Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Dave Leeds answers the question of “When should I use sequences, and when should I use normal collections?”

In this tutorial, Pablo L. Sordo Martinez helps you become familiar with Kotlin generics so that you can include them in your developments to make your code more concise and flexible

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View Binding is Google’s shiny new approach to avoiding findViewById and a variety of issues that come with it, and Mark Allison describes why he thinks it is pretty good.

Philosophical Hacker Matt Dupree describes some scenarios where he feels it's better to not write tests.

Doug Stevenson shares some practical examples for securing your Firebase backend.

Joe Birch describes the new View Binding feature coming in Android Studio 3.6. IT is a feature that allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views.

Eldad Fux introduces Appwrite, a new open-source, end to end backend server for frontend and mobile developers that allows you to build apps a lot faster.

In this blog post, review the types of alerts Crashlytics provides and the recommendations on how to configure them based on observations from customers.

Nicola Corti describes Chucker 3.x, a fork of the unmaintained Chuck library, which comes with a lot of new features and improvements that will hopefully improve your developer experience.

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Libraries & Code

A LEGO® Catalog app illustrating current Android Architecture state using Android development best practices.

Google announced that all Android samples will now be available on GitHub

A Kotlin MultiPlatform Sample App (Android, iOS, JVM & JS). MVVM/MVP - Kotlin MultiPlatform

An HTTP inspector for Android & OkHTTP (like Charles but on device)

Gradle plugin to enable Kotlin build configuration secrets for Kotlin, Kotlin-Native / Multiplatform

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With Android 10, Google has reverted to the pre-Nougat behavior, and WebView is now handled by a separate app again.

Tools

An open-source end to end backend server for frontend and mobile developers

Videos & Podcasts

Hadi sits down with Annyce to discuss the use of Kotlin features and whether or not we're often abusing these in detriment of creating maintainable code.

Gabriel Peal from Tonal introduces us to the MvRx Framework and Jenn dives into the Jetpack Network Architecture Component.