Joe Birch discusses the new experimental PullToRefreshBox composable in Jetpack Compose, highlighting its improved discoverability, readability, and reduced boilerplate compared to the previous pullRefresh modifier approach.
Zach Klippenstein introduces a technique to add dynamic content padding to Jetpack Compose’s BasicTextField, enhancing user experience by adjusting padding based on scroll position.
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Jaewoong Eum advises caution when using Kotlin’s runBlocking in Android development, explaining that it can block the main thread and lead to Application Not Responding (ANR) errors, thereby degrading user experience.
Igor Escodro presents a method to integrate a shimmer effect into existing Jetpack Compose codebases with minimal modifications, utilizing a custom Modifier.
Viktor Mykhailiv provides a guide on creating a custom sleep timeline graph in Jetpack Compose, illustrating how to represent various sleep stages such as awake, REM, light, and deep sleep using the Canvas composable and DrawScope API.
Android 16 is removing the ability for apps to restrict orientation and resizability at the platform level, and shifting to a consistent model of adaptive apps that seamlessly adjust to different screen sizes and orientations.
The Vertex AI in Firebase SDK lets you access Google’s Gemini Cloud models (like Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Pro) and add GenAI capabilities to your Android app.
The Android team's short blog series where they pull back the curtain and introduce you to the passionate people who build your favorite Android development tools.
Ignacio Carrión explores Kotlin’s Immutable Collections library, highlighting its benefits for thread safety, performance, and efficient state management in Jetpack Compose.
Flow operators that enable you to create restartable, pausable, or one-shot StateFlow instances, allowing you to customize and control additional behaviors for StateFlow based on your specific use case.
Google is introducing a new way to recognize VPN apps that go above and beyond to protect their users: a "Verified" badge for consumer-facing VPN apps.
Learn what Credential Manager and Firebase Authentication are, and how you can combine them to allow users to sign into your Android apps with their Google Accounts with just one tap.
Dive deeper into the different authentication flows that you can have in your Android app when signing up or signing in your users with Sign in with Google.
Philipp Lackner compares all common approaches to dependency injection on Android, highlight advantages and disadvantages and finally give you my recommendation to DI.
Behavior tests can use DeviceConfigurationOverride, a new testing API to simulate different device configurations to avoid needing multiple emulators to run a full test suite.
