Articles & Tutorials

Cedric shows how to get into the swiping game with the beta version of Motion Layout.

In this post Mark Allison takes a look at how ViewPager2 differs from ViewPager, and how to implement it.

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In this final part, Sebastiano Gottardo and David Lázaro make the existing migrations work with Room and handle the seed database, then flip the switch to Room.

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When Mohammed Audhil started writing test cases, he was sure to use DI, mock server response, and it took a while to come with a fully functional flow. He shares it here step-by-step.

Android Data Binding is great, but it also comes with some problems mainly caused by code generation. To try to fix those issues, Paulo Sato created a library with no code generation, no code in your XML, just a few files using extension functions.

Uberto Barbini investigates how Kotlin let you use Java collections as if they were implementing Kotlin interfaces.

Zarah Dominguez continues this series for on-device debugging. Here she describes how an app includes a set of actions in the built-in developer options.

Your icon is one of the most important assets in your app. Jeroen Mols shows how make use of the newer adaptive icons that are available on Android O+.

Rebecca Franks shows how diving into using the Android Canvas class can unlock magical super powers you never knew you had!

Master some hidden gems of Android Studio and improve your overall development efficiency with these Android Development tips and tricks from Nishant Srivastava.

Py shares the epic story of debugging leaks for Square POS in Android Q

Connie Reinholdsson shows how Lottie's dynamic properties allows us to target specific animation properties and update them at runtime in response to an event.

In this article Matt Carron explores Lottie’s animation listener and some of the possibilities it enables.

In this Picasso Tutorial, Aldo Olivares teaches how to use Picasso to load images from different sources and how to apply filters and transformations

Design

Jesse Prehodick describes how the product design community has grown and matured, people have started putting more thought into making sure the products we design are usable and enjoyable by everyone, even those with disabilities or conditions

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Libraries & Code

Kotlin Databind library was made as an alternative to the Android Databind Library, this was constructed to be used with LiveData, so no changes to your ViewModel/Presenter is required to use this

Delect automatically substitutes Dagger for Dagger Reflect for faster local builds

Videos & Podcasts

In this talk, Simon Wirtz teaches about Kotlin concepts like reified generic types, function literals with receiver, internal DSLs, built-in delegation, infix functions, operator overloading, inline classes and more.

Donn sits down with Buffer Android Lead, Joe Birch. They break down the concept of what Clean Architecture is in a manner that is easy for even a beginner to understand.

Nate Ebel shows how to quickly validate and format json in Android Studio and IntelliJ using the Json Viewer Plugin.