learning on Android with ML Kit and Tensor flow.

Android Q Beta 3 is here! New updates in this version include Dark theme, Gestural Navigation, and smart actions.

Events

Don't miss the Kotlin event of the summer in the heart of Europe! Kotliners offers a whole day of Kotlin, with two keynotes (by JetBrains and Google), followed by two tracks focusing on the cutting edge, and on practical Android development. Tickets are available in limited numbers, secure your spot now - use the ANDROIDWEEKLY-KOTLINERS voucher for 15% off!