Articles & Tutorials

In this post you will see how to achieve an effect that you can observe in Google+ app - hiding Toolbar and FAB (and any other views) when list is scrolling down and showing it again when it’s scrolling up. This behavior is mentioned in Material Design Checklist.

In this series of articles you'll take a look in to scrolling behaviour of RecyclerView, and discover some oddities that may crop up, and some options for fixing them.

We are going to revisit the mythical problems of the play store and try to figure out where we can improve.

Matt Compton let's you dive into flow and mortar

For this tutorial, Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz will go over using the Android Auto framework to browse media and create a simple media player.

In this post by Andreas Schrade you'll learn how to tweak an Android app to work as a kiosk app. That means it boots from startup, it intercepts the back button, it will prevent dimming and much more.

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Libraries & Code

A simple take on creating a easy to use and fast material drawer implementation

A huge and good list of Android libs from Github

Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.

A tool that facilitates working with Spans on TextViews or any extension of them (EditTexts, Buttons...).

Secure and easy key value storage for Android. Internally it uses AES for the crypto and SharedPreferences for the storage. With Hawk you can secure persist save any type and collections of types.

Videos

One of the most problematic performance problems on Android is the easiest to create; thankfully, it’s also easy to fix.

Specials

State of the Developer Nation Q1 2015 research report investigates the latest trends and discusses the rise of Swift, developing the Internet of Things, enterprise vs. consumer revenues and global platform Mindshare. The report is available for free!