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 | January 2021 | | | It's time to check your Modern Android Development (MAD) score | | Kickoff the year by discovering your MAD score. The MAD scorecard, a plugin for Android Studio, lets you see (and share) just how modern your Android app is. Find out how your use of developer products such as Kotlin, Android Studio, and Jetpack are boosting your score. | | | | | |  | | The latest MAD Skills content | | MAD Skills, our series of videos and articles providing tips and best practices for modern Android development, continues to expand. Tune into the latest playlists: | Motion layout—learn how to create rich UI animations using the MotionLayout visual editor and API. | | Kotlin—learn about using Room, WorkManager, and other Kotlin APIs. Tune into the Q&A for more Kotlin content. | | | | | | | New Kotlin case studies |  | | Twitter | | Twitter began using Kotlin in 2017, and saw improvements in their developer productivity and code reliability. Read more about why Twitter decided to build new features in Kotlin. | | | | |  | | SmartNews | | Japan based app SmartNews started using Kotlin in 2019 and saw a 20% reduction in lines of code, but were also happy to see Kotlin positively impact their team morale and hiring. | | | | | | | | | | Featured Training: Android Basics in Kotlin Unit 3 | | Continue your journey to becoming an Android Kotlin developer with the latest unit in the Android Basics in Kotlin course. Learn how to add multiple screens to an app, build in-app navigation with the Jetpack Navigation component, and see how the Android Jetpack Architecture components help you build robust and scalable apps. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did you find this newsletter useful? | | | | | | | | |
