Issue #668

March 30th, 2025
Articles & Tutorials
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Zsolt Bertalan updates his fetcher functions for Android data retrieval, introducing safeCall functions to handle network requests and exceptions more effectively.
Thomas Künneth discusses strategies for managing file storage in Compose Multiplatform applications, focusing on platform-specific implementations for retrieving appropriate directories
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Anil Kumar Beesetti explains how to set up a cross-platform translation system using Weblate, with scripts to automate syncing translations for Android and iOS apps.
TJ Dahunsi explores the animateBounds feature in Jetpack Compose 1.8, demonstrating its ability to animate both size and position changes of composables.
Oliver Vicente demonstrates automating navigation testing in Jetpack Compose by first implementing traditional navigation, developing corresponding tests, and then migrating to type-safe navigation introduced in Navigation Component 2.8.0.
Abhiraj Khare demonstrates integrating GraphQL into a Compose Multiplatform project using Apollo GraphQL’s open API.
Ash Nohe explains how to make WebViews compatible with Android 16’s enforced edge-to-edge rendering by handling insets appropriately.
Google announces Media3 1.6.0, introducing Compose UI support, smoother playback with decoder pre-warming, and improved media extraction features.
Thomas Künneth demonstrates how to implement a function in Compose Multiplatform that opens a URL in the default web browser across Android, iOS, and desktop platforms.
Ignacio Carrión explores key state management patterns in Jetpack Compose, highlighting single source of truth, immutable state, event-based updates, and testable architectures for building robust apps.
News
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Google announces enhanced tools and policies to bolster app security and developer support on Google Play.
Videos & Podcasts
Dave Leeds examines the Observer design pattern allows one or more objects to get notified whenever a subject's state changes.
Philipp Lackner examines the most common anti-patterns in Android codebases and how you can refactor your codebase to follow proper architectural standards again with a clear step-by-step plan.
Enhance user privacy, app stability, and SDK integrity with a new Android 14 environment that allows third-party SDKs to run in isolation from the app process, providing stronger safeguards for user data, and many more benefits.
Jov Mit's live-coding session for test-driving network calls and responses.
Code with the Italians to explore validating messy RSS with domain modeling, a sprinkle of logic, and JetBrains' Junie. Grab popcorn. It gets wild.