Articles & Tutorials

Magda Miu continues her series on CameraX, demonstrating how its use-case driven approach makes things like preview and capture relatively easy to implement.

Jetifier helps developers use libraries that reference older Android support libraries and update them to newer Jetpack references. Adam Bennett shows how to track down those libraries using a handy Gradle plugin.

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No matter what patterns you follow in your apps, you can end up with monolithic implementations that are hard to follow. Sergej Shafarenka shows an example of how a larger ViewModel can be broken down into smaller parts.

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Andréas Saudemont writes about how he created a custom Android view that draws a glowing progress ring with rounded ends.

In this blog-post series, Nicola Corti walks you through how to set up your CI with Github Actions.

Brandon McAnsh announces scrcast - an open-source Kotlin-first configure and go screen recording library for Android.

This in-depth article by Hari Sudhan covers Hilt, a dependency injection framework for Android that is built on top of Dagger 2

Suleyman Fatih Giris demonstrates a Hilt migration of a sample app that uses dagger-android for DI.

Paul Lammertsma covers how to customize your app’s look and feel and integrate with Android TV features.

In this post, Ataul Munim adds support for Google TalkBack (and other Android accessibility services) to a MovieRatings custom view.

This start of a three-part series by Mark Allison covers his approach and best practices for connecting to a specific WiFi SSID on modern and legacy devices using modern Android development techniques.

Sounds of India is a unique and fun interactive musical experience. The entire process of creating this experience took only 12 weeks, showing how rapidly developers can take models from research to production at scale using the TensorFlow Ecosystem.

This post by Gergely Hegedüs is about the process of getting to the end result of a simple application that overlays a sudoku's solution into the camera image of the puzzle, using Kotlin, CameraX, and MLKit.

In this post, Joe Birch dives into exactly what the Google Play In-App Review API is, how it works and how we can make use of it in our android applications. Congratulations on your 200th post Joe!

Jorge Castillo writes about Kotlin SAM support for Java interoperability and also for Kotlin interfaces starting on release 1.4.

Py continues the blog series focused on stability and performance monitoring of Android apps in production. Here he's refining the code to determine cold starts of an app.

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Drop-in Android Screen Recording Library

News

Google continues to see strong momentum and adoption of both Android Auto and Android Automotive OS and share new improvements that provide app developers the opportunity to reach more users in the car.

Google announced 6 new ways that are coming soon to help you continue to improve engagement and commerce on the TV.

Google shares some areas of investment focusing on the WearOS fundamentals, bringing even more helpful experiences to more watches, and giving users more choice in a device ecosystem.

Videos & Podcasts

Learn how to take the friction out of purchasing a subscription, creating and linking an account, and automatically signing in on Android TV.

Hadi chats with Vladimir about Compose from a user perspective. They go through the history of UI solutions that have been available for Android, and see how and where Compose fits in.

In this tutorial, learn how typography works in Material Design, and create a custom type system with expressive headline styles, readable body styles, and everything in between.