Articles & Tutorials

Magda Miu shares a quick overview of the built-in logging capability in Android.

A few familiar faces from Google and the community came together to show you how to build an app using multiple Google Developer tools to detect crop diseases, from scratch, in just a few minutes.

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Marco Gomiero is in the early stages of a multiplatform project, and he walks through some of the decisions and implementation details when using Kotlin Multiplatform.

The Navigation component enables passing arguments with Bundles, and Chet Haase shows how those arguments can be passed in a typesafe way using SafeArgs.

Have you ever used an API and wanted to add functionality or a property to it? Meghan Mehta shows how this is possible with Kotlin extensions.

Android DataStore is a new way of storing the data, and it aims to replace the SharedPreferences. This post by Vlad Sonkin a brief story of how to implement Jetpack DataStore in an app and what the benefits are.

How are you feeling about working from home right now? Nate Ebel investigates how the current work from home situation is similar to and differs from more "normal" remote work.

Mark Allison continues the series by looking at the Fade transition and explores how and when to use them.

John Codeos shares examples of how to make the most common REST calls with Retrofit, using Kotlin.

Ivan Morgillo shares his second favorite time-saving feature in Android Studio: Surround With.

Colin White announces the release of Coil 1.0, a Kotlin-first image loading library for Android built on top of Kotlin Coroutines.

Reza's article is about migrating from Gson on to a relatively new serialization library for Android and Kotlin named Moshi.

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Libraries & Code

Image loading for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin extensions of Blurhash for ImageView, Glide, and Picasso optimized for Android.

Tutorials about animations with Animators, Animated Vector Drawables, Shared Transitions, and more

A GitHub action that builds your release notes / changelog fast, easy and exactly the way you want.

News

On November 15th, Google will be sunsetting the legacy Fabric SDK, meaning any apps that are still using the Fabric SDK will no longer report crashes.

Firebase Summit is returning as a virtual event on 27 October - 28 October 2020. Join for a keynote, technical sessions, live Q&A, demos, and code labs.

Google has launched new documentation covering how to use State in Jetpack Compose

Videos & Podcasts

Videos of presentations from Droidcon EMEA

Mohit Sarveiya presents on unit testing Kotlin channels and flows

Recordings of the mobile track from DevFest UK & Ireland. See the description for specific track times for the various presentations.

In this talk, Jonas & Dan review each of the transition patterns, when they should be used, and how they can be implemented with the new library.

In this livestream, Nick Rout goes through migrating an existing app screen from using Views and MDC-Android to the new Jetpack Compose UI toolkit.

Coroutines in Kotlin simplify asynchronous operations on Android. In this video, we explain the most common classes and functions used in coroutines. CoroutineContext, Job, Dispatchers, and much more!