Articles & Tutorials

Zac Sweers introduces TickTock, a library for packaging the latest timezone database with your app (vs waiting for OEMs to slowly release them)

Timothy Asiimwe describes how the emergence of a dual-class app permission structure is handicapping developers in Africa.

Jetpack Compose is Google’s new Android UI Toolkit, and Jossi Wolf shows how powerful Compose view previews can be in Android Studio.

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WebP is an image format that is developed by Google, focuses mainly on optimization and quality. Seanghay demonstrates how to use it on Android.

Denis Valášek has created a comparison spreadsheet with a list of features and their availability for the new Actions Builder vs. the more established Dialogflow.

Alfredo Cerezo Luna examines writing unit tests for Jetpack ViewModels.

In this article, Vasiliy Zukanov explains three different “singletons”, which are related, but still represent different concepts

This time Mark Allison looks at animating heart shape alternating between a filled heart and an empty heart.

Magda Miu starts a new series on using the CameraX APIs.

In this post, Bevan Steele explores how to make a simple sparkline chart using MPAndroidChart.

Inserting a component in the middle of the Hilt component hierarchy is not possible. However, Manuel Vivo demonstrates how you can create a custom component with a Hilt component as a parent and access its scoped types using entry points.

Joe Birch demonstrates how to implement a Material-style FAB animation in Jetpack Compose.

The key quality of the code that we are looking to achieve is not concision, but readability. Roman Elizarov elaborates on how this applies to Kotlin's features used in development.

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Libraries & Code

A library for Android that notifies you when your app was restored after a process death.

A timezone data management library for the JVM and Android targeting java.time APIs in Java 8+

News

This blog post is part of a weekly series for #11WeeksOfAndroid. This week, Google spotlighted Android 11 Compatibility; here’s a look at what you should know.

Kotlin 1.4-M3 and getting closer to a Release Candidate. Here the details on the latest changes.

Google has added a new Codelab to the Kotlin Coroutines learning pathway.

Google announced that the TF Object Detection API (OD API) officially supports TensorFlow 2.

Over the past few years, Google has introduced new capabilities that enable them to deliver updates more uniformly, quickly, and efficiently to Android devices. Here's an overview of its success, and looks towards the future with Android 11.

Android 11 Beta 2 marks the Platform Stability milestone for developers and includes the latest optimizations and bug fixes.