Articles & Tutorials

Victor Brandalise shares a roadmap that you can use to learn Compose or to see what you still don’t know about it.

A quick tip from Bevan Steele that shows how to assure that your Composables are measured to the expected or correct height.

Chris Banes explains why any composable you write which emits layout (even a simple Box), should have a modifier parameter.

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Have you noticed on Android 12 that sometimes tapping a notification nothing happens for a couple of minutes, then it suddenly pops up? Nav Singh writes about the reason for this and how to fix it.

Eric Donovan shares an overview of everything new in the third major release of the Apollo GraphQL library.

Kshitij Chauhan shows how to use the Kotlin Serialization library in your Android app and how it differs from other data serialization libraries available out there.

The only certain thing about outages is that they will always happen. Gergely Orosz takes a look at some best practices in handling the issues when they occur.

FunkyMuse explains what assisted injection is and how to implement it properly in Dagger 2.

Mohit Sharma shows how to update database schema post-production release on play store and how to migrate user data from one schema to another.

In this blog post, Anthony Kiniyalocts focuses on the upcoming App Splash Screen changes.

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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.

Simple Stack, a backstack library / navigation framework for simpler navigation and state management (for fragments, views, or whatevers).

News

Google is rolling out the new Data safety section, where developers will have a transparent way to show users if and how they collect, share, and protect user data, before users install an app.

Create your own Team Jetpack superhero, with a custom look and feel, and add your own mix of Android coding power boosts to unlock magical superpowers.

Starting on January 1, 2022, Google's decreasing the service fee for all subscriptions on Google Play from 30% to 15%.

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Google’s second Smart Home Developer Summit is coming to you with three global broadcasts starting on October 21. Please make sure to check out this website to catch content in your timezone!

Videos & Podcasts

In this video, Kate Petrova will tell you about all the important changes that you can expect with KMM Beta: a new memory management approach for Kotlin/Native, improved apple Integration tooling, hierarchical project structure enabled by default, and many more.

TJ Dahunsi discusses using a database as the single source of truth while paging through ordered sets of data.

In this episode listen to Nat Pryce and Duncan McGregor talk about the new Java to Kotlin A Refactoring Guidebook, and their experience of helping companies and independent developers to migrate to Kotlin.

The new Data safety section in Google Play gives developers a transparent way to show users if and how they collect, share, and protect user data, before users install an app.

Listen to Sebastian Kaspari talk about Firefox for Android: Walk through what it takes to write a mobile browser, and discover some of the open-source projects in the Mozilla ecosystem.

In this episode, Bart Wronski takes Tor, Romain, and Chet through the camera pipeline that powers the Pixel phones. They talk about how cameras capture images, and how the algorithms responsible for Pixel’s beautiful images work.

The Kotlin event of the year – big announcements and future Kotlin plans!