We released a new project on Github called Android Architecture Starter Templates. The goal of these templates is to get you started quickly when doing an experiment or starting a brand-new app from scratch. …

In this article you’ll learn how to use the waitUntil test API in Compose to wait for certain conditions to be met. This is a good alternative to using Idling Resources in some situations. [2023 update] Tldr: use the new waitUntil APIs to synchronize in Compose tests (v1.4.0+). What is synchronization? One way…

LiveData was something we needed back in 2017. The observer pattern made our lives easier, but options such as RxJava were too complex for beginners at the time. The Architecture Components team created LiveData: a very opinionated observable data holder class, designed for Android. It was kept simple to make…

Hey Michael, I'm temporarily routing people from the SingleLiveEvent post to this one! Have you considered having a buffered channel for snackbars and a conflated one for navigation events?

Hilt is the new library built on top of Dagger that simplifies Dependency Injection (DI) in Android apps. But, how much does it simplify it? We migrated the Google I/O app (iosched) to find out, which already used Dagger with dagger.android. In this article I’ll go through our experience migrating…

This article is part III of a summary of the talk I gave with Yigit Boyar at the Android Dev Summit 2019. Part I: Reactive UIs Part II: Launching coroutines with Architecture Components Part III: LiveData and Coroutines patterns (this post) ViewModel patterns Let’s look…

This article is part II of a summary of the talk I gave with Yigit Boyar at the Android Dev Summit 2019. Part I: Reactive UIs Part II: Launching coroutines with Architecture Components (this post) Part III: LiveData and Coroutines patterns Jetpack’s Architecture…

This article is a summary of the talk I gave with Yigit Boyar at the Android Dev Summit 2019. Part I: Reactive UIs (this post) Part II: Launching coroutines with Architecture Components Part III: LiveData and Coroutines patterns Part I: Reactive UIs Since the early days of…

Next time you’re scratching your head wondering why an innocent looking unit test with LiveDatas is failing, or staring at an empty screen that should show… something, you should remember that a LiveData that is not observed won’t emit updates. …