Articles & Tutorials

Ivan Morgillo shows how ArrowKt's tools can help with writing simpler code when using nested sealed classes.

The year is slowly coming to an end, so it’s just the right time to look into what’s new around test automation frameworks. Petzl Stephan lists 5 new frameworks you might not have heard of yet.

Does your app have the potential to impact millions of people worldwide? Make sure it can reach as many as possible with these best practices for Android app internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n).

In this Jetpack Compose tutorial by Alex Sullivan, you’ll learn to use the new declarative UI framework being developed by the Android team by creating a cookbook app.

Arkadii Ivanov shows that Decompose and JetBrains Compose libraries, when used together, allow us to share most of the code, including navigation and UI with multiple platforms.

MotionLayout helps us build complex view motions based on user interactions, while automatically reversing that motion, all out of the box. Balarka shows how to do it.

Kotlin Coroutines introduced two Flow types, SharedFlow and StateFlow. Patrick Steiger writes about substituting LiveData with one of those new types, or both.

Alex Zhukovich explores ranges in Kotlin to understand how it can simplify development. In the end, he creates a custom range for the delivery time of a restaurant base on open and close time.

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.

Paul Blundell explains the ‘show type hints’ feature of IntelliJ.

LiveData is a part of Android Architecture Components and represents an observable, lifecycle-aware component. In this article, Vlad Sonkin demonstrates the role of LiveData in architecture with 3 simple tips to use it even better.

There are a collection of things that we can start or continue doing to make the transition to compose smoother when the time comes. Follow Joe Birch's guide to get your apps ready.

Chances are you are familiar with Jetpack's ViewModel and the unidirectional data flow. But how does it fit in with the new Jetpack Compose? Let Bevan Steele explain.

Learn how to run your side effects bound to the @Composable lifecycle with this article by Jorge Castillo.

Zarah Dominguez wraps up here series on how to write a custom lint rule, with a way to write unit tests for the rule.

Roman Elizarov describes Kotlin Flow, SharedFlow & StateFlow, and how they improve the usability of coroutines.

Check out Dinorah Tovar's series on “Practical Network for Android Developers”, where she'll cover topics from HTTP and Network Layer all the way to Testing, Mocks, and Integration.

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Libraries & Code

Jetpack Compose image loading library which can fetch and display network images using Glide, Coil, Fresco

Kotlin Multiplatform lifecycle-aware business logic components (aka BLoCs) with routing functionality and pluggable UI (Jetpack Compose

News

If your app uses background location data, you must submit a form for review and receive approval by January 18, 2021 so your apps can stay on Google Play.

Andrey Breslav is stepping down as the Project Lead for Kotlin. Roman Elizarov is the new Project Lead.

In 2021, Google is continuing with their annual target API level update, requiring new apps to target API level 30 (Android 11) in August and in November for all app updates.

New Android Developer documentation on Kotlin Flow.

Videos & Podcasts

Kotlin makes implementing delegates easy and provides several built-in delegates in its library. In this video, we take a close look at these built-in delegates and see how they work.

Videos of all the presentations from Android Summit 2020.