Articles & Tutorials

Adam Bennett takes the fire effect from the iconic game Doom and implements it using Jetpack Compose.

Implementing Night Mode in Android can be pretty straightforward unless you're dealing with several-year-old legacy themes. Daniele Bottillo shares a couple lint checks that will help you correct issues in your themes and styles.

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A flaky network is something we've all experienced. Some of you may have written code to deal with it and you know that these corner cases always lead to brittle code. In this post you'll learn about NetworkCallback and how to use it in your app.

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Javier Arroyo shares an examples of how to write a Kotlin Multiplatform app that communicates with Firebase.

Mark Allison continues looking at the extremely powerful ConstraintLayout, this time showing how to adjust the alignment to a group of controls without using container views.

Wajahat Karim describes some of the steps he took to become Pakistan’s first Google Developer Expert in Android.

Slightly changing an Android app depending on various configurations is quite a common scenario. Bevan Steele takes a look at build variants to help achieve this.

In this post, Vasiliy Zukanov explains what Callback Hell is and how to fix it in your code!

Sam Edwards answers the question and puts it into perspective.

Murat Yener introduces a new tool called Database Inspector which helps you inspect, query, and modify databases in your running app. It's currently available in the latest version of Android Studio 4.1

Joe Birch's quick intro to using Radio Buttons in Jetpack Compose

Nick Rout walks you through the steps needed for moving from Android Support libs to Material Design components versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0.

Jake Wharton demonstrates how Kotlin Serialization can be used to pass data between Android and Kotlin/JS.

Arkadii Ivanov has found that MVI is a perfect pattern to use when using Kotlin Multi-Platform. In this first part, he examines what MVI is, and how this can be applied in a multi-platform world.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

BL Taxi is a simple app for calling a taxi in the city Banja Luka built using modern Android development tools (100% Kotlin, Android Jetpack, CI pipeline and much more).

Nice list by Lukas Lechner about real-world Android Use Cases of Kotlin Coroutines.

Videos & Podcasts

Rebecca Franks describes her experience working on a Kotlin codebase. She covers some of the features in Kotlin used the most, some features eagerly overused and some of the mistakes made along the way.

Sit down with Jesse and Egor from CashApp (Square) to discuss how they decided to port OKio and OKHttp completely to Kotlin Multiplatform back when Kotlin wasn't even officially supported by Google

In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor chat with zero guests about the current work-from-home reality, and about adjustments we've all made as we change the way we work.

CameraX is a Jetpack support library created to make camera app development easier. Stay tuned to learn more about the CameraX API and use cases!

Nate teaches how to use object expressions to write anonymous inner classes, how to use companion objects to create factories, and how to use an object declaration to implement thread-safe singletons.