Articles & Tutorials

Melody Sabouri shows how easy it can be to build a trivia voice app for Google Assistant.

Mark Murphy poses some important questions about Play Store App Signing and what it makes possible.

Mark Allison continues his series on DataStore, a replacement for SharedPreferences. This time he looks at how to encrypt the data in DataStore, similar to EncryptedSharedPreferences from Jetpack Security.

Scoped storage is mandatory for all apps targeting Android 11. In this tutorial, Carlos Mota teaches how to implement the latest storage APIs in Android 11 by adding features to a meme-generating app.

Firebase emulator is a tool that helps us to test various firebase services in our local environment altogether. Burhanuddin Rashid goes through some examples of how to use it.

Navigation in Compose is somewhat different from the usual Android implementation. Gastón Saillén digs into a way to handle it in the world of Compose.

In this article Gastón Saillén demonstrates the power of Jetpack Compose to make a simple user list in just one line of code.

Meghan Mehta goes through the steps of creating a simple RecyclerView, and also breaks down the different pieces that a RecyclerView needs so you can try it in your own apps.

Py is currently reimplementing how LeakCanary computes the retained heap size of objects, so here are a few pointers on how it's done.

In this article, Abhishek Bansal shows how to use Half data type from the Android platform and also explore the caveats of it in polygon rendering.

Salomon BRYS introduces a new Kotlin/Multiplatform embedded NoSQL indexed document database for Android, iOS, and client JVM: KodeinDB

A quick tip from Bevan Steele on how to use the scrcpy tool to remotely view and interact with an Android device or emulator,

In this blog post, Sumit Mishra shows how to use Spans for styling our text used in an application.

Andrey Breslav examines a huge and largely invisible part of Kotlin which makes it compile much faster on relatively small changes that happen a lot in an everyday run-test-debug loop.

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Libraries & Code

An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations for Coil, Glide, Picasso, and Fresco.

Multiplatform NoSQL database

Chrome's Dino T-Rex game developed in Jetpack Compose

News

Following right behind the mobile release, Google's launching Android 11 on Android TV to bring the latest platform features to the big screen.

You can now use Google Play Asset Delivery to include textures in multiple texture compression formats in your Android App Bundle and the assets will automatically be delivered with the best-supported texture compression format for each device.

The old Play Console will be discontinued starting November 2, 2020. After this date, you’ll be automatically directed to the new Play Console when you log into your account

Videos & Podcasts

Host Dan Galpin explains how to improve the load time, frame rates, and size of your game by supporting modern texture compression with Play Asset Delivery

A tweet from a famous tech journalist about Android vs iOS spurs a storm. In this episode, Donn and Kaushik given their honest thoughts on iOS vs Android; and being developers for the platform.

In this video, go over the similarities and differences between the two workflows in Dialogflow and Actions Builder. You will learn about a migration tool that can speed up your migration process from Dialogflow to Actions Builder.