Issue #654

December 22nd, 2024
Articles & Tutorials
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Elyes Mansour shows how to use immutable lists to describe collections in our state objects to protect them against accidental mutations.
Romain Guy looks at another seemingly small or irrelevant change that can have a large impact on performance.
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Tom Sabel shows how to dynamically enable debug-friendly settings using the idea.active property, ensuring you can inspect coroutine variables without impacting production performance.
Marcin Moskała decided to make some benchmarks to see how reflection really performs.
Get ready to level up your Android camera apps! CameraX 1.4.0 just dropped with a load of awesome new features and improvements.
When users on Android take a photo in low light environments, they’ll see a moon icon that allows them to activate Night Mode for better image quality. Learn how this is implemented.
Segun Famisa shows how to selectively perform checks on specific tests and perform those checks only under certain conditions.
Sergio Sastre Florez shows how Compose Previews can actually be used with XML-based Views.
Anil Kumar Beesetti explores how to set up and use the expect/actual pattern and Koin to create a SystemService that handles interactions seamlessly across platforms.
Sebastian Sellmair takes a close look at the technology behind 'Compose Hot Reload'.
Sandeep Kella wraps up the series discussing best practices for writing tests that are maintainable, readable, and efficient when using MockK.
Michal Ankiersztajn teaches what a companion object is, how it behaves and what you can use it for in Kotlin!
One of the biggest benefits of KMP is how seamless it is to provide platform specific functionality for your shared code. Adam McNeilly does that with Android XR.
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Libraries & Code
A tool designed to analyze the download size of Android applications. Provides detailed insights into app binary composition through a Gradle plugin and CLI tool to help developers optimize app size and improve user acquisition.
A new service designed to make finding Kotlin Multiplatform libraries faster and easier.
A minimalistic player library for Kotlin Multiplatform. It targets Android, jvm and iOS, allowing consumers to play audio files
News
The second developer preview of Android 16 is now available to test with your apps
Ekaterina Petrova introduces klibs.io – JetBrains' new service designed to make finding Kotlin Multiplatform libraries faster and easier.
Tools
Visualize the FIR (Frontend Intermediate Representation) and CFG (Control Flow Graph) from a Kotlin file
Videos & Podcasts
Kotlin’s string interpolation has been a much-liked feature from the beginning, and in this video, learn about how JetBrains is adding more flexibility to it with multi-dollar string interpolation.
Dave Leeds checks in on the latest news from the Kotlin and Android worlds and explore some rad new features in Kotlin 2.1 like pattern guards and (a very early peek at) direct Swift export.
Philipp Lackner teaches how you can draw custom paths in a Jetpack Compose canvas.
Google announced Android XR at XR Unlocked. Get a firsthand look at the new platform for headsets and glasses.
Android XR builds on the Android tradition of supporting industry standards and tools familiar to XR developers.
Learn how to build new XR differentiated apps and how to adapt existing Android apps for Android XR devices.
Learn how to design intuitive and engaging apps for Android XR