A collection of official Android documentation that I wrote while employed at Google, with editorial tweaks from the amazing tech writers I worked with!

Includes build and project structure overviews and details on dependency resolution and maintenance.

Read on for the links! Good stuff!

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Let's learn Kotlin from a Java point of view. We'll start by looking at some basics of Variables, Values, Classes, Properties and Constructors.
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There should never exist any language feature such that adding a new type to a referenced package can break your existing code. Import-on-demand (aka "start imports") is one such feature... And it's evil...
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I'm really tired of hearing folks incorrectly state "primitives are passed by value, objects are passed by reference".

So I'm gonna rant, and you're gonna listen...

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Maintainable applications can be quite tricky to develop. One of the keys to creating such a beast, is to properly layer your application.
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Property editors are a way to make your bean more user-friendly.  Bean builder tools can determine quite a lot about your bean just by looking at it and its corresponding BeanInfo class, but they usually have only very simple methods of editing the properties in the bean.
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Let's get familiar with Java Layout Managers!
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