Articles & Tutorials

Vlad Sonkin explores the most recent share sheet updates and some new tricks.

Short and easy to use, default arguments allow you to implement function overloads without the boilerplate. Read on and let Florina Muntenescu describe how default arguments work under the hood.

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Roman Kamyshnikov's concise summary of various articles and talks about the use of Kotlin coroutines in Android.

In this post, Yawei talks about how Kotlin implements and optimizes lambda expression from a bytecode level.

Adam Hurwitz shows how using the Model-View-Intent pattern (MVI) provides the ability to test built-in to the pattern following the best practice of Test Driven Development (TDD).

In this post, Gaurav Goyal considers Kotlin Flow, its advantages, and use cases.

In this article, Jorge Castillo considers what it means to think of suspend as a Kotlin stdlib mechanism for flagging and tracking effects at compile time.

In this tutorial, Harun Wangereka builds a simple Reddit clone that loads pages of information gradually into an infinite list using Paging 3.0 and Room.

Often an open-source project will have API keys, auth tokens, and other secrets that definitely shouldn’t end up in source code. Jake Lee shows how to handle these secrets when building via GitHub Actions.

Rebecca Franks decided to use Github Actions to automate as much of the application release process as possible. Here's how she did it.

In this second part, Isai Damier covers how to design your code to handle the different aspects of biometric authentication.

Isai Damier covers how to invoke BiometricPrompt with or without encryption and the difference between auth-per-use vs time-bound encryption keys.

Zarah Dominguez finds a challenging part of learning a new codebase is navigating through the data flow. She shows how setting and navigating via bookmarks can help!

Murat Yener shows how Kotlin makes delegation easier by providing support for class and property delegates and even containing some built-in delegates of its own.

Brian Gardner updates and adds a modern touch to an earlier article on adding a Launch/Splash screen to your app.

Mark Allison shares his experiences and some insights on being a freelance developer to help decide if it is the right path for you.

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Libraries & Code

KtRssReader is a Kotlin library for parsing RSS feed on Android

Orchestra is a collection of Android custom view compatible libraries for Jetpack Compose

News

JetBrains announces they will release Kotlin 1.X every six months. These releases will be date-driven, not feature-driven.

JetBrains shares the Kotlin roadmap for the next six months.

JetBrains released version 1.0 of the multiplatform serialization library, kotlinx.serialization

Firebase introduced two improvements to Remote Config’s app version targeting functionality - New semantic version number targeting and improved iOS version number targeting

Videos & Podcasts

Playlist for Google Assistant Developer Day (GADD) with all the latest product announcements, newest features and tools, and Google Assistant DevRel answering all your questions!

In Kaushik & Donn's 200th episode, they talk about Serverless Programming. 🎉 A huge congratulations to them for reaching the 200 episode mark! 🎉

App Actions is how developers can integrate Google Assistant into their Android App. Dan Myers explains key concepts and implementation steps for App Actions.