Articles & Tutorials

Google announced a new Store Listing Certificate on Google Play Academy, designed to improve store listing, or to build in-demand mobile marketing skills.

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Rafa Garcia shows how KMM provides a relatively straightforward solution to writing app architecture once, while leaving the UI work to be built natively,

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Christopher Elias shows you how to build your own chart (this time, a linear one). No extra libraries need it, only Jetpack Compose UI and a small amount of math

Mark Murphy examined the new 12L Developer Preview and writes about a couple of interesting changes.

In this blog post, Nikit Bhandari explores the ScalingLazyColumn composable. It makes adding scaling and alpha animations in a scrollable container really easy.

Yasin Kaçmaz writes about setting up a report to keep track of newer dependencies in your project with a Gradle plugin.

Husayn Hakeem shows how to use the Data Binding Library to bind UI elements in your XML layouts to data sources in your app using LiveData and StateFlow.

In this end-to-end tutorial, Wei Wei shows how to use TensorFlow Lite to build a game agent to play against a human user in a small board game app.

Material Design Advocacy Lead Yasmine Evjen introduces the Material Theme Builder used to visualize dynamic color, build a custom theme, and export to code.

Material Developer Advocate James Williams writes about how to migrate to the newest updates in the Material Design libraries.

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Jobs

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Libraries & Code

An OkHttp interceptor which logs HTTP request and response data and allows output customization.

News

Compose Multiplatform, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached Beta. This brings Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web another step closer to their stable release later this year

Here's a list of all the newly announced features that Google has released to help build scalable automated testing.

Google has launched the first alpha of Jetpack Media3, a collection of support libraries for media playback, including ExoPlayer.

Google announced several changes to Google Play during Android Dev Summit 2021.

At Android Dev Summit, Google announced a feature drop for Android 12 that is purpose-built for large screens, called 12L, along with new APIs, tools, and guidance to make it easier to build for large screens.

An overview of everything that was announced during Android Dev Summit 2021.

Videos & Podcasts

Find out what’s new in Android Development, including updates for Jetpack Compose, Android 12, privacy, and more from Android Dev Summit ’21.

In this talk Jeffrey van Gogh and Ting-Yuan Huang describe why they built KSP and with which design principles. They also show how to use processors written in KSP, how to write your own processors and describe the roadmap for KSP moving forward.

In this talk Hadi Hariri shares some of the new things that come in Ktor 2.0, currently in beta.

This video tutorial by Bhavna Thacker covers migration from traditional findViewById and Kotlin Synthetics (Deprecated) to View Binding

Events

Bringing The Dev Community Together! Mark your calendars! You're invited to DevFest North America 2021 on November 19 and 20th, 2021!