Articles & Tutorials

In this post, Jossi Wolf explores the Navigation component’s support for Jetpack Compose and takes a look under the hood!

Waseef Akhtar continues his series on Jetpack Compose navigation, showing how to add a detail view that a list view navigates to when clicked on an item.

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In this article, Adib Faramarz explains how he had his first A-ha moment trying to create a Sudoku app with Jetpack Compose.

Halil Ozercan decided to implement a beautiful animation in Jetpack Compose.

This post by Erik Hellman is the first in a series where he aims to explain how to use the BLE APIs on Android to their full potential.

Mark Murphy examines Beta 2, which has a bit more change in the API surface than you'd expect… and yet still does not have everything that might yet show up in Android 12.

In this article, Alex Anisimov provides a brief overview of the most popular Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile libraries and shed some light on what motivated the authors to create them, and hopefully inspire you to contribute yourself.

Bhavesh Misri teaches how to create a Gradle plugin within your existing Android app, or as a standalone project that you can publish and use in any Android project

Ian Lake's deep dive into handling multiple back stacks using Jetpack Navigation.

In this article, Manuel Vivo shows how to create an application-scoped CoroutineScope using Hilt, and how to inject it as a dependency.

In this post, Mark Allison explores some testing strategies for Jetpack Compose and discusses how we can design our composables for testability.

In this post, Nate Ebel walks you through a bit of a case study into this build monitoring process to quickly catch regressions in the build process.

Sam Edwards creates a custom Gradle task, which is a great way to write your own behavior to accomplish this using the Gradle build system.

Mohit Sarveiya goes over all the features of Coroutine state flows and shared flows using unit tests.

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Libraries & Code

SquircleView is a library which provides you with Squircle views to use for buttons, views, etc.

A Gradle plugin that infers Proguard/R8 keep rules for androidTest sources.

Gradle plugin which validates the licenses of your dependency graph match what you expect

News

Google has released the second Beta of Android 12 for you to try. Beta 2 adds new privacy features like the Privacy Dashboard and continues our work of refining the release.

Google introduces some new Firebase Extensions which allow you to add pre-built and tested functionality with just a few clicks.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, listen to Nabil Hachicha and Claus Rørbech from the Realm team talk about the Realm Kotlin Multiplatform SDK project

In this episode of Kotlin Standard Library Safari, Sebastian Aigner speaks all about advanced collection functionality!

Nate Ebel is dishing out some career advice for Android developers to help understand the essential skills required for Android app development - and to understand which might not actually be essential.

In this episode, Chad and Jeff from the Android Security team join Tor and Romain to talk about… security

In this stream, Adam McNeilly takes a look at a bug created in his Jetpack Compose code, writes some tests for it, and fixes the bug.

In this video, Paulina takes a closer look at two values that are set in the build.gradle file: compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion