Issue #636

August 18th, 2024
Articles & Tutorials
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Dhananjay Navlani takes you through the idea behind BookMatch, the tech stack, why we Supabase is used for backend operations, and how to perform prompt engineering to deliver accurate results.
Alexey Leontyev considers what is needed to make PreferenceFragmentCompat work with data from DataStore
Joost Klitsie shows how Kotlin Coroutines and Android Lifecycle are a match made in heaven
Dinoy Raj shows how the list formatter localizes a list of items when displayed to a user.
Amit Shekhar teaches about the extension function in Kotlin and shows how it works internally.
Donovan LaDuke shows how use cases can serve an architectural purpose without introducing additional unnecessary bloat.
What is the quickest path to messing with a snippet of Kotlin code? Maia Grotepass shares some options.
Jaewoong Eum explores best practices for using Compose Previews and how to maximize their utilization.
Design
Looking for app icons? Alex Styl has converted the Internet's most popular icon libraries to Jetpack Compose Image Vectors so you will never run out of icons to use in your Compose apps.
Libraries & Code
A unified localization management tool for iOS & Android
CoinWatch is an Android cryptocurrency app providing real-time coin prices, price histories, and market data. The app is built using the latest Android architecture components - resulting in a scalable, modularised and testable app.
BookMatch is a book recommendation app that leverages generative AI to provide personalized book recommendations.
News
Back again for 2024, Google is opening up applications for Google Play’s Indie Games Fund in Latin America - as part of their commitment to helping developers of all sizes grow on Google Play.
JetBrains added over 1,000 new UI icons to the IntelliJ Platform Icons library. These icons are tailored to the new UI and come with Apache 2.0 licensing.
Videos & Podcasts
Sebastian Sellmair explains why the 'Nothing' type in Kotlin is cool whilst also looking into generics, covariance and contravariance.
Learn the basics of Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) and how this powerful tool can simplify code generation and enhance your development workflow.
Soumi Sarkar delves into advanced incident management techniques tailored specifically for Android applications, emphasizing proactive strategies to minimize disruptions and uphold user satisfaction
Philipp Lackner teaches how you can make use of the new READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_MEDIA_VIDEO and READ_MEDIA_AUDIO permissions to get access to the external storage of an Android device. You will learn to list all media files in a list.
Charfaoui Younes discusses why we write bad code as software engineers, the reasons behind it, and then explore how to fix the problem by approaching the code we add to the codebase from a different angle.
Daniel Atitienei discusses what you need to learn to pursue a career in Android Development.
Dive into solid color brushes, different gradient brushes, as well as various options for gradient brushes. Finally diving into how we implemented a subtle gradient animation in Jetsnack.
Unique type of Date/Time Picker - Available in Compose Multiplatform