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Android camera development can often be problematic since there are so many different kinds of devices and OS versions to support. Learn how Google’s new CameraX library aims to solve this pain point.

Google announced a lot of new features at Google IO 2019 surrounding Kotlin and Android – here are some of the highlights.

Kotlin’s destructure syntax isn’t magic. In fact, if you take a look at what’s happening under the hood it’s easy to tell what what Kotlin is doing the support the use of the destructure syntax with the extension and generated function of componentN.

Later this year, Android Q is going to appear on some of the 2.5 billion devices running on Android, so let’s take a look at some of the highlights to look forward to.

It’s that time of the year. Google I/O is right around the corner, and we couldn’t be more excited. Here’s why.

When choosing a library to make your Android application reactive, which do you choose – the trusty, ever-popular RxJava 2, or the newer, first-party LiveData? While it may be a subject of debate, the good news is that these two can work together using a tool called LiveDataReactiveStreams

Android developers now have access to Gradle Kotlin DSL v1.0! This means that we can write Gradle build scripts in our favorite language, Kotlin. Here, we’ll convert an Android project using a Groovy Gradle script to use a Kotlin Gradle script.

Android Tools Attributes are a critical element of any well designed app that uses DataBinding, RecyclerViews or top level navigation, such as a Navigation Drawer or Bottom Navigation View. This post teaches the importance of using them and how you can apply them to your project provide design-time hints to Android Studio about what type of data and attributes will be applied to your views at runtime, so that it can render them at design time.