Articles & Tutorials

Rodrigo Dominguez shares an example of how MotionLayout enabled a wonderful animated experience for users when scanning NFC payments.

Elyes Manai shares the steps to earn the Google Professional ML Engineer Certificate!

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Roberto Orgiu shows how to build a desktop weather app with Compose for Desktop! You’ll get user input, fetch network data and display it all with the Compose UI toolkit.

Zach Klippenstein looks at why you shouldn't put mutable collections inside mutable state holders.

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In this article, Begüm Yazıcı explains what Unit tests are, why we should write them, and how to write them.

Leon Chiver encountered random crashes on starting a foreground service. Here's how he tracked down the issue and fixed it.

Cédric writes about dependencyCheck, a tool to verify third-party libraries don’t have security holes.

Hannes Dorfmann's musings about perfectionism vs striving for excellence.

In Jetpack Compose, we have two types of bottom sheets, the BottomSheetScaffold and the ModalBottomSheetLayout. John Codeos shows examples of how to use both.

Thomas Künneth shows how to tune your application to look great on devices with a hinge obscuring some of the screen content.

Chris Banes shares this workaround for nested scrolling view interop in JetpackCompose. It allows you to use nested scrolling layouts in a ComposeView, so that they dispatch the correct calls to view parents (AppBarLayout, etc).

You might have heard of MVC, then we have MVP, MVVM, MVI etc… if you add any letter after MV it might exist already. FunkyMuse ponders some misconceptions around these patterns.

Zarah Dominguez expands on her last article with this quick tip. She shows how to make it easier to switch branches among the last several used.

In this article, Murat Yener shows how to extend your build by writing your own plugin.

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Libraries & Code

Mocking for Kotlin/Native and Kotlin Multiplatform using the Kotlin Symbol Processing API (KSP)

SwiftPoet is a Kotlin and Java API for generating .swift source files. Source file generation can be useful when doing things such as annotation processing or interacting with metadata files.

News

JetBrains announced that Dokka has reached Beta. They are close to making it Stable, but they need your feedback about the major new feature delivered in Beta – the new HTML output format.

The KMM Plugin for Android Studio 0.3.0 was recently released! It comes with lots of new features and improvements that simplify the creation of new KMM projects and improve the process of developing iOS applications based on Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile.

Authors of Kotlin Multiplatform libraries with Android targets please be aware that JetBrains recently discovered a couple of issues affecting the compatibility of libraries published in setups that use the most recent versions of Kotlin, Gradle, and the Android Gradle plugin

Videos & Podcasts

A virtual panel discussion with expert Android engineers Zarah Dominguez, Kaushik Gopal, Chet Haase, and Emily Kager

In this video you will learn the 20% of Git commands that will give you 80%+ of the benefit. This course starts from the ground up. No prior git experience is necessary. I'll show you how to create a repository, add commits, review the repository, branch, merge, push to remotes on GitHub and much much more.

JetBrains has updated the Kotlin public roadmap to reflect plans for Kotlin 1.7 and beyond! In this video, Egor Tolstoy talks about the seven exciting highlights from this update!

On this episode of Gradle and Build APIs for MAD Skills, you will learn how to extend your build by writing your own plugin.

In this video, Frank van Puffelen discusses updates from the Firebase Summit 2021, run unified messaging campaigns with FCM and FIAM, automated pre-releasing testing with the App Distribution REST API, and more!

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about some of the books that they’re reading and thoughts and recommendations on each.

In this episode, Gabor Varadi shares his experiences in using Jetpack Compose in real-world Android applications and explains problems we have to watch out for. He also shares his opinions on MVVM vs MVI architecture, reactive programming with Flow vs RxJava, and much more.