Articles & Tutorials

In this post, Yang Chen shares his journey of finding the best solution for running Android Emulators on CI for opensource projects, from Bitrise.io to GitHub Actions.

The Jetpack “Guide to App Architecture” suggests that “the ViewModel should be communicating with a Repository”. Gabor Varadi shows why that doesn’t mean that you ALWAYS need a Repository in your code!

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Assisted Inject is an interesting feature of dependency injection but looks very weird at a first grasp. Let Łukasz Marczak explain when it could be potentially useful.

Quite often we’ve needed to display icons or text on top of colored backgrounds or images and we’ve run into contrast problems. Jorge Castillo show how to determine if light or dark is better against a color.

In this article, Joe Birch looks at the Container component in Jetpack Compose.

John Codeos shows you the steps to change your project name and package name in your Android project!

With so much change recently in the Android ecosystem, Vasiliy Zukanov decided to set aside some time to research it. This is his attempt to summarize what’s going on and make some predictions about the future of native development.

This article is about the best practices Manuel Vivo and his team found when using Flow in the Android Dev Summit 2019 app which has just been open-sourced.

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Libraries & Code

LiquidSwipe is a viewpager library that can be used to make awesome onboarding designs

Music player module implemented using Clean Architecture, MVVM, LiveData, Room, Koin, Coil, Service, Notification, and ExoPlayer

The Android Dev Summit app (adssched) is a fork of the Google I/O app (iosched) and was used as the official conference app for the Android Dev Summit in November 2018, held in Mountain View, California.

Kotlin Coroutines Flow binding APIs for Android's platform and unbundled UI widgets, inspired by RxBinding

News

Google has published a complete list of all KTX extensions available for use.

Videos & Podcasts

Inspired by some well-known architecture patterns like MVVM/MVI, Kaushik Gopal set out to come up with an agnostic set of principles that would help developers build features in their app in a robust, safe and testable way.

This presentation by Vipul Shah introduces you to Kotlin/Native and builds a Kotlin Multiplatform app that runs on both iOS and Android using shared Kotlin code

Whatever way you're writing asynchronous code, you want to do error handling right. Milos Marinkovic compares Coroutines and ReactiveX in this regard.

A little intro by Luca Nicoletti on how Jetpack Compose will help use a real MVI approach in the Android world.

Kotlin gives us a lot of possibilities, but with every power comes responsibility. What should we avoid doing in Kotlin? Marcin Moskała presents some examples.

Jacek Rondio checks out the latest changes in the Android Auto interface and functionalities

Specials

Mark Allison achieved a degree in a subject unrelated to computer science and then moved into the field later in life. In this non-technical post he explains why he made that choice, and how he feels it hasn't hindered his career in any way.

Márton Braun tries to go beyond giving simple, positive feedback and shows how to give constructive comments when someone cares about your opinion enough that they ask you for your thoughts.