Articles & Tutorials

In this follow-up post, Vasiliy Zukanov shows you how he writes complex and clean concurrent code without frameworks. This demonstration should cover both the questions about more complex scenarios and concerns about the feasibility of this approach.

Bryan Herbst recently found himself struggling to get bottom sheets to show rounded corners properly, so he created this guide to getting them shaped properly!

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Florina Muntenescu shows how RecyclerView now offers a new API to let the Adapter block layout restoration until it is ready. Read on to learn how to use this new API and how it works.

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Stuart Kent describes ways to ensure safety when there are relationships between nullable parameters in a function.

In this second part, Ataul Munim shows how default styles help us remove unnecessary configuration by moving style declarations to our theme.

Dave Leeds' illustrated look at When and If commands in Kotlin.

Sam Edwards does a side-by-side comparison of what the biometric prompt looks like on the Pixel 4, Pixel 3, and an API 26 Emulator to show you what it looks like on different devices, hardware, and different builder configurations.

One of the foundations of Material Design 2.0 is the ability to define shapes to reinforce the branding being applied to our apps. In this short series Mark Allison will go deeper down the rabbit hole to explore some of the more subtle things that we can do with material shape.

Antoni Castejón García is quite familiar with using RxJava for reactive flows, but has recently found benefits to using Kotling Coroutines' Flow instead.

Joe Birch shows how to set up your continuous integration for your GitHub repo using the relatively new GitHub Actions.

In this article, Animesh Roy teaches the fundamentals of threading, background processing, and of course Kotlin coroutines with a simple android specific practical example

In this post, Jaewoong Eum shows how to build a network structure and handle success, failure data from the responses using the new Sandwich library.

Waseef Akhtar shows how to achieve an animated splash screen using the latest version of MotionLayout.

Wojtek Kaliciński describes how to modularize your app and take advantage of Android App Bundles conditional delivery features.

Two options for internal app distribution are available to Android developers. Peter-John Welcome explores both of these options to see which one suits us best.

Danny Preussler's pragmatic guide to dependency injection on Android.

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Libraries & Code

An Android weather application implemented using the MVVM pattern, Retrofit2, LiveData, ViewModel, Coroutines, Room, Navigation Components, Data Binding and some other libraries from the Android Jetpack.

A lightweight Android network response API for handling data and error response with transformation extensions.

The UK's NHS has released the source code of the Beta of the NHS COVID-19 Android app

Mozilla offers GeckoView, a full-featured replacement for Android's WebView.

News

Google has heard your requests for improvement as well as some frustration, so here are some steps they're taking to improve the Google Play developer site and processes.

Join Google as they unveil new features packed inside the next release, Android 11, as well as updates for developers to help them get the most out of modern Android development.

Videos & Podcasts

In this 100% FREE course by Donn Felker, you'll learn the Kotlin Programming Language. Clocking in at over 9 hours of content - over 130 lessons ... all 100% FREE. Many thanks to Donn for making it available to everyone!

When asked about career advice for software developers, how to stay up to date is by far one of the most asked questions. Nate Ebel highlights some recent Q&A focused on how to stay up to date as a mobile developer, and even more specifically how to stay up to date as an Android developer