Articles & Tutorials

Christophe Beyls considers when to use LiveData vs Flows when implementing ViewModels. The decision about which to use isn't always straightforward!

Tom Seifers shows how to integrate Jetpack Navigation and ViewModels into a Compose UI-based application.

This article by Marcin Moskała is purely explanatory; it tries to explain how coroutines work.

In this article, Andrei Belous shows how to adopt animate*asState from Jetpack Compose for use with regular Android Views.

Alejandro Weichandt shares another story of Architectural components he and his team built. This one is about cached data.

In this post, Damian Petla goes through the process of investigating the code and figuring out why a Composable is re-composing more often than expected.

In this article, Suraj Sau walks you through the key portions of how to implement drag & drop in Compose UI.

Kushal Kumar R teaches how to use Android’s drag-and-drop framework to enable an advanced gesture-based user experience.

This article shows how to go beyond translations to create more inclusive experiences.

Eric Chang focuses on how to write tests with Hilt and some of the best practices to be aware of.

Alex Zhukovich covers how grid layouts can be built using Jetpack Compose in multiple ways, with different options having their benefits and limitations.

Adam McNeilly discusses the new live stream series he's starting soon to build a different type of todo list.

Ankush Gupta writes about what a migration to Kotlin Multiplatform taught Quizlet regarding the nuances of cross-platform development.

In this article, Márton Braun looks at various bits of configuration that you might have in build files that you don’t actually need anymore, or can replace with something simpler.

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Libraries & Code

Android weather app using Hilt, Coroutines, Retrofit, Jetpack (Compose, Room, ViewModel) based on MVVM architecture

News

Google announces the Indie Games Festival winners!

Google announces new guidelines to help support you in building high-quality apps your users love.

This event is designed to encourage current and aspiring Android Developers to gather and share experiences and knowledge. We will hang out, build community, and get to know folks in our community.

JetBrains has announced that the development preview of the new memory management approach for Kotlin/Native is now ready for you to try out in your project

Videos & Podcasts

In this talk on Android Accessibility, you will learn more about the Accessibility services that help many users with disabilities interact with apps that you have built.

Tune into this video to learn more about Nearby Messages API best practices to improve the quality and security of your user's experience.

In the fourth episode of Idiomatic Kotlin's #AdventofCode series, we will be tackling input sanitization and validation challenges.

In this episode, Dagger and Hilt Engineer Eric Chang will discuss Hilt's approach to testing, how to write tests in Hilt, and best practices/tradeoffs to evaluate when testing with Hilt.

Pamela Hill & Peter-John Welcome compare the Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI declarative UI frameworks.

Coding With Holger is joined by Marcin Moskala to talk about Kotlin and tech waves.

Specials

In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Gergely Orosz writes about the seniority roller coaster.

Do you really miss using `dip`s from XML when building your UI in Compose? Well, Paul Blundell has a treat for you!