RenderNode for Bigger, Better Blurs

Chet Haase shows how to use RenderNode to take advantage of the system blur for a better (and faster!) effect and to simplify the AGSL shader logic to simply provide the frosted-glass effect.

Network Calls in Lint: Best Practices

Android Lint has an API to make network calls, and Zac Sweers covers best practices of when and where to use it.

Camposer: Jetpack Compose camera library for Android

Lucas Yuji Yoshimine introduces Camposer, a camera library only using Jetpack Compose.

Unfold your UI

This is Thomas Künneth's first part in a series of articles called Understanding foldable devices.

Android Developers Blog: Per-App Language Preferences - Part 1

Starting with Android 13, Per-App Language Preferences are available to users. This article gives an overview of how to add support to your app.

Making Jellyfish move in Compose

Rebecca Franks describes how she went about animating a jellyfish vector image in Jetpack Compose and applying AGSL RenderEffects.

Senior Android Developer (Berlin, hybrid)

The Berliner Philharmoniker is looking for a Senior Android Developer. The Digital Concert Hall (digitalconcerthall.com) is the leading international video streaming platform for classical music concerts, documentaries and interviews. You'd be responsible for our highly rated Android App.

Camposer

A camera library totally in Jetpack Compose which supports taking photos, recording videos, flash modes, zoom ratio, and among others!

Jellyfish Animation in Jetpack Compose

Jellyfish Animation in Jetpack Compose using ImageVector and RenderEffect.

FluidBg.kt

A nice, animated gradient effect in Jetpack Compose

paparazzi-plugin

IntelliJ iDEA / Android Studio plugin for Android projects using the Paparazzi library

android-blex

A wrapper for the Bluetooth GATT APIs on Android.

MastodonCompose

Read this if you're interested in contributing to a group effort to build a free and open Mastodon client.

We Are Looking For EAP Champions!

JetBrains is starting the EAP Champions program and invite you to join!. EAP Champions are a group of developers who work on large-scale, production-grade projects.

Introducing Camera Viewfinder

CameraViewfinder is a new artifact from the Jetpack library that allows you to quickly implement camera previews with minimal effort.

Multiplatform Synchronization with Kotlin + Realm and @MongoDB

Listen to Sudarshan Muralidhar and Christian Melchior from @MongoDB + Realm talk about their new multiplatform product that is created to ensure the consistency and consolidation of data across devices and your backend.

Google Play Games for PC

In this episode of the Android Game Dev Show, Patrick discusses the brand new form factor for Android Games

How to Land a Job (if you got laid off or if you’re just starting out)

In this episode, Donn talks about the tips and tricks he’s used over the last 20 years of consulting, freelancing and working full time to find jobs and new opporftunities.

Weird and Ambitious Multiplatform Things

Listen to Jake Wharton and Jessie Wilson from Cash App talk about "weird and ambitious multiplatform things." They reveal their experience of using Kotlin Multiplatform for one of the most used fintech apps in the world.

Create custom layouts with Jetpack Compose

In this episode, Ivan Morgillo and Sebastiano Poggi learn how to create spectacular custom layouts with Simona Stojanovic, Android Developer Relations Engineer at Google.

For Loop vs ForEach in Kotlin (Code and Performance Comparison)!

Charfaoui Younes compares both types of for loops in kotlin and a simple performance comparison. He also shows how you can achieve the `break` and `continue` in the forEach!