Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Magda Miu recaps what clean code is, highlights the importance of defining meaningful names, and shows how to write clean functions and classes.

Sid Patil shows how we can chain functions together to apply their effects on an object in one go with a composite pattern.

A quick post by Paul Blundell to give you some pointers on how to use Google AdMob banner ads in an Android Jetpack Compose view layout.

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Gustavo Fão Valvassori discusses the problems he found when trying to implement the AVLoadingIndicatorView library in Compose.

Sealed interfaces were just introduced in Kotlin 1.5 and are a very powerful new feature. This article teaches when to use and when to not use this newly achieved power.

Yahor Urbanovich demonstrates one of the key benefits of AndroidX Datastore 1.0: the built-in support of Kotlin Flow and Coroutines.

Ruben Quadros teaches how to create lists and handle pagination in Jetpack Compose.

Shubham Panchal shows how to perform the fastest-ever image segmentation in Android.

Mattia Ferigutti introduces how to best use interfaces and abstract classes to create class hierarchies in your Kotlin Android apps.

Murat Yener takes a look at some of the more advanced features to make your widget more interactive, easier to configure, and provide a better UI experience on Android 12.

The Duolingo team was able to solve performance problems and regain developer productivity by refactoring to a Model-View-ViewModel architecture and using Android Jetpack’s Dagger and Hilt for dependency injection.

In this article, Manuel Vivo takes a look at why dependency injection (DI) is important for your app and Hilt, Jetpack’s recommended solution for DI on Android.

When migrating an app to Jetpack Compose, we might run into a variety of situations where we need to (or it makes more sense to) utilize existing Android Classes instead of a Compose equivalent. Joe Birch shows how it's done!

Victoria Gonda shares a way to use test fixture files with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) to ensure that each platform is behaving as intended.

Mathias Roth describes how he and his team built support for Conversation Bubbles, the challenges they faced along the way, and how they overcame them.

Brady Aiello shows how KaMP Kit, a simple-but-not-too-simple sample project to help those considering Kotlin Multiplatform, was updated to use Jetpack Compose.

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Libraries & Code

A demo movie app using Jetpack Compose and Hilt based on modern Android tech stacks

A group of libraries to help you build better animations with Jetpack Compose

Pluto is a on-device debugger for Android applications, which helps in inspection of HTTP requests/responses, capture Crashes and ANRs and manipulating application data on-the-go.

Several essential libraries for Kotlin Multiplatform development: Lifecycle state transitions, StateKeeper, InstanceKeeper, and more.

News

Google is starting a multi-quarter program of improvements to make ratings more personalized and indicative of the experience each individual user can expect, and to make them easier to navigate and use for developers.

Videos & Podcasts

In this video, Waseef Akhtar explores how easy it is to create a list of items using LazyColumn by creating a simple Puppy Adoption App.

Watch as Coding in Flow updates an app's UI to Jetpack Compose.

Manuel Vivo will introduce dependency injection (DI) and Hilt, Jetpack’s recommended solution for DI on Android.

Anton Arhipov introduces Kotlin 1.5.30, which brings in a number of interesting updates.

Nate Ebel focuses on 10 tips for building production Android apps using Jetpack Compose. He discusses some concepts and tips that have been helping his team in their current production Android app.

In this episode, Chet, Romain, and Tor talk with Chris Craik and Rahul Ravikumar from the toolkit performance team.