Articles & Tutorials

Documentation for how to use SQLDelight on just Android is lacking, so Sam Edwards created this guide to get people going fast.

With proper architecture it’s easy to substitute dependencies inside screen under the test with fakes or mocks. Oleg Osipenko shows us how to do this using Koin.

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There's no better way to engage users in 2019 than by incorporating live video streaming into your application. In this tutorial, Wowza Media Systems walks through the GoCoder SDK for Android and shows you how easily you can live stream.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to leverage the PorterDuff image blending method to achieve better shapes of images or nice effects.

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Joe Birch takes a look at how we can authorize our application using the OAuth2 flow using Chrome Custom Tabs to satisfy our authentication requirements.

This article by Tomáš Šurín focuses on basic techniques for managing memory usage in applications — such as web browsers, photo editors, and PDF viewers — that have large memory requirements.

This second article by Pamela Hill seeks to explain the fundamental design principles for designers to make their work more accessible to a broader audience.

Yaroslav Berezanskyi shares some tips on decoding bitmaps efficiently.

Domenico Rotolo gives an overview of Smart Reply, a Firebase ML Kit API which, given a conversation, will return 3 suggested replies to keep it going.

Miguel Vargas announces a new Android multiple backstack bottom navigation library.

Mark Murphy announces AndroidX Tech (https://androidx.tech), a site that he is maintaining that contains additional information about the various androidx libraries, beyond what is offered in the official documentation.

In this tutorial, John Codeos shows you how to make a Custom Progress Dialog for your Android app correctly.

It took Aviv Yogev and his team a few months of research, design & development to release the very first version of an app that supports dark mode. Here he shares his conclusions and main focus points during the project.

Implementing dark themes is surprisingly deep and affects whole applications. Artur Dryomov tried to collect steps made to introduce the dark theme in an application and made a somewhat comprehensive guide.

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Libraries & Code

A polished and flexible ProgressView, fully customizable with and animations.

Bottom Navigator is a library for managing multiple Fragment backstacks controlled by the tabs of a BottomNavigationView. It has a simple API and is feature-rich.

Android application following best practices: Kotlin, coroutines, Clean Architecture, feature modules, tests, MVVM.

News

jetbrains announced the release of Kotlin 1.3.50 with quality and tooling improvements and some new features as well.

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Videos & Podcasts

Mark Webster cover the shift voice is driving in digital interaction, as well as advice on his approaches to get started with a voice-design workflow, focusing on actionable insights and takeaways for creatives and designers.

Android’s brand identity is evolving. So, they’re introducing a new look that is more modern and more accessible!

Videos of all the presentations from Droidcon Berlin 2019

Yacine Rezgui presents what's new in Android Studio 3.5