Articles & Tutorials

Matt McKenna shares a tip on how to fix poor audio quality when using Android emulators.

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In this post, Bill Phillips starts to address the main tool used in Kotlin coroutines to represent asynchronous sequences of data: the Flow.

Bevan Steele shares the steps to authenticate the user using the AndroidX Biometric Library.

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Aidan Low continues this series of articles on how to generate a code coverage report for Android instrumentation tests running on Firebase Test Lab.

Arjuna teaches how to generate a release build of your app, create a Google Play Store listing and finally release your app on the Play Store.

Wrap-up article on the just completed new MAD skills series on Gradle and Android Gradle plugin build APIs.

Paul Lammertsma announces the Jetpack DragAndDrop library as an alpha release to make it easier for you to handle data dropped into your app.

Juan Guillermo Gómez Torres shows you how you can create a password text field and password confirmation with Jetpack Compose.

Gergely Orosz lists 95 book recommendations, perfect as reading or gifts during the end-of-year break for those working in tech.

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News

In response to community demand for up-to-date guidance on app architecture, Google is launching a revamped guide to app architecture. This includes best practices and recommended architecture for building robust, high-quality apps.

Google is making it even easier to build app widgets by releasing the first alpha of Jetpack Glance, a new framework built on top of the Jetpack Compose runtime designed to make it faster and easier to build app widgets for the home screen and other surfaces.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode Hadi and Seb are talking to Margarita Nedzelska from SonarSource about how she and her team built a working static analyzer for Kotlin.

In this episode, Anton solves the Day 1 puzzle from Advent of Code 2021

In this episode, listen to the chat with Yigit Boyar from the Android Toolkit Team about Kotlin multi-platform, while Romain provides light background music on his piano.

Adam McNeilly reviews the new and revamped app architecture guides from the Android dev team.

In this episode Kate Petrova shows 3 tips that will help you work with Strings in Kotlin.