Articles & Tutorials

Mohit Sarveiya discusses the similarities and differences between Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.

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Ian Bird shares a quick overview of Android's MediaCodec API: what they are, how to find out about device support and some general usage tips when integrating within your application.

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With the introduction of SharedFlow and StateFlow, many developers are migrating from LiveData for a more consistent API across all layers, but Hicham Boushaba shows that the migration is complicated when the view's lifecycle enters into the equation.

Gabriel Peal shares thoughts on his approach to modeling screens as state in Android.

In this blog post, Nikit Bhandari shows how to implement navigation in Wear OS

Fábio Carballo writes about a recent challenge to add support to screenshot testing while making it easy to scale for several different themes.

Vandolf Estrellado writes about the open-source Contacts API that he's built, along with the mistakes made and lessons learned from writing "open source" code, privately, for three years.

TJ shows how your ViewModel can use the Room library to avoid frequent network calls by caching your data.

John O'Reilly thought it would be interesting to compare SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose approaches to building app widgets and to do so in a project where both widgets consume the same Kotlin Mutliplatform shared code

Dan Lew recently converted from using Gson to Moshi for handling JSON and it was a bit tricky, so he's documented the process.

This is a high-level overview of what Tony Robalik and the team at Square did to improve their Gradle builds with more than 3500 modules.

In this post, Bevan Steele writes about the biggest differences between XML layout attributes and Compose modifiers.

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Libraries & Code

An animated Android UI component that validates passwords

Android Contacts API Library written in Kotlin with Java interoperability. No more ContentProviders and cursors. Say goodbye to ContactsContract. Build your own contacts app!

This plugin helps to keep the versions in a Gradle version catalog toml file up to date. The version updates are determined by the versions plugin

News

If you’ve visited the Firebase console’s Analytics section recently, you might have noticed something new… an updated Analytics dashboard, a new Realtime view and a few other UI enhancements.

Videos & Podcasts

Playlist of Android Worldwide presentations for October, including topics around WorkManager, Flow, Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform and code minification.

Windows 11 releases are out and Microsoft is offering Windows 10 users to upgrade. In this video, you will learn if by migrating to Windows 11 you get a faster build for your Android app.

TJ Dahunsi goes over operations that can be performed with Paging with transformations like inserting separators, when to create a new pager and customization options for consuming PagingData.

Watch how Android experts go through the Basics of Jetpack Compose and answer audience questions live.

JetBrains presentation on the new K2 Kotlin compiler, which is on its way to Preview!

Rahul Pandey shares some tactical tips for how to get oriented in a new codebase.

A quick 100 second introduction to everything that Kotlin has to offer.