Articles & Tutorials

In this post Josias Sena will explain some caveats when your app needs to be able to switch between front and back cameras.

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In this article Amit Shekhar will teach you everything that you can do with OkHttp interceptors. Even if you're familiar with interceptors already you should check out his real use-cases section - there are some gems inside.

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In this post Bevan Steele explains how to leverage multiple resource folders to unclutter you default resource folder.

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Wojtek Kaliciński has addressed some of the feedback he got from developers who were using dynamic feature modules in their apps, making it much easier to test the modules.

Helios Alonso shares a method for showing the soft keyboard reliably with the least amount of side-effects.

Back in November 2019, Mark Allison wrote about an issue that can cause problems when serializing Kotlin objects. Here he demonstrates writing a custom Lint check for the issue.

Facundo Rodríguez Arceri thinks we should consider all options before writing code that depends on the BuildConfig.DEBUG constant. Here he shares a couple of good alternatives.

Nick Butcher focuses on actually using themes, how they are applied to your app and the implications for how you build them.

Jon Markoff demonstrates how the Jetpack Security (JetSec) crypto library provides abstractions for encrypting Files and SharedPreferences objects

To clean up our code ViewBinding code, Frank created a ViewBindingHolder class that takes care of the binding’s lifecycle and supplies some helper methods that keep the code in our fragments safe and short.

Are you passionate about community work and giving back? If yes, Wajahat Karim describes the steps to take to become a GDE for Android.

In this blog post, Vincent Tirgei shows a clean way to append the logged-in user’s OAuth2 token to a Retrofit API requests once the user has logged in.

With the power of Kotlin delegates and Jetpack Lifecycle components, Gabor Varadi shows how to ViewBinding into a single-line code change.

AndroidX libraries can release once every two weeks. Rahul Ravikumar shows how to use these snapshot builds in your own development code.

In this article by Josef Raska you'll learn how to avoid the God class and write cleaner code.

Nice real world insight by Facundo Rodríguez Arceri about replacing BuildConfig.DEBUG with flavors.

Nice reminder that in OOP composition is more powerful than inheritance. When? When you need to refactor! In this post by Bevan Steele you'll learn how to do it right in Kotlin.

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Libraries & Code

A library for Android that notifies you when your app was restored after a process death.

A Disney app using transformation motions based on MVVM (ViewModel, Coroutines, LiveData, Room, Repository, Koin) architecture.

News

Android Studio 4.1 Canary 1 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

Android Studio 4.0 Beta 1 is now available in the Beta channel

Google announced the stable release of Android Studio 3.6 with a targeted set of features addressing quality in primarily code editing and debugging use cases.

Videos & Podcasts

Nick Butcher, from the Google Developer Relations team, explains the importance of vector assets and how they can make your apps better and smaller. Find out more on Android’s vector formats, their capabilities, how to create them and how to use them in your apps.

Learn what sealed classes are, how to use them and how to leverage their auto-complete power in the IDE. Then, take a look under the hood at how sealed classes are implemented in the decompiled java code.

Android Studio 3.6 release introduces a split code/design editor view, ViewBinding, Apply Changes improvements, NDK updates, an upgrade to the emulator location component, enhancements to the Android Studio UI, and much more.

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