Articles & Tutorials

The animation that Mark Allison works on this time is a mail icon where the flap of the envelope opens, and a page inside the envelope appears.

Deepanshu describes a new feature introduced in Android 9 for better battery(power) management called App Standby Buckets.

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In this blog series, Jamie Lee explores Kotlin/Native in-depth: What it is, what it can do, and what it can’t.

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Meir Ben Itay discusses how your Android application will behave on the Surface Duo.

Bevan Steele shows how using ViewModels in Android Jetpack is an awesome approach for decoupling business logic from Activities/Fragments, and is extremely easy to get started with.

Julián Ezequiel Picó explains, step by step, how to use Dagger to integrate different modules dependencies in your project.

When you're building an app using Clean Architecture patterns, how do you propagate errors between the layers? Duy Phạm shares an example of how to do this.

Use case classes, also known as interactors, are probably the most recognizable aspect of “Clean Architecture” school of thought. Vasiliy describes how you can implement use cases in Kotlin.

In this article, Charles Muchene traces how the ViewModel is created and survives configuration change.

Android Studio 4.0 comes with an updated Layout Inspector that lets you debug your Android app UI. Murat Yener walks through all its features and how it can be useful.

Have you ever wondered what Dagger does under the hood? Manuel Vivo shares a set of cheat sheets that describe what all that generated Dagger code means.

Luka Kordić wraps up this series describing the intricacies of file storage on more current versions of Android.

Florina Muntenescu introduces MergeAdapter, a new class which enables you to sequentially combine multiple adapters to be displayed in a single RecyclerView.

This article by Andrei Shikov goes through the implementation of a compiler plugin to auto-generate "readResolve" method to each object implementing java.io.Serializable.

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Libraries & Code

Translate Room schemas to Database Markup Language (DBML).

A navigation bar widget inspired on Google Bottom Navigation mixed with Chips component.

PowerPermission is a library to simplify process of demanding RuntimePermission.

News

Check out the list of finalists in 2020’s Google Play Indie Games Festival

Videos & Podcasts

On this episode of AoG Pro Tips, we will learn about how you can leverage action links to increase discoverability of your action to more users with Jessica Dene Earley-Cha

Meet Eliza Camberogiannis, a GDE for the Google Assistant. Eliza is a passionate Android developer who just recently joined the Google Developer Experts team. In this episode, we’ll learn how to extend your Android app to the Google Assistant.

In this first ever full-remote episode, Tor and Chet discuss audio programming with Don Turner from the Android DevRel team, and Phil Burk from the Android Audio Framework team

See what happens when you pass lambda functions as parameters, what inline does under the hood, and what you should be aware of when working with inline functions