Articles & Tutorials

In the spirit of MythBusters, Calin Juravle test several myths have emerged about performance on Android. For this myth-busting, he uses real-world examples and tools that you can use.

Jorge Castillo closely examines the custom Pager implementation from the Compose JetCaster official sample.

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Package Visibility is the new feature of Android 11, and it changes how apps interact with each other. Vlad Sonkin describes what it is, what benefits it brings, and what do horse blinkers have to do with it.

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Mark Allison has looked at various aspects of Jetpack DataStore during this series of articles, and now examines the benefits of Protobuf.

This is the second post in a series by Caren Chang, where she takes a closer look at the lifecycle of a one-time purchase, namely the process of selling and granting users the digital item they purchased in your app.

This blog post by Caren Chang is the first in a new series on Google Play Billing 3, starting by exploring the basics.

Discover how to create a Docker image and remotely access the debugging information

Márton Braun examines how composition of classes can be simple using Kotlin's implementation by delegation.

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Libraries & Code

Shape-Safe Differentiable Programming with Algebraic Data Types

A Quotes Application built to Demonstrate the use of Jetpack Compose for building declarative UI in Android

Extensions for Moshi: moshi-ksp, moshi-ktx, moshi-metadata-reflect, and moshi-sealed.

Celebrate more with this lightweight confetti particle system

News

Join JetBrains for a deep dive into the latest Kotlin release, and mingle with the JetBrains Kotlin team!

Google’s Android Security & Privacy team has launched the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (APVI) to manage security issues specific to Android OEMs.

Google wanted to share some additional insights they’ve gained from developer feedback and how they’re taking that input to improve Google Play and Android.

This year’s Firebase Summit is a virtual event, happening 27-28 October at 9:30AM PST each day.

Google answers some common questions regarding in-app purchases and using Google Play billing.

Videos & Podcasts

Sam Edwards' presentation from Android Stream Day 2020

Hadi chats with Breandan about Differentials and Derivatives, and Maths in general. They look at where and how they can be applied to programming, as well as the Kotlingrad library.

In this episode, Peter-John Welcome talks with Julien Salvi about AR. They took a deep dive into ARCore and all its features especially the new ones like depth API and light estimation and spoke about alternative platforms such as Unity and Vuforia.

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Renaud Paquay and Joshua Duong from the Android Studio and Android Emulator teams.

Nate Ebel teaches how to build a multi-functional continuous integration pipeline for Android using GitHub Actions.

Android Stream Day, two days online event that will take you from Zero to Android Hero.

Android Stream Day, two days online event that will take you from Zero to Android Hero.