Articles & Tutorials

First part of an article series by Jorge Nicolás Nogueiras on how to apply the SOLID principles to your architecture.

Nice and honest retrospective of adopting Dagger 2. It boils down to the fact that the architecture has been messy before and then dependency injection is worsen things instead of being beneficial - but if you're into adopting Dagger 2 for your app this article has some nice gems inside.

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In this post Peter Törnhult shares his finding of using MockK to test what’s being called inside runInTransaction.

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In this example, Enrique López Mañas shows how Git hooks can run scripts which allow you to automatically run checks on your changes, including unit tests and static code checks.

In this blog post, Oscar Wahltinez covers the basic principles behind the CameraX Jetpack Library in addition to a few ways in which the library has changed since its announcement at Google I/O 2019

Cloud Storage for Firebase recently launched support for listing files in buckets and folders. Doug Stevenson describes this new feature.

Chet Haase shares some things happening in the Android universe recently that are worth checking out.

Nick Butcher presents some techniques for writing smarter animations in your Android applications, specifically for making animations play nicely with reactive architectures

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a simpler way than setContentView to inflate our views? Bryan Lindsey shows how with a few recent AndroidX library updates, there is a simpler way.

The process of publishing an open source library to MavenCentral, and especially automating it, can be quite a headache. Márton Braun walks you through step-by-step with this thorough guide.

Neil Kakkar sat next to, and worked with a senior software engineer for a year. Here’s what he learnt.

Ahmed Rizwan explains a basic example of how we can use LiveData + Coroutine + ViewModel to map actions & UI state.

Google has added a new way of inflating layouts and the guys at Big Nerd Ranch have written a post about it. It's time to shove some lines of code from your views.

XML is out of fashion, but if you're still relying on that ancient technology then this article has some nice tips.

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Libraries & Code

A highly customizable calendar library for Android got some updates.

Contour is a typesafe, Kotlin-first API for complex layouts on Android from Square.

This sample showcases an Android app that uses both Flow and Channel from Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Coroutines binding APIs for Android UI widgets from the platform and support libraries. Supports Flow, ReceiveChannel and Actor.

A lightweight popup like tooltips, fully customizable with arrow and animations.

A nicer, redesigned and vertical SeekBar for Android.

Videos & Podcasts

Playlist of all the presentations from Kotlin/Everywhere Chicago 2019.

This week Donn talks about what pattern you should use when developing your application. Is it MVP? MVVM? Mabye MVI? Perhaps it’s something else. Find out in this episode.

This talk from Anton Spaans of Accenture Interactive explores how Rx and Coroutines can be used to make applications smoother and faster.

Mayuko explains how to stay up to date with new technologies as a Software Engineer.

Events

#AndroidDevSummit is coming, on October 23-24! While tickets have already gone out, you can sign up to join the live stream.