Articles & Tutorials

Slower project build times may result in lower productivity. In this article, Joshua de Guzman provides a list of configurations and tips you can implement for speeding up your Android project's Gradle builds.

Rick Busarow shows why unless a class is truly a new implementation of CoroutineScope and intended to be used as such, it probably shouldn’t be implementing the interface.

When Jesse Wilson was learning object oriented programming I struggled to define boundaries between classes. He shares some one way to define these boundaries that has worked well.

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With the inconvenience of creating a UI in XML, and the appeal of a language that focuses on a specific aspect of an application, Milivoje Kojadinovic and his team chose to give Anko Layouts a try.

In this post Zarah Dominguez shares some interesting learnings she had whilst implementing static app shortcuts.

Mark Allison discovered that an AndroidX implementation of BiometricPrompt exists. In this article he looks at this and ports a sample app to use the AndroidX version.

How many times have you had to send a hot fix to an application, wishing there was a way to force all your users to update? David González shows how to do this with In-App Updates from the Play Core library.

Part five of this series by Jeron Mols shares quite a few useful tips and tricks for modularizing apps.

Adrian Ramirez Introduces Helios, a library for JSON handling that’s compatible with all of Kotlin’s types including nullable types and data classes, with few Java types like UUID and BigDecimal and also with some Arrow data types.

The most common question Ali Spittel gets from blog readers is "What is your advice for new programmers?" So, she thought it was time to write up her thoughts.

Kotlin has extension functions, which allows you to safely "add" a function to an existing type. One consequence of this is that compose() is entirely unnecessary when using Kotlin.

In this blog, Mustafa Zukic defines and discusses custom Views before moving onto the fun part - the implementation!

Jake Lee documents how to registering an update listener, and more importantly information on how to test your implementation.

Designing Kotlin Flows from scratch we also used opportunity to reduce some of the boiler-plate typically associated with reactive streams programming. Roman Elizarov describes this implementation.

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Libraries & Code

{Helios} is a purely functional JSON library for Kotlin built on Arrow

This project will work towards providing everything needed to help organize and run an independent conference

A logger facilitating lazily-evaluated log calls via Kotlin's inline classes & functions.

News

With Project Marble, the Android Studio team focused our efforts on making the fundamental features and flows rock-solid. To this end, they are sharpening their product focus and will only support 64-bit operating systems going forward.

Videos & Podcasts

Antonio Leiva describes how Koin is an alternative to Dagger that takes advantage of Kotlin features to make dependency injection much easier.

In this episode Tor and Romain have a chat with Chuck and Leland to discuss how Jetpack Compose works and some of the goals and ideas behind its design.