Articles & Tutorials

Nice introduction by Pabi Moloi into the fundamentals of ARCore.

GraphQL is on the verge of deprecating REST. In this post by Biodun Olateju you'll learn the GraphQL basics: Queries, Mutations, Arguments and Variables, Directives and Fragments.

Nice deep dive about the .idea directory and what of its contents should live in your version control.

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This article by Aaqib Hussain focuses on the main similarities and differences between Swift and Kotlin, including implementation, style, syntax and other important details.

Liz Nelson describes an Android apprentice’s journey to understand Pandora’s migration from AsyncTask to newer APIs.

Build speeds are an important issue when it comes to Android development. In this post Mark Allison looks at how we can significantly improve build speeds by utilizing a build executor machine with Mainframer or Mirakle.

Gradient descent is an algorithm that’s used to solve supervised learning and deep learning problems. Matt Dupree shows why the algorithm works and how you’d implement it in Kotlin

In this tutorial, Victoria Gonda teaches how to use and create live templates in Android Studio so you can write code more quickly.

The purpose of this post by Antonio López Marín is to show you how to integrate your Kotlin Multiplatform common module into two different mobile platforms.

Vasiliy Zukanov decided to invest a bit more time to recall how he disabled Crashlytics processing in debug builds and summarized his finding in this article.

Matt Dupree thinks using Dagger is a good idea, but there are some things he might have done differently in adopting Dagger if he were starting today.

In this post Andrey Kazarovets covers some tools to increase the performance of your app. He'll cover many performance aspects like memory leak detection, ui-block detection, fps logging and resource monitoring.

FFmpeg is a beast! Code and license wise. Great story by Alexander Berezhnoi on how integrated FFmpeg into his app - be sure to checkout part I as well.

FFmpeg is a beast! Code and license wise. Great story by Alexander Berezhnoi on how integrated FFmpeg into his app - be sure to checkout part II as well.

A collaborative list of awesome jetpack compose resources.

In this post Chris Cooper will cover the options if you want to cancel a Kotlin Coroutine.

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Libraries & Code

Android GraphView is used to display data in graph structures.

A demo project using The Movie DB based on Kotlin MVVM architecture and material design & animations.

News

After more than a year of development and months of testing by early adopters, Google is ready to introduce Android 10 to the world!

Stable AndroidX releases are the best releases and Ian Lake announced a ton of stable release: Navigation 2.1, AppCompat 1.1, Preference 1.1, Fragment 1.1, Activity 1.0, Lifecycle 2.1, Core 1.1, Media 1.1, MediaRouter 1.1, Media2 1.0, and more.

Videos & Podcasts

Astrid Novicky elaborates on the ups and downs of working with Kotlin, building a new online platform for a mentoring organisation 'One Million Mentors' using Kotlin with SpringBoot as API ecosystem.

A presentation by Pamela Hill and Jacques Smuts at JavaConf Johannesburg 2019. They compare RxJava, Coroutines and Star Wars for Android Development.

GDE, Freelancer, Teacher, and Author Erik Hellman helps us process Android Threading and Jenn takes us back to 101 with starting points for jumping on the Android Development Path

Donn and Kaushik talk about testing RxJava streams with a Kotlin extension method and how and when to test various scenarios.