Articles & Tutorials

In this tutorial by John Codeos, you'll see how to create Tabs with Jetpack Compose and be able to scroll between them using the Pager.

Dan Lew writes about a case where mixing JSON parsing and constructor default values can cause unexpected behavior.

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Kaustubh Patange introduces a new navigation library that works with Jetpack Compose as well.

Aida Issayeva writes about what Disposables are and how to use them.

Mark Allison outlines the various options for Bluetooth pairing that are available for different versions of Android.

Ivan Morgillo's quick tip for quickly enabling or disabling showing layout bounds from the command line.

In this first part, David Guerrero tries to define and explain a balanced approach for implementing an effective test strategy for Android projects.

When an app has great animations everything looks more fluid, it’s easier to understand how things fit together. In this article by Victor Brandalise, he'll show you how to implement them in your app.

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Libraries & Code

This is an android library to represent password strength

A sample Kotlin Multiplatform Compose Sudoku app for Android & Desktop.

A small navigation library for Android to ease the use of fragment transactions & handling backstack (also available for Jetpack Compose).

A Quotes Application built to Demonstrate the Compose for Desktop UI

News

More news about how Google is trying to cater to developers publishing apps to Google Play.

JetBrains expands its Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile ecosystem by introducing the Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) plugin for AppCode.

This blog post provides an overview of the updates in the Kotlin 1.5.20 release.

The final edition of #AndroidDevJourney spotlight features three Android developers, each with their own story to tell

Google is encouraging developers to get more apps on Wear OS, Android/Google TV, Auto, and tablets/foldables with the global launch of the Play Media Experience Program.

The Play Media Experience Program helps developers build best in class user experiences through deep product integrations

Videos & Podcasts

With this presentation by Sagar Viradiya, you'll learn about the advantages of using COIL and its image-loading pipeline.

Yev Kanivets describes his experience of writing Kotlin backend for mobile apps using Ktor.

In this episode, Donn talks about the importance of following code conventions and coding styles in codebases

Welcome to the second live Q&A of the Navigation series for MAD Skills, hosted by Android Developer Relations Engineer Florina Muntenescu on July 1st.

Save the date for the first webinar dedicated to #KMM on June 29, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, together with Kevin Galligan from Touchlab. They will be answering the top questions about KMM!

Kotlin 1.5.20 comes with various improvements for Kotlin/JVM, Kotlin/Native, Kotlin/JS, and the standard library. In this video, Anton Arhipov highlights features of this release.