Articles & Tutorials

Anusree Sajeevan covers steps to create an Android library, blockers while creating it and how to resolve them.

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Ali Azaz Alam examines the features of the Android Jetpack Security library.

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Try Stream's brand new Chat SDK for Jetpack Compose today! The tutorial shows you how to add an in-app messaging feature with just a few lines of code, as well as the flexibility and customization options available for the components. All open-source, open for feedback and contributions.

Łukasz Bogusz shows how to work with Version Catalogs in Gradle 7.0 for centrally managing your dependency versions.

In this article, Amanjeet Singh introduces you to a tool that he found to be super useful for reproducing memory pressure conditions in any device.

Nikit Bhandari helps you understand how to use Scaffold in Wear OS to build apps using different Material Design components.

Nav Singh looks at the major new features that kotlinx.serialization 1.3 brings for developers to manage JSON parsing more efficiently.

James Nocentini teaches how to use fastlane to automate tasks like generating screenshots, updating metadata for your Android apps and uploading apps to the Play Store.

TJ continues his series on the Paging 3.0 library. In this article, he covers how to actually consume the Flow in your UI.

TJ introduces the Paging 3.0 library and highlights how to integrate it into the data layer of your application.

This article shows how using Firebase App Check helps mitigate fraud and secure access to your backend resources—whether those are Firebase resources or your own.

Wenhung discusses the challenges app developers face when working with camera exposure and covers how the new CameraX Exposure Compensation API helps to address these challenges.

Although not yet fully supported natively, Bevan Steele shows a way to implement drag & drop in a LazyList.

Bevan Steele gives a taste of one of the most basic building blocks of a modern UI in Jetpack Compose: lists

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Libraries & Code

A Jetpack Compose (Android + Desktop) modifier enabling reordering in a LazyList.

Kotlin implementation of Point-Free's The Composable Architecture

An awesome list that curates the best KMM libraries, tools and more.

A collection of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile libraries to aid in mobile app development.

Romain Guy updated and open-sourced the Jetpack Compose demo he showed in the I/O 2021 Developer Keynote.

Multidimensional array library for Kotlin

News

Jetbrains introduces Multik 0.1 – a new, enhanced version of their multidimensional array library.

Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) is a library built by our friends at Google, which provides an API to build lightweight compiler plugins. Alina Grebenkina announces that it has reached a stable release.

Join Google for the latest announcements on Google's machine learning products. They'll share highlights from the community and ways to get involved in the ecosystem. Learn what's new with TensorFlow, JAX, On-Device ML.

Google announces that Compose for Wear OS is in Developer Preview.

Google announced that the final unit has been released, and the full Android Basics in Kotlin course is now available.

Videos & Podcasts

Adam McNeilly wrap up the work for our login screen by talking about Hilt and how it sets up our core dependency injection for the application

Firebase App Check is a layer of security that protects your backend resources by verifying the request from your Firebase application. App Check can restrict access to Firebase resources, your own server, and much more

In this episode of Idiomatic Kotlin’s AdventOfCode series, we’ll look at different ways to manipulate lists in Kotlin to solve the puzzle. We’ll work with the ‘any’, ‘firstOrNull’, ‘firstNotNullOfOrNull’, ‘windowed’, ‘takeIf’, and ‘scan’ functions, which exemplify an idiomatic Kotlin style.

In this episode of Paging for the Modern Android Development Skills series, Android Developer Relations Engineer TJ Dahunsi will start using the pager for populating the UI

Check out the most interesting developments around Kotlin in September 2021