When using WorkManager, be wary about the implications of using unique work with the APPEND policy. Unique work with APPEND is implemented (under the hood) via a chain of work. For example, if you request unique work two times in a row, it's represented…

Let’s look at how new Kotlin cross-platform/multi-format reflectionless serialization works and why it’s better than other libraries!

The problem Build time has always been a big issue for Android developers. In order […]

An Android Love Affair

Replace Dalvik, ART performs the translation of the app’s bytecode into native instructions that later execute by device runtime…

Hands-on guide

Tutorial on how to create Telegram-like theme change animation (with simple solution for custom theme support for views)

Kotlin Census 2019.

On 28th March 2011 I published the first ever blog post to Styling Android. Almost 9 years later there are now, as this is published, some 458 published articles. When I first started out, I did not have a clue what I was doing, and some might say I still…

Suppose you've got a critical section
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_section] of code, meaning only one
process should execute it at a time.

In the Java world, one solution is to slap synchronized on the method and call
it a day. In Kotlin, we use…

Posted by Mitchell Wills, Android Build Software Engineer AOSP has been around for a while, but flashing builds onto a development de...

Android app development books

Kotlin and Gradle source sets in action

KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.