Articles & Tutorials

Need to convince your boss to move to Kotlin for Android development? Magda Miu shares background on Kotlin and why you'll want to use it, as well as links to helping you get started.

The Android community has had a love-hate relationship with AsyncTask. But Vasiliy Zukanov noticed some big news: the era of AsyncTask is about to end because a commit that deprecated it had just landed in Android Open Source Project.

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This blog post is the story of a strange issue that Mark Allison encountered recently serializing Kotlin singleton Objects.

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Damanpreet Singh shows how to convert an animated UX design into code.

In this blog post, Reinhard Hafenscher provides some insight into to what it takes to make keyboard navigation work smoothly and effortlessly and what the Android framework provides to make this job easier.

Kirill Rozov shows how to inject dependencies into Android Components constructors with Dagger 2.

Zac Sweers describes how to leverage Dagger qualifiers to hide intermediate dependencies.

Recently Josias Sena worked on implementing subscriptions in GraphQL (WebSockets) to allow users to talk to each other in real-time. This post describes findings and how this can be done.

In this post Dmitry Akishin shows how Kotlin's Delegated Properties can make a developers life easier in Android development.

Github has recently introduced a package management service where developers and organizations can publish packages publicly for the open-source. Prasad Pulikal describes how to use it.

In this post, Jesper Åman outlines the results modularizing an app and goes through some navigation patterns between destinations that are located within dynamic feature modules.

Kevin Galligan describes a draft PR which landed in the kotlinx.coroutines GitHub that will enable multithreaded coroutines in Kotlin Native (KN). This is a big deal for the technology, and a lot of people have been waiting for it.

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Libraries & Code

Kotlin Flow version of rx-preferences -- Coroutines support for Android SharedPreferences

EasyReveal is an extensible reveal library that contains various reveal animations

News

Firebase Authentication provides an end-to-end identity solution including passwords, phone numbers and popular federated identity providers such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft. Google now announced beta support for Sign in with Apple in Firebase Authentication.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Chris Banes, Adam Cohen, Dan Sandler, and Allen Huang about Gesture Navigation.

So in this brave new world where everyone is adopting more FP principles, do we just stop doing database operations? Listen to this episode to find out.

Hadi chats with Joe about the work he's done in his spare time to create an accessible guitar, to teach those that are challenged. A very inspiring tale of working to make things better for others in this world.

Profile of GDE Joe Birch and the guitar he built called “Chord Assist”, that will help to improve the experience for the mute, deaf and blind when it comes to learning the guitar.