Articles & Tutorials

In this series of articles Joe Birch dives into each of the Jetpack Compose components that are available, exploring how we can utilize each of them within our applications. This time he looks at modifiers.

John O'Reilly shares an even simpler Kotlin multiplatform (Android & iOS) project.

Gabor Varadi shows you a few commonly recurring mistakes that some developers make by accident, that can potentially break your app.

Project Reactor and RxJava are two popular reactive libraries that allow you to program with asynchronous data streams. Shelby Cohen looks at how these libraries can be replaced, or used together with Kotlin's new Flow implementation.

Not everybody knows that Kotlin can also be used to create simple and elegant scripts! Daniele Bonaldo shows you how to make use of it.

Nick Felker discusses how to use session entities, an advanced feature of Dialogflow to improve users' conversations.

Jake Lee is transitioning a large app slowly from APKs to app bundles whilst retaining compatibility with existing processes generating both app bundles and APKs. The detailed explanations in this post should make it easier to implement into Travis or other CI.

Nate Ebel answers the questions: How do we keep track of important library updates? and How stable does a library have to be to consider using it in a production app?

This week, Rahul Chowdhury discusses how we can add subscript access to our custom data models through operator overloading.

AnimatedVectorDrawable and MotionLayout are great animation tools, but using them together is not easy. In this article, Mark Allison looks at why that is and shares a nifty trick to get them to collaborate.

Have you wanted to get started in tech blogging, but had no idea how to get started? Pamela Hill provides some pointers for you to start, taking you from beginner to successful writer!

Wajahat Karim takes a fresh look at the splash screen on Android in Kotlin using Coroutines.

Do you have a complex Android app where you would like to visualize your class hierarchy? Then scabbard might be an interesting project. Go and fight your god classes.

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Libraries & Code

Back stack functionality with back press handling for Jetpack Compose

Minimal Kotlin Multiplatform project using Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI

RxJava binding APIs for Google Play Billing.

Android InMemory and persistent Cookie Store for HttpURLConnection and OkHttp, with extensions to easily sync cookies in Android WebViews.

Videos & Podcasts

A presentation by Hannes Dorfmann and Kostiantyn Tarasenko on how a testing-first architecture such as MVI helps us to write and maintain efficient tests.

In this video, discuss dealing with Imposter Syndrome in programming and software development: What it is, why it is so prevalent and how to handle it.

Hannes talked to Sakis Kaliakoudas how Babylon Health build their Apps

Filip Babić goes over the majority of the Kotlin Coroutines API, with the emphasis on explaining how each component works, which principles and elements are used behind the scenes, and how you can utilize Coroutines in your code.