Android Studio Electric Eel, Architecture, Kotlin Multiplatform, WearOS, CameraX, Stylus, and more. — Welcome to 2023 and a new episode of Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Episode 75 Video and Podcast Now in Android is also offered as a video and podcast. Android Studio Electric Eel is stable ⚡ This release includes updates and new features that cover across design, build…

Android Dev Summit, Modern Android development, Kotlin Multiplatform, Material Design, Now in Android app, and more! — Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Episode 71 Video and Podcast Now in Android is also offered as a video and podcast. What’s new from Android at Android Dev Summit ‘22

Privacy Sandbox, Modularization, Architecture, Performance, Deep links, Android Go edition, Android 13, Jetpack Glance, and more! — Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Episode 68 Video and Podcast Now in Android is also offered as a video and podcast. Privacy Sandbox developer preview 5 🔐 The Privacy Sandbox aims to develop new technologies that improve user privacy and enable effective, personalized advertising experiences…

Collecting flows in a lifecycle-aware manner is the recommended way to collect flows on Android. If you’re building an Android app with Jetpack Compose, use the collectAsStateWithLifecycle API to collect flows in a lifecycle-aware manner from your UI. collectAsStateWithLifecycle allows your app to save app resources when not needed, such…

Android 13 Beta 4, Predictive back gestures, Jetpack Compose, Wear OS, Text gradients, Large screens, System UI, and more! — Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Episode 65 Video and Podcast Now in Android is also offered as a video and podcast. Android 13 Beta 4 We’re just a few weeks away from…

Google I/O 2022, Jetpack, Android Studio, Animations in Compose, UI events, and more! — Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Episode 62 Video and Podcast Now in Android is also offered as a video and podcast. Google I/O recaps ⏱ If you didn’t have time to consume the content of Google I/O ’22 perfectly summarized in the previous…

ViewModel events are actions originated from the ViewModel that the UI should perform. For example, displaying an informative message to the user, or navigating to a different screen when the application state changes. Our guidance on ViewModel events is opinionated in two different ways: Whenever a one-off event originates in…

As part of our effort to modernize the app architecture guidance, we want to experiment with different UI patterns to see what works best, find similarities and differences between the alternatives, and ultimately consolidate those learnings as best practices. To make our findings as easy to follow as possible, we…

Android Studio, DataStore, Glance, Automotive OS, Google Maps, Baseline Profiles, TalkBack, Large Screens, and more! — Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Android Studio Bumblebee 🐝 stable Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) is now stable. We’ve since patched it to address some launch issues — so make sure to upgrade! …