Articles & Tutorials

Márton Braun documents everything you’d ever want to know about opt-in annotations, and more.

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Ralf Wondratschek shares a journey about how to measure build times for Android

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In this third post of the series, Udit Verma looks at rememberUpdatedState which is another API related to side-effects, although it does not start a new side-effect like the ones we’ve seen before

Rafael Costa introduces Compose Destinations — a code-generating library that tries to improve navigation in this new Jetpack Compose world.

Vipul Thawre shares a way to capture a Composable as a Bitmap.

Marcin Moskała wrote this article to help you understand how exceptions propagate from child to parent in basic builders, and how they can be stopped.

In this tutorial, Pablo Gonzalez Alonso teaches how to combine Jetpack Compose and the repository pattern, making your Android code easier to read and more maintainable.

This article shows you how to use TensorFlow Lite to extract text from images on Android devices.

This post by Paul Blundell explains how to implement and build your app with non-transitive R files to make it incrementally faster and your AAB/APK’s smaller.

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Libraries & Code

A dual-function menu button that offers a default action as well as the possibility of choosing a different action by selecting from a set of alternatives.

Small code generating library for safe Jetpack Compose navigation with no boilerplate

Sample app for Generate JPEG image for Compose View

Contact Store is a modern contacts Android API written in Kotlin. It utilises Coroutine's Flow to notify the developer for updates happening to the Contacts database.

Compose Preferences is a library which makes it easy to add preference functionality to your Compose app

News

The AndroidDevSummit is back! Join on October 27-28 to hear about the latest updates in Android development directly from the Android team, and connect with Android developers around the world.

Android Game Development Kit (AGDK) was released in July, and Google has collected some top questions from developers - ranging from AGDK libraries and tools, optimizing memory in Android, and implementing graphics.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode Kate Petrova shows 3 tips that will help you work with Kotlin Collections

In this video tutorial by Bhavna Thacker, learn about Ranges and Progressions in Kotlin.

In this video, you will learn how to validate and debug your Android app Analytics implementation and events using Firebase built-in Debug View.

Ryan Kay explains how he managed to teach himself complex programming topics and became a teacher who thousands of people go to for advice.

In the seventh episode of Idiomatic Kotlin’s #AdventOfCode series, take look at numerous Kotlin techniques while solving code puzzles.

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor have a chat with Selim, Vadim and Lucas from the Android system UI team, discussing many of the new features in Android 12's user interface.

Rahul Pandey considers to what extent should you "memorize" solutions to coding problems in technical interviews.

In this episode, learn how implementing proper color contrast for elements in your application is crucial to providing a good experience for all users.

TJ Dahunsi introduces Paging by integrating the library into the data layer of an existing app.