Articles & Tutorials

Chris Banes take a trip down memory lane to look at some of the people and projects that helped him get to where he is today.

There are three essential coroutine builders provided by kotlinx.coroutines library that Marcin Moskała explores in this article.

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In this series, Tuan Kiet walks you through the very basics of Dagger, hoping also to be the last Dagger tutorial you ever need!

In this series of blog posts, Udit Verma helps you to understand what different ways can we perform a side-effect in Compose. This first part talks about LaunchedEffect

Nav Singh teaches about accessibility in general and how to implement and test it in our applications.

Danish Amjad describes Google’s on-device ML Kit which introduced a useful API for Entity Extraction.

Yuchen Shi writes about MoveNet, the state-of-the-art pose estimation model that can detect 17 body parts from a live camera feed.

Yuchen Shi explains the Firestore Emulator Requests Monitor, which allows you to see requests to your local Firestore Emulator in real-time, and drill down to the details of each request, such as method, path, and Firebase Security Rules evaluation.

Jacob Lehrbaum lists some best practices behind app excellence.

David Serrano Canales shares a way to improve the store conversion rate of your app by adding beautiful and meaningful screenshots.

Pietro Maggi shows how Jetpack WindowManager, now in beta, is a library and API providing capabilities similar to the Android framework WindowManager, including support for responsive UIs, callback adapters for detecting screen changes, and window testing APIs.

Stephen Edwards explains why Square makes its own application framework.

Meghan Mehta presents the Block Store API to make logging back into the user’s applications on a new device as simple as restoring from a backup in the setup process.

This article by Will Shelor explores his teams' learnings related to the analysis of Jetpack Compose performance.

In this article, Shreyas Patil implements showing live connectivity status with Jetpack Compose in its own beautiful way.

Aleksander Jaworski shares parts of my thesis about Kotlin Multiplatform, based on a project which consists of an Android App, a Kotlin React.JS app and a Ktor server.

In this post, Rahul Sainani discovers the pitfalls of using hard-coded dimensions and shares a way to support different screen sizes.

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Libraries & Code

Music search, downloader & player app. WIP v2 with Compose UI and full rewrite/redesign.

This is an app that continuously detects the body parts in the frames seen by your device's camera.

Videos & Podcasts

Take a look at how imperative code can be rewritten in a more functional style. Also discuss how to work with pairs, use ‘reduce’, edit code in column selection mode, and fix integer overflows.

Adit Lal talks server-driven UI and John O'Reilly show how GraphQL can be used in shared code in a Kotlin Multiplatform project.

In this episode of 5 Kotlin Questions, Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, the lead of Kotlin libraries team, answers 5 popular questions about the present and the future of Coroutines.

Learn the 3 types of bottom sheets available and how to pick the one most suitable for your needs.

In this episode, Leland Richardson discusses Measuring Render Performance with Jetpack Compose.