Issue #354

Articles & Tutorials

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Rebecca Franks shows how working with X, Y translations on a Canvas object got a whole lot easier when using Kotlin and the Android KTX Extension functions provided.

Sponsored

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It’s been just over two years since the first release of Lottie iOS and Lottie Android and Brandon Withrow shares info about many new releases and announcements to mark its second anniversary.

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In this second part, Jeroen Mols explores a simple, yet very effective approach to modularizing apps. He covers in depth the different kinds of modules and present the benefits of this approach.

(joebirch.co)

For Android Q, one of the changes we are seeing introduced is the way in which we work with user locations inside of our applications – these changes affect the access of the location in both the foreground and background.

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Manuel Vivo describes how viewModelScope contributes to structured concurrency by adding an extension property to the ViewModel class that automatically cancels its child coroutines when the ViewModel is destroyed

(android.jlelse.eu)

A quick tip from Wajahat Karim to fix AssertionError Exception when updating ConstraintLayout from 1.0.2 to later versions

(quickbirdstudios.com)

The QuickBird team craved to use Kotlin/Native and Kotlin Multiplatform but decided against using it in a production project for now. Here are the reasons why!

(medium.com)

Leo Sei shares some of the new analytics in place to better pinpoint what is really affecting build speed and share more about what we’re doing about it, as well as what you can do today to help prevent your build from slowing down.

Design

Jobs

(Remote, Philadelphia, or NYC)

Betterment is hiring a Lead Engineer for our Android team. Our team's mission is to create the most streamlined and intuitive mobile investing experience possible to allow our customers to make the most of their money.

(Remote within Euro time zone)

Join our team and help to unleash the creativity of millions. We have have a large backlog of exciting features including video editing, filters, blend modes, and collaboration tools. Does this sounds like a fit for you? Then please get in touch, we would love to hear more about you!

(London, (UK) or distributed from similar timezone)

We’re searching for product-aware Android engineers to help us on our mission: to make money work for everyone. Within a small cross functional team, you'll work to shape how more than a million people interact with their finances. Our codebase is 98% Kotlin, modularised, and uses RxJava and Dagger.

News

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Last year, Google launched Android App Bundles and Google Play's Dynamic Delivery to introduce modular development, reduce app size and streamline the release process. Now they've announced some new improvements based on your suggestions.

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With this new course from Google, learn to architect and develop Android apps in the Kotlin programming language using industry-proven tools and libraries.

Videos & Podcasts

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Nate Ebel presents the Gradle dependencies task, with which we can generate a scan of all our project's dependencies. This can be useful if we are looking for dependency conflicts or just trying to see what a project is using

(androidbackstage.blogspot.com)

In this episode, Romain and Tor chat with Frank, who works on emulators, from the Android Studio team.

(fragmentedpodcast.com)

With the release of Android Q we now have the settings panel and all its glory. Donn talks about this in-depth in this episode.

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Android vitals helps you keep on top of your engineering performance metrics so that you can avoid issues that will impact your user experience.

Specials