Articles & Tutorials

Joe Birch digs into the latest version of Android which gives to us the Splash Screen API.

Mark Allison shows how to build a side-by-side List/Details screen in Jetpack Compose.

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In this first part, Aleksander Jaworski shows a simplified version of a stopwatch implementation that will only handle one stopwatch.

Thomas Künneth completes his series on digging through Jetpack Compose's compiler, runtime, and foundation.

In this tutorial, Daniel Rampelt builds a custom weekly schedule layout in Jetpack Compose, which looks similar to the week view in Google Calendar or other calendar apps.

Christopher Elias shows that unit tests are NOT hard at all and shares several examples of how to implement tests of various complexity.

While extension functions are very useful, it may not be appropriate for all objects in a class hierarchy to be able to execute certain extension functions. John Hoegy shows how to add these limits.

Modern Android apps are frequently built atop RxJava. However, you may see UndeliverableExceptions in your crash logs. Stelios Frantzeskakis examines what leads to this situation.

Meghan Mehta writes about how Android 12 includes additional measures to ensure that touch events are properly passed to the intended apps to ensure an intuitive and safe UX.

This post by Zach Klippenstein explores the lower-level snapshot APIs in Compose.

This post is part of a series by Zach Klippenstein that attempts to explain how Compose does updates via its snapshot state system.

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Libraries & Code

Carousel Recyclerview let's you create carousel layout with the power of recyclerview by creating custom layout manager.

A tool that gives you a massive head start when building Compose Desktop apps. It saves you from time-consuming setup and configuration

News

The games teams at Google are back to announce the return of the Google for Games Developer Summit 2021 on July 12th-13th

If you want to stay up to date and follow all of the Kotlin team’s plans, review the public roadmap; they’ve just updated it to reflect our plans for 2021 and beyond.

Sign up for the Security by Design module wherein a few short courses, you will learn how to integrate security into your app development lifecycle, model potential threats, and app security best practices into your app, as well as avoid potential design pitfalls.

Please read Ekaterina Petrova's overview of the main KMM ecosystem highlights since going Alpha so that you don’t miss any important updates.

Videos & Podcasts

Adam McNeilly's live stream recording as he develops an Android app with MVI.

Nick and Chet talked with Adam Powell and Leland Richardson about the Compose compiler, the runtime, data flow, and that nifty feature where Compose knows when to call your Composable based on changes in data state.

Includes Kotlin 1.5.0 Highlights with Svetlana Isakova and Sebastian Aigner, Future plans for Kotlin with Roman Elizarov and a Q&A with the Kotlin team.

In this episode, Donn talks with Philipp Lackner about growing an online presence within the Software Industry with Instagram and YouTube.

In this episode, Nat Duca and Sumir Kataria from the Android graphics team talk about the graphics stack -- covering shaders, GPUs, Vulkan, OpenGL, ANGLE, drivers, blur, pixels and of course Chet's favorite topic; colors.