Issue #400

Articles & Tutorials

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In this post, Vasiliy Zukanov talks about navigation between screens in Android applications, architecture, and Navigation Architecture Component.

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This is the first in a series of articles where Chris Banes and Nick Butcher set out to demystify Android styling so that you can make stylish apps without pulling your hair out.

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Nothing is a special type in Kotlin often used for errors. Zac Sweers ponders if it's all that useful... (Hint: it is!)

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Nelson Osacky saw that Dagger was taking a large portion of his build times. He saved up to 50 percent of local build times with little maintenance cost by swapping regular Dagger for Dagger Reflect.

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Markus Hintersteiner wrote an app that combines both a notepad and a calculator into a single experience. This post summarizes his learnings about several small challenges with the EditText control.

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Vipul Asri describes the concept of dynamic, server-driven UI for native mobile development.

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One of Tushar Saha's most loved features in Kotlin is the method reference. Here he describes how it works.

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Did you know you can use Kotlin to build applications for the web, iOS, Mac, Linux, Android, and more? Nate Ebel shows how Kotlin Multiplatform makes this possible.

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Tam H. Doan shows how you can create utils class by putting methods inside an object, or use package-level functions.

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could represent a single type that can come in different forms, each able to be constant or carry their own data? Andrew Lord shows how Kotlin sealed classes fill this need.

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Vasya Drobushkov provides a quick comparison between backpressure solutions in RxJava and Kotlin Flow.

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Ahmed Rizwan shares a quick recipe on how to save ViewModel state across Android process death.

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In this article Joe Birch takes a look at the Top App Bar component which allows us to add a Toolbar/AppBar to a screen.

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Rebecca Franks lists a few tools that have made her day-to-day development easier.

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View Binding was introduced in 2019 and is really nice, though Mark Allison discovered a small gotcha. He shares three different simple approaches to dealing with it.

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Libraries & Code

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KaMP Kit is a collection of code and tools designed to get your mobile team started quickly with Kotlin Multiplatform

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