Articles & Tutorials

In this post, Nate Ebel walks through a couple of examples on how we to make use of GitHub Actions triggered workflows for building Android projects.

In this article, you'll find a unified four-layer model for app promotion along with some additional recommendations.

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Danny Preussler shares how Kotlin types can prevent objects from having an illegal state or forbid illegal operation at compile time.

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Square has Android SDKs for building payments into your own app or even kiosks for in-person payments. We also have APIs to help you manage a business outside of payments—including keeping track of your inventory or taking orders in advance. Check out the new Square YouTube channel for developers.

Colin White explores how images and image loading libraries might fit into the upcoming Jetpack Compose.

TJ describes a cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing way to create an expandable floating action button in Android.

This post by Mark Allison covers some of the basics of the kotlinx.serialisation library, and what he learned along the way.

This week Rahul Chowdhury explores Kotlin's experimental inline classes which have benefits that type aliases provide but go even further.

Giorgos Neokleous suggests giving better filenames for your .apk files and shows the best way to set up your Gradle file for it.

Mladen Rakonjac teaches how to prepare a custom view so that won't fall apart when themes are applied.

This blog post is the second of two which explores how coroutines enable you to write complex asynchronous UI operations in a much simpler way. In this post, Chris Banes demonstrates how they fix a problem.

A companion app often is the very first contact point to the potential new customer. Juhani Lehtimäki shares numerous tips for improving a user's experience with one of these apps.

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Libraries & Code

An Android library module to Mozilla's Speech-To-Text services.

News

Kotlin aims to be a reliable companion for all your endeavors, a default language choice for your tasks. Kotlin 1.4 that is going to arrive in spring 2020 will make another step forward for the Kotlin ecosystem.

Videos & Podcasts

Based on insights into 5 million Android builds, Anna Bátki presents on how the world builds.

Pamela Hill presents the best practices for making your Android app accessible.

KotlinConf 2019 gets underway with the Conference Opening Keynote by Andrey Breslav.

Kakao by Agoda is a Kotlin DSL for Espresso to make UI testing easier. This talk by Pál Matolay shows you how it works, how to use it, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of the library.

In this episode, Kaushik tries to answer the question "Should I use a BaseActivity in my Android apps?"