Issue #652

December 8th, 2024
Articles & Tutorials
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Saket Narayan shares some suggestions to find your fast feedback loops.
Anil Kumar Beesetti explores how to implement a live camera view with OCR in Jetpack Compose.
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Anitaa Murthy worked on a simple Notes app recently to get to understand MVI architecture a bit more and shares the approach.
Oliver Vicente introduces a useful tool for screenshot testing in Jetpack Compose.
Mustafa Khaled shows how implementing a drag-and-drop feature is now easier in Compose.
Google shares some important reminders and updates on how we empower developers to build high-quality, engaging, and age-appropriate apps across the Android ecosystem.
Shahbaz Youssefi looks at why the latest Vulkan Host Image Copy is a game changer for Android.
Stojan Anastasov explores why using function properties in data classes is problematic, particularly for maintaining equality.
Alex Zhukovich explores how to support platform-specific icons in Compose Multiplatform project.
In this second part, Sagar Viradiya explores how the Compose Animation system was built on top of Animation API.
Marcin Moskała shows how to use BlockHound to track blocking calls in Kotlin Coroutines non-blocking dispatchers.
sinasamaki shows how to build a playful text field hint animation.
Eevis Panula share some examples of how to write tests for several different styles of navigation.
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Libraries & Code
Passage is a Kotlin Multiplatform library designed to simplify authentication flows across Android and iOS platforms.
News
PaliGemma 2 builds upon the performant Gemma 2 models, adding the power of vision and making it easier than ever to fine-tune for exceptional performance
Google shares how they're enhancing the Play Integrity API for everyone.
Beginning in Android 16, the default User-Agent string in Android WebView will be similarly reduced.
Kevin Galligan announces the 1.1.0 release, a significant internal refactoring to support ongoing improvements and maintainability.
Videos & Podcasts
Marton Braun examines the use of UUIDs in Kotlin Multiplatform.
Sebastian Sellmair explains the first attempt of implementing Hot Reload for Compose Applications: ClassLoaders.
Philipp Lackner shows how you can implement a 4-digit one-time password input text field with Jetpack Compose.
Learn how to manager runtime permissions with Compose Multiplatform.
Dave Leeds looks at the kotlinx.collections.immutable library in this clip from a livestream.
All the presentations from Google's Playtime EMEA 2024
Code with the Italians for an explosive episode as we sit down with Márton Braun, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, to explore Firework, a groundbreaking tool that brings hot reload capabilities to Compose