Articles & Tutorials

Dialogs are among the most basic building blocks in Android applications. In this post Vasiliy summarizes what you need to know in order to use dialogs safely and efficiently in your Android apps

The paging library from Jetpack’s architecture components is a great utility for optimizing the data / adapter load. Nino Handler walks you through the simplest way to take advantage of this library.

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Luca Nicoletti had the opportunity to try out Jetpack Compose and check the potentials of this new way of building an app's UI.

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You have just built an awesome Android library but you don’t know how to publish it? In this article, Marco Gomiero explains the process that he use to publish his two libraries.

Vasya Drobushkov delves into the various strategies for converting Rx Observables to Single.

Yaroslav Berezanskyi gathered everything in one place to provide a complete technical walkthrough of Dark Theme implementation including the latest updates in Android Q.

A common debate in software development projects is between spending time on improving the quality of the software versus concentrating on releasing more valuable features

Jose Alcérreca shows how to write & use the Espresso testing framework's idling resources to make your UI tests fast and reliable.

In this tutorial Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz goes over how you would display a preview from the camera using the new CameraX library, and then use of the Firebase ML Kit labeling API.

Thomas Nield introduces a Koltin native library he has worked on for some time called Kotlin-Statistics.

Jon Fry shares a way to simplify data adapters by embedding lambdas in data classes.

Koin 2.0 stable version is officially out with six months of development, rewriting, API rethinking and users feedbacks analysis. Arnaud Giuliani shares what went into this new version.

With the introduction of CameraX to Android Jetpack, it only takes a few lines of code to record videos. Let’s build a video recording application with Marcos Placona.

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Libraries & Code

Knot helps managing application state by reacting on events and performing asynchronous actions in a structured way. There are five core concepts Knot defines: State, Change, Action, Reducer and Effect.

Idiomatic statistical operators for Kotlin

Videos & Podcasts

Hadi chats with Pamela Hill about code kindness, in which they discuss what constitutes comprehensible code and the things we need to be aware of when writing code.

Mihaela and Pascal talk to Hilal about how to scale packaging and distributing UI resources to devices. He also helps fight UI regressions and inconsistencies with the screenshot tests infrastructure he contributes to.

Nate Ebel teaches how to improve your pull requests by leveraging pull request templates to reduce the effort required to create descriptive, useful pull requests.

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