Articles & Tutorials

Applying Material Shape is a very powerful tool, and Mark Allison shows why we need to take care and structure our styles, themes, and overlays to avoid maintainability issues while making careful shape choices.

For those starting out on Android, Magda Miu shares a cheat-sheet for Activities, Intents, and Bundles.

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Joe Birch dives into a small user flow for an app he's building and looks at how we can write automated UI tests for the screens involved.

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ViewModels famously solved the device orientation change problem. So as long as you save the state in ViewModel (instead of the Activity/Fragment) you are safe, right?

Viswanathan K P shares how he rewrote a search module and used the power of the Presentation layer to drive the app UI

In this blog post, Lukas Lechner will help you form a solid mental model about coroutines, this new emerging concept for modern software development.

In this post, Grégory Lureau goes further into the Jetpack ViewModel to understand the implications of adding this library into a project.

John O'Reilly examines how the Koin library can now be used in a multiplatform project.

Pamela Hill aims to take a step back and look at the bigger picture to answer the question — why do we need Jetpack Compose?

In this post, Amit Shekhar writes about using withContext and Async-await in Kotlin Coroutines.

App rewrites can have positive results, but they are challenging. In this post, the Snap Engineering team outlines some of their decision making processes and lessons learned from the experience.

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Libraries & Code

MVU for Kotlin Multiplatform

A little sample app for Jetpack Compose. It searches Unsplash for travel pictures for the destination of your choice, some nice travel eye candy.

Australia's COVIDSafe android app

The library for creating book and card flip animations in ViewPager in Android

This project by Igor Wojda maps the most important parts of the Android ecosystem (200+ tools, services, plugins & libraries).

This project contains various examples that show how you would do things the "Jetpack Compose" way

News

Microsoft announces the Fluent UI design system, with a common set of controls available for web, Android & iOS.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode of the Sandbox Show, Pierre-Yves Ricau and Emily Kager take a look at using LeakCanary to address some memory leaks in the open-source Firefox android app Fenix.

Sit down with Michael Pardo to discuss the MVU pattern, taking a brief look at all the other patterns that have existed for UI development over the years. We

Head of Design at Novoda, Leonie Brewin and Director of Strategy at Foolproof, Tim Loo, share insight into inclusive remote practises which can shape how your team and company collaborate, improve performance and culture - and why these aspects are so important to success

The next AsyncAndroid drop is available, with presentations on Room migrations and Making your app smaller in size.

Android Dialogs is back! Huyen gets on a video call with Eyal Ezmy and Marion Hayoun, Android developers and members of the Android Makers team

In this presentation, Fabio Collini shows how to leverage the Kotlin coroutines library to manage parallelism, from the basic concepts to some advanced example.