Articles & Tutorials

Tan Jun Rong takes a peek at the latest in Compose, and more importantly, writes some sample code!

Those stacktrace log screens can be really useful when the app misbehaves, but what about those times when we just want to have checkpoints whilst using the app? Zarah Dominguez wraps up this series answering this question.

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Dmitry Si shares a simple strategy for dealing with exceptions.

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Amanda shares Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas with mocking in Android Unit Testing.

Tj shows the beginnings of a custom home automation hub based on Android Things with support for ZigBee and 433 MHz RF devices.

In this article, Mark Allison pushes the boundaries a bit and explores some interesting techniques that we can use with MotionLayout.

Ryan Harter takes a look at a simple approach to communication between the ViewModel and the view layer that allows us to have dead simple views and easily test the valuable code in our app.

From Android Q onwards there is no longer an on-screen back button, instead users can swipe from both edges to navigate back. In this blog post, Jeroen Mols presents a case study on how support was added for these back gestures in the Philips Hue app.

Daniel Santiago shows how Room 2.1 now lets you use Kotlin Coroutines by defining suspending DAO functions.

David Blanc introduces HttpMocker, a lightweight library written in Kotlin that provides an OkHttp interceptor to stop network calls and return a canned response from a scenario file or an in-memory rule.

In this first part of articles focused on App Actions, Joe Birch takes a quick look into exactly what they are, how they work and what they can do for our apps.

In this tutorial Kyle Jablonski shows what Scalable Vector Graphics are and how to create and manipulate Vector Graphics on Android.

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Libraries & Code

A simple custom Android TextView that highlights content such as Mention, Hashtag, Phone, Email and Url.

HttpMocker is s simple HTTP mocking library written in Kotlin to quickly and easily handle offline modes in your apps

News

Google is launching the Actions on Google linter for Node.js. The linter performs compile-time checks and alerts you when a webhook builds a response that doesn’t follow the documented requirements

Videos & Podcasts

Marcel Schnelle joins Donn in this episode to talk about how to get your application under test and some steps to go from scared to confident in your testing process.