Articles & Tutorials

In this post Mark Allison explains the basic theory of fractal graphics. He explains how complex numbers are working and how to generate this kind of visual.

Did you know that there is a destructuring declaration in Kotlin like in JavaScript? Thomas Sunderland explains when to use them to clean up your code.

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In this post Rohit Singh will explain how to modularize your app using Dagger. He will explain the motivations of modules and how to design interfaces that are backed by implementations.

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Jessica Dene Earley-Cha describes how to present Actions on Google suggestion chips dynamically to make your voice app more user friendly.

In this post, Nate Ebel introduces you to formatting Kotlin code with ktlint, and specifically focus on adding ktlint to your Kotlin project.

LiveData a great fit for storing and delivering ViewStates, but there is another type of information that view models need to deliver to views for which it is a bit less well suited: events. Ryan Harter shows a way to implement it.

In this Kotlin tutorial, Tino Balint shows how to create a DSL using Kotlin lambdas with receivers, builder pattern and extension functions.

Dmitry Si shares a simple strategy for dealing with exceptions.

Zarah Dominguez demonstrates how to add a Theme Showcase page to an app for visually debugging theme issues.

In this article Muhammad Saeed explores keyframe animation in motion layout and creates a card shuffle animation.

Pavlos-Petros Tournaris shares a way to reduce boilerplate when you have a highly modular project with many Gradle modules.

Another post by Dave Leeds about Kotlin sequences. This time you'll learn how to create your own sequence operation.

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Libraries & Code

Floating navigation view for listing items dynamically on Android.

A small but powerful & opinionated DI library. Written in Kotlin, and powered by annotation processing.

Simplifies sharing fields and communication between Android components with custom scopes that are lifecycle aware.

App written in Kotlin for budget tracking. The only thing that I'm missing is a license.

News

The Android engineering team will participate in another Reddit AMA on August 1st.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode Tor, Chet and Romain have a chat with Sean McQuillan from DevRel and Yigit Boyar from the Jetpack team to discuss what coroutines are, what problems do they solve and how to use them.

Events

Register now for Android Dev Summit 2019 on October 23-24, 2019 at Google Event Center (MP7) in Sunnyvale, CA.