Android dev!

Just noting down some useful things for Android Dev

Linting

Jitpack

If you are going to create your own Android Libraries, then you can use Jitpack to build your library, so that you can pull it in as a Gradle implementation dependency. It works best with Github, especially now that they have free private repos. If you want Jitpack to build private repos, you need to pay for that service.

Dependency injection

• Koin

Putting your money where your mouth is

The following things are worth paying for:

• Gitkraken
• Jitpack
• Cool logo generator!

PNG to SVG

• Online converter

Kotlin MultiPlatform

There is Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Kotlin MultiPlaform Mobile (KMM), which is of interest as an alternative to cross platform systems to share code between iOS and Android. Choosing between KMM and Flutter is actually a difficult choice at the moment, although their approaches are entirely different.

Some things to note:

• KMP is deeply experimental at this time of writing and the documentation is also not the best
• The Kotlin code is compiled into an Objective-C Framework for iOS consumption, so now you need to know Kotlin, Swift and Objective-C
• Implementing the iOS UI natively may be non trivial, particularly if the design is complex.

Getting started

I found it helpful to watch this video by Kevin Galligan and Ellen Shapiro. A reading list of interesting stuff to get you started is here