Articles & Tutorials

Implementing database migrations with Room just became easier, with the help of auto-migrations, introduced in version 2.4.0-alpha01. Florina Muntenescu shows how easy they really are!

This post by Michel Onwordi shows a simple setup for running an integration test between Compose and a ViewModel using Hilt.

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In the previous article, Py established that the naive approach to measuring Tap Response Time isn't accurate and doesn't scale. Here he builds a better implementation step by step, on top Jetpack Navigation.

In this article, Avinash Agarwal takes a look at a way to create a navigation drawer and navigate between different screens using the navigation component from Compose.

Testing your code is crucial for many reasons and Deniz Demirci demonstrates those through this article with examples.

Several tips from Carlos Mota on getting all the bleeding edge Android developer tools working together.

Recently Igor Escodro decided to port his whole application, Alkaa, to Jetpack Compose. These are some lessons learned while doing the port.

Bryan Sills makes the case for giving generic types descriptive names instead of using single letters.

Cesar shows how several of Microsoft's Surface Duo SDK projects are automated using GitHub Actions.

Each time Google releases a follow-on developer preview, Mark Murphy rummages through the incremental API differences report, the release notes, and even the release blog post, to see if there are things that warrant more attention from developers.

Raul Hernandez Lopez continues his series, discussing reasons why Declarative UIs could be a choice compared with Imperative UIs and really “Why” it could be a choice that matters on Android.

Realm Engineering team decided to rebuild their SDK from the ground-up in Kotlin, and here they share some of the key design principles that guided the development of their Kotlin Multiplatform SDK.

Here's an article to help better understand CoroutineScope and coroutineContexts

Google deprecates RenderScript starting in Android 12

In this article, Márton Braun rebuilds an app in Jetpack Compose which formerly was using JetBrains' declarative Anko Layouts.

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Libraries & Code

Lazy and fluent syntactic sugar of Kotlin for initializing Android lifecycle-aware properties.

Open-source app to manage your tasks quickly and easily. The UI is now fully ported to Jetpack Compose.

News

Google has shared Developer Preview 3, the next milestone release of Android 12, for your testing and feedback.

Videos & Podcasts

This video covers one of the main features of the #Kotlin​ 1.5.0 #release​: inline value classes. Inline classes wrap values without any additional overhead

In this episode, Jov Mit works on making the signup screen look nice and polished. He introduces some animation which seems to be quite easy with Jetpack Compose.

Tor, Chet, and Romain talked with Rohit Sathyanarayana and Florina Muntenescu about the DataStore library

In this episode, Donn outlines how you can optimize your home office so that you look, sound, and perform the best that you can. From audio to video, to your body, and everything beyond, it’s covered here.

Learn more about sliders and how Material Components can be used in your app.

Nate Ebel dives into coding interview projects and looking at non-coding tips to help you get your next programming job.

This video introduces the new sealed interfaces functionality in Kotlin​ 1.5.0 and other improvements for sealed classes. It also touches on the topic of sealed classes support in the latest JVM versions, and how Kotlin will make use of it.

Specials

Google wraps up the April edition of #AndroidDevJourney by highlighting Android developers from all over the world each with their own unique experience

Gerardo Lopez Falcón has received a lot of questions about how to become a GDE. Here he lists several core values to work on towards becoming one.

Rebecca Franks has seen some really great resumes, so she shares some tips that may help you get your resume noticed – and hopefully get you that interview!

In this post, Mark Allison explains a bit about an early job opportunity he got which changed everything for him. He also discusses why it’s important to recognize and appreciate such roles.

Donn Felker writes about his experience with build a SaaS application, but quitting too soon to let it grow to its full potential.