Articles & Tutorials

James Ewen looks at five interesting stats based on data from the last year. Then he's going to attempt to understand what these trends show, how it will affect monetization, engagement and other app metrics. He’ll also look at how developers can adapt their app strategy to suit these trends.

Skipped frames are a major issue because it can cause your application to look bad. Vasiliy Zukanov attempts to set the default warning threshold below 30 for tracking these issues in tests.

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A theming concept that was new to Ataul Munim was theme overlays. It’s a powerful technique that allows us to override only the attributes that are specified in the overlay itself.

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In this article, Márton Braun takes a look at implementing custom components easily by using Kotlin's delegates.

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This article describes animated drawable vectors and how to easily create them in your app. After reading this tutorial, you’ll be able to create an animation to morph from one icon to another.

Having used Dagger2 and played around with Koin and Kodein, Mark Ng believes that Toothpick 3 is the best DI library in terms of simplicity and ease of use not to mention testability.

Joe Birch looks at the Leanback library from Android Jetpack which aims to make Android TV app development simpler for developers. In this first article, he dives into the core part of the leanback library, the Browse Fragment.

Andrew Japar shows how to use Jenkins to automate building an APK or App Bundle and then publishing it to Google Play Store.

In her years of developing software, Angie Jones has come up with 10 rules that she follows to navigate code reviews. They have worked like a charm on every team she's ever been a part of, so hopefully they work for you.

Kent Beck explains the following: "Tests should be coupled to the behavior of code and decoupled from the structure of code. Seeing tests that fail on both counts."

Arnaud Giuliani shares some ideas about structuring development around a ViewModel. How can we set it up as States and Events? All of this has been packaged into a small library: Uniflow.

Rebecca Franks shares a quick dive into how she's used & over-used Kotlin extension functions.

Kirill Rozov shows some parts of Jetpack Compose, and how to get started with it.

I’m sure you’re just as excited as Adam Bennett about trying out Jetpack Compose. Now that parts of Compose are available via Maven, it's a lot easier to try it out in your own app.

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Design

Teresa Man shares some design tips to make your dark themes stand out.

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Libraries & Code

Simple Unidirectional Data Flow for Android & Kotlin, using Kotlin's coroutines and open to functional programming.

Flipper is a simple and useful tool to deal with feature toggles. It's not some secret weapon rather set of best practices to work with flipping features in your application, which is shipped as a library.

News

Android NDK r21 is now in Beta. Google has the usual toolchain updates, improved defaults for better security and performance, and are making changes to their release process to better accommodate users that need stability without hindering those that want new features.

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Videos & Podcasts

Videos from Android Summit 2019 in McLean, Virginia, USA.

Renette Ros shares how she got a game engine running in a web browser and on the JVM along with a simple example of starting with Kotlin multiplatform.

In this talk, Rebecca Franks covers what her experience has been like working on a Kotlin codebase.

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