Articles & Tutorials

Victor Brandalise takes a closer look into how the Firebase Crashlytics library works.

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Sam Edwards introduces Saydle, a Wrapper for the Gradle Wrapper (gradlew) that notifies you via the Mac OSX say command whether a task failed or succeeded.

In this article, Murat Yener teaches about Gradle tasks, providers, properties, and using task inputs and outputs. You’ll also take your plugin a step further and learn how to get access to various build artifacts using the new Artifact API

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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.

Leland Takamine announces "dadb", a Kotlin/Java library to connect directly to an Android device without an adb binary or an ADB server

In this article, Igor Escodro takes a look at some key concepts in Material You and how to learn more about this new design.

Siggi Gunnarsson and his team recently started using Kotlin Multiplatform to speed up development and reduce bugs. Read on for their experience with adopting this technology and our progress so far.

Arildo Borges Jr shares some practical examples of the power of Jetpack Compose on Wear OS.

In the first part of this blog series, Vishu Gupta teaches about picking the right tools for App Performance Improvement.

Stephen Vinouze leverages the power of custom drawing to build a segmented progress bar in Android.

Saket Narayan shares a way in which Compose UI improves upon building UIs.

This is a step-by-step article with hands-on tips to help you learn how to test Android Jetpack Compose Layout.

Rafael Costa shares his findings from researching the best error handling solution for a new project.

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Libraries & Code

A Kotlin/Java library to connect directly to an Android device without an adb binary or an ADB server

Android Developer Roadmap 2022 suggests learning paths to understanding Android development.

Saydle is a Wrapper for the Gradle Wrapper that notifies you via the OSX say command whether a task failed or succeeded.

News

PyTorch recently introduced PyTorchLive, an easy-to-use library of tools for creating on-device ML demos on Android and iOS. With Live, you can build a working mobile app ML demo in minutes

JetBrains Compose Multiplatform, a declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached version 1.0, which means it is ready for production use!

For developers who want more fine-tuned control of custom watch faces, Google has recently launched the Jetpack Watch Face library written from the ground up in Kotlin.

Videos & Podcasts

All the session videos from Chicago Roboto 2021

In this episode, Chet and Romain talked with Nicole McWilliams and Petr Čermák from the London engineering office about their work on App Widgets and Digital Wellbeing.

Retrofit is the most popular Android networking library today. This is a recording of Rahul Pandey's talk at Chicago Roboto diving into the internals of Retrofit

In this video, you will learn how to migrate your Android app build configuration from Groovy to Kotlin Script

A case study on how Cash App and Gradle have been working together to optimize Cash App builds, find bottlenecks, and improve developer productivity. John Rodriguez from Square and Rooz Mohazzabi from Gradle will share wins and findings from their journey.