Issue #639

September 8th, 2024
Articles & Tutorials
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Kaushik Gopal continues the series, showing how to control virtual time in concurrent logic.
Amit Shekhar writes about the difference between Parcelable and Serializable and shows how they work internally.
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Jaewoong Eum explores how to selectively disable auto-completion suggestions in Android Studio
Serhii Hryshyn implements automating navigation descriptions in the Compose Navigation library using KSP.
Harman Khera explores strategies to resolve dependency conflicts in Gradle.
Karol Wrótniak shows how to create an AI app using Kotlin Multiplatform and a local AI model, with a technical focus specifically for developers.
Sahil Thakar shows how to build a custom speedometer using the canvas approach.
Don Turner covers the stable API and points out changes since the first alpha release of Jetpack Navigation 2.8.0.
In this new series of blog posts, Joe Birch shares how we can use the different parts of the compose mapping package.
Zsolt Bertalan wraps up his series on how architecture-related decisions can have serious implications.
Donovan LaDuke shares a simple way to enforce spacing design standards when implementing UI with Jetpack Compose.
This series of articles by Thomas Künneth is about implementing a small digital assistant on Android that uses Gemini 1.5 Pro.
Mike Yerou shows a simple to implement shimmer animation in Jetpack Compose without adding another dependency to our project.
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News
LiteRT is the new name for TensorFlow Lite (TFLite).
Google has released Android 15 and is making the source code available at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
The Android 15 "Spotlight Week" will provide resources — blog posts, videos, sample code, and more — all designed to help you prepare your apps and take advantage of the latest features.
Videos & Podcasts
Android 15 AOSP dropped earlier today, and Google's kicking off a new series called "Spotlight Weeks"!
Alireza Tizfahmfard considers what a compiler is, explains core concepts, introduces Meta-Programming, and shows use-cases of the compiler.
Dave Leeds looks at code that could benefit from the State Pattern
Charfaoui Younes teaches about a common pitfall in Compose when using derivedStateOf.
Philipp Lackner covers the new Android Studio Ladybug as well as some cool interop changes for Compose and Fragments.
Join Dan and Ash as they dive into building for the future of Android!
Welcome to the August 2024 edition of Firebase Release Notes. In this video, Marina gives the top 6 updates from Firebase for August!
All the presentations from Droidcon Berline 2024