Articles & Tutorials

Rodrigo Guerrero shows how to use Realm database on Android for data persistence. You’ll learn how to add it to your android app and utilize its features.

In this article, Shreyas Sharad Patil takes a look at how to follow good practices with ViewModels in Android.

Annyce Davis shows how it's possible to test apps that have UIs comprised of both XML and Jetpack Compose.

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Jetpack Compose does not have built-in liftOnScroll functionality for the top app bar, so Matthew Dolan shows how to implement this.

In this article, Thomas Künneth shows you a barely known Jetpack library, Palette, which can extract significant colors from an android.graphics.Bitmap.

Marcin Moskała writes about how to eliminate obsolete object references.

In this article, Nav Singh goes through the improvements that Android12 brings for Exact alarms.

Material components are helpful, but sometimes the UI you want to build slightly varies from the platform’s default look, style or behavior. Angelo Marchesin shares an example.

In this blog post, Anton Arhipov teaches a few useful functions in Kotlin that make set operations really simple.

Caren Chang describes how in WorkManager 2.6, there's now the ability for Workers to run in any designated processes, and is now released as stable.

Vasya Drobushkov describes one caveat with controlling a TextView's minimum width programmatically.

Zarah Dominguez describes what to do when something goes wrong with the accessibility support in your app.

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Jobs

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Libraries & Code

A highly customizable quantity stepper for android projects

Sample app that uses SlidingPaneLayout to adapt to dual-screen and foldable devices, and Jetpack Room for data storage.

A relaxing waves animation built with Jetpack Compose

A full-stack application showing the power of Kotlin, with an entire android app + backend APIs.

A Swift and Kotlin library for making composable state machines, and UIs driven by those state machines.

News

Several Wear OS libraries have been ported to Jetpack.

Get a glimpse into the future of Kotlin and how Kotlin removes barriers between ideas and working code. You will hear updates from the Kotlin team and news about the whole Kotlin ecosystem.

The process of creating a high-performing app is not always straightforward. To break things down, here are the main dimensions of high performance:

Apps targeting Android 11 (API level 30) or higher will automatically disable permissions when an app isn't used for a while. Now, however, users can enable permission auto-reset manually for apps targeting API levels 23 to 29.

Videos & Podcasts

Daniel Santiago overviews extensions for Hilt. He explains how to generate code, real world examples, Hilt Extension Annotations, and more!

In this episode, Eliza Camberogiannis discusses how to extend your Android app to the Google Assistant.

In this video, sit down with Mohit Sarveiya, Google Developer Expert in Kotlin and Android, to talk about everything coroutines.

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor have a chat with Gabriel Peal from Tonal, well known for his contributions to the Android community on projects such as Mavericks and Lottie.

In this episode, learn how to make text boxes in your Android app more accessible for all users