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Engineering

Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

At re:Invent we announced Aurora DSQL, and since then I’ve had many conversations with builders about what this means for database engineering. What’s particularly interesting isn’t just the technology itself,…

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3 min

Learn About Google Cloud’s Updated Renderer For The Maps SDK For Android

We’re always looking for ways to improve your Google Maps Platform development experience on Android, so we’ve been working on an updated renderer for the Maps SDK for Android to…

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6 min

Migrating The AOSP QuickSearchBox App To Kotlin

Overview For the past three years, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) applications team has taken on the task of converting AOSP apps from Java to Kotlin. This pursuit was begun as…

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2 min

How-To: Install Kotlin on Ubuntu 22.04

Prerequisites Ubuntu 22.04 Java is installed. See here on how to install Java on Ubuntu 22.04. Install via SDKMAN 01. Open a terminal and install unzip and zip programs needed…

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9 min

5 Years Of Kotlin On Android — The Extended Interviews

We’ve published a celebration post on our blog to recognize the 5 year anniversary of official support for Kotlin on Android. In the making of that post, I had the chance to…

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2 min

Programming

Independent Versioning Of Jetpack Compose Libraries

Starting today, the various Jetpack Compose libraries will move to independent versioning schemes. This creates the possibility for sub-groups such as androidx.compose.compiler or androidx.compose.animation to follow their own release cycles. Allowing these libraries to be…

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2 min

Jetpack Compose 1.1 Is Now Stable!

Today, we’re releasing version 1.1 of Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern, native UI toolkit, continuing to build out our roadmap. This release contains new features like improved focus handling, touch target sizing, ImageVector caching, and…

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4 min

Programming

DataStore And Dependency Injection

In the following posts from our Jetpack DataStore series, we will cover several additional concepts to understand how DataStore interacts with other APIs, so that you’ll have everything at your disposal…

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9 min

Programming

All About Proto DataStore

In this post, we will learn about Proto DataStore, one of two DataStore implementations. We will discuss how to create it, read and write data and how to handle exceptions, to better understand…

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1 min

Mobile

Announcing The Android Basics In Kotlin Course

We are always looking for ways to make learning Android development accessible for all. In 2020, we announced the launch of Android Basics in Kotlin, a free self-paced programming course. Since…

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Kotlin

Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

Learn About Google Cloud’s Updated Renderer For The Maps SDK For Android

Migrating The AOSP QuickSearchBox App To Kotlin

How-To: Install Kotlin on Ubuntu 22.04

5 Years Of Kotlin On Android — The Extended Interviews

Independent Versioning Of Jetpack Compose Libraries

Jetpack Compose 1.1 Is Now Stable!

DataStore And Dependency Injection

All About Proto DataStore

Announcing The Android Basics In Kotlin Course

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