This blog series by Py will be focused on stability and performance monitoring of Android apps in production.
Here are some tips for optimizing the speed of your Gradle builds.
In this article, Tony Robalik takes a look at the Dependency Analysis Gradle Plugin. This plugin is uniquely designed to solve several build problems in the Android & JVM build ecosystems such as telling you which (if any) of your dependencies are unused and can be removed.
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Ataul Munim shows how to write a custom lint check that helps prevent hardcoding colors.
Sam Edwards walks you through the reasons why to use Kotlin Actors to achieve concurrency while leveraging Coroutines to process reactive events in an unknown order.
Prashant Barahi shows how to use Continuous Integration for Android to be sure you have fully-verified and battle-tested code on the master branch
Danny Preussler shows how to avoid implicit connections and learn how extension functions can help you writing good APIs.
Vasiliy Zukanov considers Repository, Manager, and UseCase patterns when implementing a well-architected application.
This blog post by Romin Irani shows you step by step how to start designing an Agent in Dialogflow that can support two languages
Mark Allison considers how to handle delaying looping animations when using the Lottie library.
Android 11 introduces IORap, a new feature that greatly improves application startup times. This article describes how it works, and a minor change to help your app take advantage.
This blog post provides information on Kotlin metadata and on R8’s support for Kotlin metadata rewriting.
With Profile-guided optimization (PGO), runtime profiles from a program’s executions are used by the compiler to make optimal choices about inlining and code layout. Here's how to make use of them in Native Android apps.
Murat Yener explains desugaring, and how it makes newer Java APIs (java.time, java.util.stream, etc) available on Android.
This is part 1 of an end-to-end tutorial by Margaret Maynard-Reid that demonstrates how to convert a TF 1.x model to TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) and then deploy it to an Android app for transforming a selfie image to a plausible anime.
Pixelopolis is an interactive installation that showcases self-driving miniature cars powered by TensorFlow Lite
Jose Alcérreca shares this series of posts implementing reactive UIs using LiveData and Kotlin Coroutines. Part I: Reactive UIs (this post), Part II: Launching coroutines with Architecture Components and Part III: LiveData and Coroutines patterns
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A lightweight bottom navigation view, fully customizable with an indicator and animations.
Mirror the touch/key/button events of one device onto one or more other devices in real-time
Gradle plugin for Java, Kotlin, and Android projects. Provides advice for managing dependencies and other applied plugins
Announcing a guide to using the MockK testing library.
Google announced the launch of "Android Basics in Kotlin", a new online course for people without programming experience to learn how to build Android apps.
In this video, Sumit Chandel and Kevin Lam walk you through Google Analytics and show you how to get the most out of its advanced features and stay connected to all the metrics that matter.
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Mads Ager from the Android Studio compilers team. They cover a number of subjects, from r8 and d8 optimizations and resource shrinking to work on the Kotlin compiler front- and back-end, as well as the new Kotlin symbol processor.
Manuel Vicente Vivo takes a good look at the current state of coroutines support in Android libraries and tools, explore some interesting and not-so-obvious edge cases