Articles & Tutorials

Milosz Lewandowski a look at the newly introduced Activity Result APIs, which add an ability to handle requests for Activity result in a type-safe way.

Mark Allison modifies a flat animation to take on a three-dimensional appearance.

In this post you'll learn about how to dynamically deliver parts of your app (e.g. A/B Tests or country specific code for recognising banking card numbers). You'll learn about how SplitInstallManager does the heavy lifting and what for caveats you have to look out for. Be sure to check out the second part as well.

In this follow up you'll learn a bit about Badoos take on RIB (Router, Interactor & Builder) and how they split up a real world application.

In this post by Alex Zhukovich you'll learn how to put state in your Jetpack architecture. You'll learn about @Model and @Composable functions and how to use them to declaratively create your UI.

In this data privacy tutorial for Android with Kotlin, Kolin Stürt shows how to protect users’ data.

Understanding and using framework callbacks correctly can help mitigate common errors. Charles Muchene shows how to employ tools and libraries such as the Android Studio profiler and LeakCanary to assist in uncovering hidden issues within your code.

Pin-Sho Feng shows how to leverage the Kotln compiler to ensure that we can only have valid models so that it's impossible to have incorrect cases.

This article shows you how to significantly speed up the detekt task in a multi-project Gradle build.

Mark Murphy takes a look at Android R Developer Preview 2

Mohit shares how to test delays, retries, and errors with Flows. He's also added useful tips and things to watch out for when unit testing.

In this blog post, Joe Birch builds the first Kotlin Multiplatform module which will be used to handle the networking layer of an authentication feature.

Giorgos Neokleous describes full-screen intents, as well as how and when they should be used.

A Deep Dive by Somesh Kumar into Motion Transitions with the new update of the Material Design Component Library.

Oscar Wahltinez provides a brief overview of CameraX Jetpack Library and shares what’s new in Beta.

Vipul Asri shows how to use the power of Jetpack Compose to build dynamic screens.

Marcin Moskala enumerates the advantages of both enums and sealed classes.

Android's build tools come with a few ProGuard facets for your release builds. In this post, Zac Sweers covers what they all are, what's inside 'em, and what you can do with this knowledge!

In this article, Shreyas Patil explains the basic concepts of the popular Dependency Injection framework Dagger by using a simple example.

Android OS will kill your app in the background to reclaim the resources and memory. Wajahat Karim shows how to handle it as a developer.

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Libraries & Code

Foodium is a sample food blog Android application built to demonstrate the use of Modern Android development tools - (Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, Architecture Components, MVVM, Room, Retrofit, Moshi, Material Components).

A quick and easy in-app database viewer and manager library for your Room databases.

Some fluent Kotlin expressions for a single if-else statement, nullable and boolean.

News

Join us online for the Google for Games Developer Summit on March 23rd and learn how the new Google Play Asset Delivery can help with: flexible delivery modes, texture compression targeting and automatic updates.

Dave Burke, VP of Engineering at Google, shares the next milestone release of Android 11 for you to try.

Videos & Podcasts

This video is about the Introduction fundamentals of Kotlin

Coroutines in Kotlin simplify asynchronous operations on Android. In this video, we go more in depth about why coroutines are important, how they work under the hood, how a coroutine can suspend without blocking threads, and much more!