The TL;DR of last weeks Android developer news by Michael Scamell

Version 28 of the Android support library was recently announced — within the current alpha version there is a collection of exciting new…

Migrate your complex database to Room with manageable PRs.

Today, thousands of apps for Android Auto are available through the Google Play Store for millions of drivers in over 30 countries around the world. And because the Google Assistant is available on Android Auto, developers are able to build voice-powered…

Announced at I/O 2017, Architecture Components are one part of Jetpack. These components include Room, LiveData, ViewModel, Paging, WorkManager and Navigatio...

This year, in the annual Google I/O dev conference, Google announced Navigation for the Android Architecture Components.

The easiest HTTP networking library for Kotlin/Android - kittinunf/fuel

Kotlin bindings for JSON manipulation via Gson. Contribute to SalomonBrys/Kotson development by creating an account on GitHub.

Kotpref - Android SharedPreferences delegation library for Kotlin - chibatching/Kotpref

Came from Java 7 into Kotlin, we are so happy that we could easily have Collection operators on List and chain them together. But little…

Yesterday Google announced android-ktx, which is a set of Kotlin extensions for Android app development. It looks like the aim of the…

An addendum to the official documentation

Room to LiveData to ViewModel to View. — How reactive ☢ are you?

In I/O ’18, Google released Android Jetpack. It’s a set of libraries, tools and architectural guidance to help make it quick and easy to…

In this I/O ’18, Google released WorkManager APIs to schedule the work. In the last article, we discussed about how work manager APIs work…

The Navigation Architecture Component provides a framework for building in-app navigation. This session will discuss how to use the Navigation Editor in Android Studio, XML or the Java API to define your navigation graph, and how that simplifies navigating…