Articles & Tutorials

Rebecca Franks takes a look at the different aspects of the new Motion Editor and how you can create a MotionLayout animation within the Editor.

With coroutines, Lukas Lechner shows it is possible to perform expensive computations without ever leaving the main thread. However, he will also tell you why you should never follow this approach in a real production app.

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Jarosław Michalik introduces his  portal dedicated to testing with Kotlin.

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Ivan Morgillo starts a series of articles on useful IntelliJ/Android Studio plugins.

Bevan Steele found the RecyclerView docs lacking a bit on more advanced topics like swiping items or drag&drop, so he wrote this guide to help

Dariusz Kuc introduces a new lightweight, type-safe GraphQL HTTP Client.

The animation Mark Allison looks at building this time is an indefinite loading indicator that’s based upon the infinity symbol!

In this article, Stavro Xhardha uses Kotlin Coroutines & the Kotlin Flow API to implement an MVI architecture, specifically exploring the new StateFlow API.

Coroutines make our asynchronous code look sequential. Coroutines help us escape the callback hell. Coroutines save us from the complex reactive chains. Garima Jain looks under the hood at how coroutines really work!

One of the frequent challenges on Android is keeping the UI of the application in a consistent, sensible state. Márton Braun continues his series by looking at state handling on Android.

In this article, Doug Stevenson writes about designing for variable font and screen sizes on Android.

Why migrate to Jetpack AndroidX libraries? Anoop M Madasseri lists the reasons why.

Amit Shekhar teaches about the suspend function in Kotlin, which is the building block of the Coroutines.

Google has added a new documentation section on storage use cases and best practices.

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Libraries & Code

Android Pokedex using Dagger Hilt, Motion, Coroutines, Jetpack (Room, ViewModel, LiveData) based on MVVM architecture.

Collection of classes that helps you to manage a screen state

Intellij plugin that provides intention action for empty constructor

Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin

IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio plugin to generate binary compatible and Java interoperable DSL boilerplate

A Kotlin API for generating .kt source files.

Videos & Podcasts

This week's lecture by Nate Ebel will teach you how to implement simple MVVM using ViewBinding, ViewModel and LiveData.

In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked with Mady Melor and Artur Tsurkan from the System UI team about... Bubbles!