Articles & Tutorials

Raul Hernandez Lopez demonstrates using StateFlow to get rid of callbacks.

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Nate Ebel shares a list of all the latest from this year that you should be aware of as an Android Developer.

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The Material Design Components library has introduced Material Transitions and Motion. In this series, Mark Allison looks at the different transitions and explores how and when to use them.

Android Sharing Shortcuts was introduced in Android 10, and it effectively replaces the old Direct Share API. Vlad Sonkin shows how Sharing Shortcuts use the push model, so the developer needs to prepare the shortcuts beforehand.

Enzo Lizama shows how to test the Architecture Components library included in the Android Jetpack suite.

Fred Porciúncula helps make your CI work for you and watch your dependency graph take shape.

This post from Nate Ebel demonstrates several approaches for surfacing Gradle build scans within GitHub Actions workflows; thereby making them more discoverable and hopefully more useful to a team.

Mark Murphy noticed that Android Studio 4.1 — or, more accurately, version 4.1.0 of the Android Gradle Plugin — has a breaking change: it no longer adds VERSION_CODE (and, sometimes, VERSION_NAME), to BuildConfig.

Hari Vignesh Jayapalan shares a story of how he came up with the solution for Configuration driven UI (a level below server-driven UI) in Android.

One of Ivan Morgillo's favorite features of IDEA/Android Studio is Live Templates. Here's an overview of the feature and how to create your own templates.

Chet Haase introduces some fundamental concepts of the Navigation component tool and APIs

Google has identified some common mistakes and violations that developers make, and are sharing these with the developer community with tips and guides on how to avoid them, mitigating the risks of apps and developer accounts being suspended for violating our policies.

Scope functions in Kotlin can make code more concise but can also ruin it if not used properly. Dmitry Si covers the typical scope function issues and gotchas and offers mitigation practices.

Isaac Udy feels that AndroidX Navigation is built on the wrong abstraction and doesn't have great out-of-the-box support for modules. So he's released Enro to be easier to use, less verbose, and integrate much more easily with multi-module projects

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Libraries & Code

Warning on new versions available even when using Kotlin-DSL plugin

A Gradle plugin to discover the dependency graph between the modules and run specific tasks only on changed modules and his dependents.

A simple navigation library for Android

News

Google announces two new features in the new Google Play Console: The Publishing overview page helps you better understand your publishing process and Managed publishing gives you better control of when your app updates go live on Google Play

Google has released the stable version of Android Studio 4.1, with a set of features addressing common editing, debugging, and optimization use cases.

Google announced that app developers could upgrade their Firebase projects to the next generation of app analytics. Upgrading enables them to view their app analytics data in Analytics and unlocks additional analysis capabilities.

Google has released the Android for Cars App Library into open beta for any developer to use. You’ll now be able to design, develop, and test your navigation, parking or charging app on Android Auto.

Videos & Podcasts

Welcome to Modern Android Development (MAD) Skills, a series of videos and articles we’re creating to teach you how to use the latest technologies of Modern Android Development to create better applications easier.

Join JetBrains for a deep dive into the latest Kotlin release. Kotlin 1.4: One for All! This playlist contains all the presentations from the event.

Delegation is a design pattern in which an object handles a request by delegating to an object called delegate. The delegate is responsible for handling the request on behalf of the original object. Watch now to see more from Murat’s tutorial on delegating delegates in this episode of Kotlin Vocabulary and stay tuned for the next session!

The Android Studio 4.1 release introduces a Database inspector, Dagger navigation support, a native memory profiler, improvements for Apply Changes, the ability to use the emulator directly inside Android Studio, and more!

In this episode, Chet, Romain, and Tor talk with Ryan Mitchell from the Android Framework Team. They cover the Android resources in general and the aapt2 tool in particular.