Issue #565

April 9th, 2023
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Articles & Tutorials
sinasamaki shows how to get started using a ViewPager in Jetpack Compose.
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A guest post from Reddit Engineer, Aaron Oertel, on how they’ve leveraged Compose in their Android App.
In this third article updating the Now In Android app, Arnaud Giuliani proposes to use Koin Annotations instead of Koin DSL to configure all the app's components injection.
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In this article, Rebecca Franks looks at creating some fun indicators and transitions between HorizontalPager and VerticalPager pages.
Read an overview about how Clue’s development speed improved 3X after rebuilding the app with Jetpack Compose.
FunkyMuse shows how to add spotless and ktlint to your project.
Adam Bennett writes about why it's important to collect metrics and present every win to stakeholders.
Victor Brandalise is building a language learning app with Compose and writes about the latest changes.
Did you know Google has a Jetpack Compose test lab? It's the place where they cook all-new Jetpack Compose APIs! Alex Styl shares the details of this very useful set of libraries.
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Libraries & Code
Railway-oriented library to easily model and handle success/failure for Kotlin, Android, and Retrofit.
Koin - a pragmatic lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform
News
The 1.1.0-beta01 release of Jetpack WindowManager continues the library’s steady progress toward stable release of version 1.1.0
For apps that enable app account creation, developers will soon need to provide an option to initiate account and data deletion from within the app and online.
The Kotlin 1.8.20 release is out including the new Kotlin K2 compiler updates, JVM incremental compilation enabled by default, and the experimental Kotlin/Wasm target.
Videos & Podcasts
Daniel Atitienei shows how to create a real-time password validator in Jetpack Compose.
Firebase Developer Advocate Peter Friese shows you how to implement a smooth onboarding process for your app using Anonymous Authentication and Account Linking.
Join Ivan Morgillo and Sebastiano Poggi as they dive deep into the world of Android Navigation with Compose with Ian Lake, exploring best practices, and discussing why Fragments might just be a thing of the past.
In this video, Charfaoui Younes shows how to use the Relay plugin in Figma to generate beautiful Compose UIs with ease.
When developing apps and games for Google Play, you're responsible for ensuring that every SDK and API used in your app complies with Google Play policies to help build a safe and high-quality experience for everyone
Using content color schemes is a way to create color schemes for an app that are based on the colors of the content, such as images or videos.
This video will guide you through a high-level overview of what Dependency Injection is and how it can be used in Android application development, plus some tips in the end.
In this video, Anton explains the new features introduced in Kotlin 1.8.20.
KotlinConf 2023 is just around the corner and we can’t wait to see you there! It will be streaming live on YouTube, so you will have full access to the conference, even if you can’t attend in person!
Learn how to create a website with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with the help of a Compose for Web and Kobweb framework