Articles & Tutorials

Márton Braun describes how he's implemented an interesting animated clock using Jetpack Compose.

Gant Laborde examines how to use a set of drawings along with TensorFlow to train an AI that classifies a drawing into a Hogwarts house.

This article by Ian Alexander is an experiment looking at how the architecture patterns we’re all familiar with transfer into the Compose paradigm.

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Eric Silverberg shows how initializing your app’s database at startup is sometimes easier said than done! Follow his techniques to assure that it happens appropriately.

Ivan Sanchez writes about his experiences with convincing server-side Java developers adopting Kotlin.

This quick blog post helps you solve the error “Type state has no method getValue” when first starting to observe state on your ViewModel.

Mark Allison published a post on how to monitor changes in connectivity status. Since then, he has found some improvements in how to handle this monitoring, hence this follow-up post.

In this article, with the help of an experiment, Yury attempts to understand the real cost of using a high number of data classes in an application.

In this Kotlin Playground tutorial by Fernando Sproviero, you’ll learn how to use the online tool to write, run and share your code for different targets like JVM, JS and JUnit.

This practical codelab will teach you the basics of developing for dual-screen and foldable devices. When you're finished, you'll be able to enhance your app to support devices like the Microsoft Surface Duo and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2.

Nicolas Haan suggests that logs can be useful on a daily basis if done correctly. Here are some tips to do better logging from your Android App.

Py and his team have been writing the same window helper code over and over, so they decided to group all of it into a small helper library.

In this article, Raul Hernandez Lopez continues his series on declarative UIs and elaborates on the implementation details from the Business layer to the View layer using unidirectional data flow patterns.

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Libraries & Code

Lift the curtain on Android Windows! Curtains provides centralized APIs for dealing with Android windows.

vgo is a tool (and a Gradle plugin) for optimizing vector artwork files that helps ensure your vector artwork is represented compactly without compromising quality.

Tablespoon helps you bind attributes easily in your custom views using annotations to generate boilerplate code.

Extensible Android mobile voice framework: wakeword, ASR, NLU, and TTS. Easily add voice to any Android app!

Sesame is a set of architecture components for Android development. It is based on modern technologies including coroutines and Flow. Sesame is simple to learn and easy to use. It is ideally suited for MVVM and MVI architectures.

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News

Google Fonts now supports open source icons, starting with the Material Design icon set

Google Play Console has launched a suite of new metrics* and unique comparative benchmarks. You can evaluate your app or games’ engagement and monetization trends against up to 250 different peersets.

Welcome to the second week of the #AndroidDevChallenge! Everyone loved seeing the creative submissions in week #1 so we can’t wait to see what you’ll build in week #2.

This article takes a look at what's changed in the Android ecosystem for audio developers recently, the audio latency of popular Android devices, and discusses Android's suitability for real-time audio apps.

Numerous well-known companies have launched the Mobile Native Foundation, which provides a place to collaborate on improving technologies and processes related to shipping large-scale mobile apps.

Manuel Vivo announces that Google has released a new doc that collects all the best practices that they've advocated for over the years.

Videos & Podcasts

In this video, Jovche Mitrejchevski starts working on a Signup screen to have a form to create an account. We get an initial grasp of how it feels to write UI using Jetpack Compose!

In this first episode, Manuel Vicente Vivo and Caren Chang will run through the recently updated Kotlin coroutines codelab and answer your questions live, on March 10th.

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk about what they could do — or not do —to improve Android Developers Backstage.

Android Developer Relations Engineer Ben Weiss gives us a preview for WorkManager; from basic usage, threading, custom configuration, multi-processing over debugging and testing to migrating deprecated code to WorkManager.

In this episode, listen to the new Kotlin Project Lead, Roman Elizarov, who tells us all about the Kotlin team, their areas of focus, and their plans for the future.

All the Kotlin presentations from FOSDEM 2021.