Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Christopher Keenan provides some insights into the Java to Kotlin conversion process for a library.

Zac Sweers maps out how almost every single interesting project, blog post, or conference talk he's done in the past few years can be traced back to a very specific set of rabbit holes he decided to go down.

Tuan Kiet has a modularized project with the “per feature” approach, which means each feature will sit in its own module. Here's how he optimized build times while working on a single feature.

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Giorgos Neokleous shows how documenting XML attributes for your custom views is as simple as attaching an XML comment.

Mark Ng describes a scenario for tracking down slow builds on a CI/CD system.

Nate Ebel shares a handful of the tools that he uses and finds helpful during his day to day work as an Android developer, as well as some related/alternative tools to help provide some additional choices to you.

Stavro Xhardha shares an overview of what he learned about the Kotlin Flow API.

In this article, Vasya Drobushkov gives a short recap on threading in RxJava 2 (with some basic caveats on its usage) and then takes a look at how threading works in Kotlin Flow.

Carlos Daniel describes how to write a custom testing Rule to prevent from repeating setup code in all of your tests.

In this post, Süleyman Fatih Giriş explains how to use Flow with LiveData in the MVVM pattern.

This is the story of Aritra Roy and his team's app rewrite, in which he shares why they took this initiative, how they planned and executed it, the challenges they faced, the mistakes they made, and everything they learned in the process.

You've implemented a dark theme for your app, but what happens when the user runs into a WebView? Joe Birch shows how the WebKit package has recently worked on adding support for dark theming within WebViews.

With Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) it’s possible to build artifacts for multiple platforms using the same toolchain, but you need to build platform artifacts on their respective platforms. Alec Strong shows how this is possible using Github Actions.

Since writing more than 450 posts since 2011, Mark Allison has found a process and rhythm for writing blog posts. Here he shares them so that it might help others to find their own blogging voice.

There’s a lot of articles explaining how to use scopes and create scoped components in Dagger 2, but hardly ever it is mentioned where to store those scoped components. Alexander Sitnikov shares some examples.

Type safety helps us to write more robust code but historically could have performance implications. Florina Muntenescu describes Kotlin's inline classes, which offer the best of both worlds, type safety without the costs.

Jessica Earley-Cha describes Action Links, which lets you send users from their mobile web browser directly into the Google Assistant and your Action!

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Libraries & Code

A fluent way to apply gradations and tinting for Android.

IntelliJ IDEA plugin to send pushes using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

A reactive, interface-driven central role Bluetooth LE library for Android

Simple tool for browsing Dagger graphs generated via an SPI plugin

Videos & Podcasts

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