Articles & Tutorials

Nikola Curilović covers distributing builds with Google Play Store (Internal App Sharing) and Firebase App Distribution using the open-source tool Fastlane.

NetworkBoundResource handles loading from the local cache or network resources but doesn't work in an offline mode. Pamela Hill updates it to handle this common use case.

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Damian Petla shares a way to paginate lists with Jetpack Compose

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In this article, Fred Chung examines 4 best practices to help you future-proof your app and plan for compatibility test cases.

Christopher Keenan explains how to publish Kotlin 1.4.0 Multi-platform Libraries to Bintray.

Menno Vogel describes the upgrade path from Instant apps to Android App Bundles

A collection of Jetpack Compose example code and tutorials

Denis Crăciunescu demonstrates how Kotlin provides native support for the delegation pattern with the use of the by keyword and delegated properties.

Build a simple hello world application that will run in Android and IOS with a single codebase using Kotlin programming language.

There are already libraries that will convert Markdown content to classical text spans and Views for Android, but in this post, Erik Hellman explores how to do it using Jetpack Compose.

Tuan Kiet shows how he decreased a 5-minute build down to 15 seconds

Catalin Ghita teaches the basics of setting up an android project with Hilt

Here's Lukas Vyletel's very short tutorial on how to use Dagger.Hilt if you don’t have time to read through the docs.

Bevan Steele looks at the SharedPreferences replacement that's available as part of Android Jetpack.

When it comes to the composition of composables, we may want to apply additional spacing to a composable's size constraints. Joe Birch shows how to do this with the padding modifier.

Mark Allison inspects the new Jetpack library named DataStore, a replacement for SharedPreferences.

This is an end-to-end tutorial on how to convert a TensorFlow model to TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) and deploy it to an Android app for cartoonizing an image captured by the camera.

You’ll build beautiful animations with Jetpack Compose Animations, and discover the API that lets you build these animations easily in this tutorial by Andres Torres.

Massimo Carli teaches how to use algebraic operations to better understand functional programming concepts like class constructs, typeclasses and lists in Kotlin & Arrow.

Márton Braun introduces Krate, a wrapper library built on delegated properties, and it makes storing values in SharedPreferences simple and convenient.

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Libraries & Code

BlurImageSwitcher is a lightweight ImageSwitcher library to switch images with a blur animation

LiquidSwipe is a viewpager library that can be used to make awesome onboarding designs

ConcentricOnboarding is a viewpager library that can be used to make awesome onboarding designs

A program analysis tool to find cryptographic misuse in Java and Android

Detecting Crypto Misuses for Android and Java Apps Dynamically

News

The latest Google Analytics for Firebase SDK release now makes it possible for you to log the screen_view event manually for both Android and iOS

A team of academics from Columbia University has developed a custom tool to dynamically analyze Android applications and see if they're using cryptographic code in an unsafe way.

Videos & Podcasts

Sean dive into what Compose is, how it came about, the different components and even architectures that work well with it. In the end Sean answers an important question about if Compose is production ready.