Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Martin Sumera shows you an example of how simple refactoring can lead to unexpected issues caused by side effects.

This post aims to summarize some important guidelines that were discovered throughout the years and gathered into a single place

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Kotlin build times are often slow, so Zac Sweers shared this laundry list of common issues and what you can or can't do about them.

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Thomas Künneth dives into the use of the new Jetpack Preferences library.

In this article, Shashank Mishra describes how to implement video playback in a list in Compose.

Ash Davies discusses how using effective design can help your engineers find the source of failures, quickly, effectively, and precisely, resulting in fewer side effects, and a faster feedback cycle.

Rodrigo Guerrero writes about lifecycle-aware components including what they are, how they work, how to implement your own components and how to test them

This article by Johann Blake explains how to create complex bitmaps using Jetpack composables

In this tutorial, Pavlo Stavytskyi goes through each step of creating annotation processors with KSP, so that you will have an understanding of how to use it for your needs.

In this mini-article series, Murat Yener takes a look at updating your Widget for Android 12.

Focus management is a little different in Compose versus what we’re used to in plain old Android, so Jamie Sanson takes a look!

A week ago, Mark Murphy looked at the contents of the JWT file created by the code transparency process. Here he peeks at how that gets verified.

John Codeos shows how to build a navigation drawer with Compose UI.

This blog post by Pierce Johnson should have everything required to get started with writing an enterprise-level plugin.

Arjuna sky Kok shows that destructuring declarations is a Kotlin feature that gives you a tool for easily extracting data from a collection in a simple and clean way.

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Libraries & Code

Pix is a Whatsapp-style image picker replica

Voyager is a pragmatic navigation library built for, and seamlessly integrated with, Jetpack Compose

Plugin and backend to convert Figma designs to Jetpack Compose code

News

Preview of Kotlin 1.5.30 With Native Apple Silicon Support, Improved Kotlin DSL for the CocoaPods Gradle Plugin, and More

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, learn about the UI Testing Strategy that is used in an Android App to deliver the best experience possible to users.

This video shows how to use Activity Result APIs since onActivityResult and startActivityForResult have been deprecated.

In this episode, Rachel Collins goes over updates to the Firebase console UI as well as user properties and user-scoped custom dimensions

Let’s continue learning how to write idiomatic Kotlin code by solving the Advent of Code 2020 tasks!. Day 2 includes looking at string utility functions, regular expressions, operations on collections, and how the "let" function helps to transform the expression nicely to the form you need.

Top 3 recap of the tools, features, and products announced at the Google for Games Developer Summit 2021

In this episode Nick and Chet are joined by Dois Liu and Nader Jawad to discuss Compose’s Animation and Graphics systems.

Android Performance Engineer Carmen Jackson gives us a preview on how system tracing and sampling profiling are used to debug performance issues in apps, and more!

In this episode, Donn dives into his favorite software book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code. He talks about one of the introduction level topics: The Legacy Code Change Algorithm

In this video, Spikey Sanju shows you how to build a books app using the power and simplicity of Android Jetpack Compose UI Toolkit.