Articles & Tutorials

Playing videos is a common requirement in Android apps. In this tutorial, Bhavesh Misri teaches about handling video playback via the MediaPlayer API on Android.

In this post, Nate Ebel takes an introductory look at benchmarking Gradle build performance using the gradle-profiler tool.

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In this article, Malvin Sutanto writes about a move away from React Native to Kotlin Multiplatform in mobile apps.

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One of Ivan Morgillo's favorite IntelliJ/Android Studio plugins that he constantly suggests installing is Save Actions.

Donn Felker delves into how we might get attached to the code we build, and how that might affect us.

Dan Lew describes how his team ended up basing their mobile app branching strategy off of Three-Flow.

Ben Weiss shows why Android App Bundle is the new and official publishing format for Android applications.

Filipe Batista examines the new Bubbles API and shares examples of how to implement it in your app.

Sometimes we have designs that are not possible using the Framework or Material Components widgets as-is. Mark Allison walks us through such a case and how he overcame challenges in the implementation.

This post by Jamie McDonald outlines a model for developing mobile apps with a trunk-based workflow.

The Android App Bundle is the publishing format for Android Applications in the Modern Android Development world. Ben Weiss shows how you can take matters into your own hands and modularize as well as optimize installation even further using Play Feature Delivery.

Jeroen Mols continues his series on building libraries. This post covers how transitive dependencies of an Android library affect apps integrating it.

Adam Bennett and his team were wondering - how easy would it be to create a server-driven theme for Jetpack Compose in your app?

Coroutines are launched in the context of CoroutineScope, but how to ensure that we choose the right scope and don’t leak in memory? Vlad Sonkin walks you through the basics.

Bevan Steele starts an exploratory series of posts that examines the new Jetpack Compose toolkit.

Amr Yousef shares an example of how to set up Dagger injections for instrumented tests.

Hilt is a new dependency injection library built on top of Dagger that simplifies its use in Android apps. Filip Stanis showcases the core functionality with a few code snippets to help you get started with using Hilt in your project.

Murat Yener takes a look at Kotlin's built-in delegates and how they work under the hood.

Alex Pogrebnyak at IceRock has been developing applications on the Kotlin Multiplatform for 2 years now and shares some of the experience.

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Libraries & Code

gradle refreshVersions stores all the versions in one place in a Java Properties file and easily helps update to the latest versions.

An annotation and Kotlin compiler plugin for enforcing a when statement is exhaustive

News

Firebase has a few updates to App Distribution since launch.

Firebase has begun leveraging Gradle’s support for Android BoMs (or “Bill of Materials”), which provides a way to manage the versions for all the libraries you use by specifying a single BoM version for your app.

Google announced that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is migrating from its current build systems to Bazel.

Videos & Podcasts

The Android App Bundle is the distribution format for Android applications in the Modern Android Development world. Ben Weiss talks about the advanced features of Android App Bundles that enable Play Feature Delivery, and much more!

Android Developer Advocate Wojtek Kaliciński will walk you through some of the tools you should be using when handling Android App Bundles.

This week, Tor, Romain, and Chet are joined by a special guest: Colin White from Instacart. Colin is the author of Coil, a popular image loading library backed by Kotlin and Kotlin Coroutines.