Articles & Tutorials

Promoting your app is one of the most important things you should be focusing on once your app hits the store. Here are some ways in which you can get your app in front of people who are interested in what it has to offer.

Animations \make our apps feel interactive, increase engagement, and make our designers happy. Gil Goldzweig Goldbaum looks at MotionLayout which makes it easy to create beautiful animations with a high level of flexibility.

Christopher Keenan describes a new Kotlin multi-platform library for annotating common code that will be dependency injected.

This article by Kurt Renzo Acosta aims to discuss code sharing between Android and iOS using Kotlin Multiplatform.

In this tutorial, Jenn Bailey shows how to create a conversational experience with Google Assistant.

FFmpeg is a great tool with many features available right out-of-the-box and supports integration with many external libraries for even more features. In this part, Alexander Berezhnoi shows the concept of integration of an external library as well as several specific examples.

Fred Porciúncula shares a real-world case in a coroutine test rule implementation.

In this tutorial, John Codeos shows you how easy it is to resize the icons and images for every screen size (hdpi,mdpi,xhdpi etc.) using the plugin Android Drawable Importer.

Creating views in Jetpack Compose is really easy but not all components have onClick listeners. Nikit Bhandari shows that this is where we can use either Clickable or Toggleable elements.

Stavro Xhardha describes how to ship an app that uses Room pre-populated with data.

Márton Braun analyzes a very good looking open-source Pokedex app that's been getting a lot of attention.

Dan Lew warns about the implications of using unique work with the APPEND policy when using WorkManager.

Lezhi Li introduces Manifold, a model-agnostic visual debugging tool for machine learning that can be used to identify issues in ML models.

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Libraries & Code

PaintableVectorView enables to change color of paths/groups in Vector Drawable

A SpannableString Parser for Android

A simple Kotlin multi-platform abstraction around the javax.inject annotations

A Pokedex app using ViewModel, LiveData, Room and Navigation

A model-agnostic visual debugging tool for machine learning

A beautiful Zoom Animation Library for RecyclerView Items in Android using Kotlin

Videos & Podcasts

In this video, Nate Ebel walks through how to create Android Studio device screenshots and use the Demo UI Android Developer Option to make these screenshots look clean and professional.

The Actions on Google team have launched the Assistant on Air podcast. Subscribe on your favorite channel and get new episodes straight to your feed!

In this episode, Tor, Romain and Chet chit chat with Nicolas Roard and John Hoford from the Android Studio team about Motion Layout -- and ConstraintLayout and visual editing in the IDE.

Specials

Mark Allison writes about confidence and how it can be built by confronting and overcoming the things that scare you, and you can build on that to the point where you almost forget that you were scared in the first place.