Articles & Tutorials

Nested tests in Junit5 allows us to group test cases. Jarosław Michalik shows how to do this in presenter tests.

Hilt's annotations support injection only for some basic system classes. What happens when you encounter a system class but you need to inject? Bevan Steele shares how to do this.

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William Gouvea shows a way to wrap your analytics classes into a simple set of classes to make it easier to add or remove libraries.

Kruti Kamani starts to create the UI of the Flower app from Dribbble shots and will show how to create this simple UI with Jetpack Compose.

Providing visual feedback to the user is very important. In this tutorial by Jemma Slater, you’ll learn about Dialogs, Snackbars, and Toasts.

Danny Preussler shows that by using interfaces or abstract classes you not only get rid of all the duplications in the implementation of a ViewModel, but can focus on the functionality as well.

It’s possible to run different components of your Android application in different processes. Dan Lew shows that you should be aware that the new AndroidX App Startup library may not work as you expect it to in this case.

The Floating Action Button is a core component in applications that lean into material design. Joe Birch shows how to compose a multi-action FAB.

Alex Zhukovich proposes to replace LiveData with StateFlow and SharedFlow from Kotlin Flow because it solves LiveData issues and gives few additional benefits.

Sam Edwards shows why to use immutable data structures with MutableStateFlow to avoid unexpected behavior.

We have 5 ways how to show a message in Android, but the question is, which tool to use in which case? Vlad Sonkin helps you decide.

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Libraries & Code

Donut is an Android library which helps you to easily create beautiful doughnut-like charts.

Android Studio plugin Helps you to have full control of your project and device

Skelly is a tiny library for displaying skeletons while the content itself is loading. All skeletons are completely synchronized across the whole application no matter how many of them visible on a screen at the moment.

A collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose

News

Google has wrapped up another series of MAD Skills videos and articles - this time on Kotlin and Jetpack.

Videos & Podcasts

App discovery and deep linking are two easy-to-implement features to help users discover your Smart Home Actions and smart devices that are compatible with Google Assistant

Welcome to the live Q&A of the Kotlin and Jetpack APIs for MAD Skills series hosted by Android Developer Relations Engineer Chet Haase

This series of 20 videos by Rahul Pandey takes you step-by-step to create a simple game app and publish it to the Play store.

Android Fragment Lifecycle is complicated, and official documentation is even worse. But don’t panic; Vlad Sonkin explains it in an easy way to understand and use it correctly.

Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Android Magda Miu shares how you can leverage Kotlin to speed up developments and improve quality.