Articles & Tutorials

With more than 80 percent market share, Android is the dominant mobile operating system today. It's running on countless models of smartphones and tablets, as well as many other devices. Judging by this, one would think that programming for Android is simple and easy. Or is it?

In this part, you shall cover how reverse engineering can be done by using Androguard, how to download and setup Androguard and how to decompile an apk using Androguard. Also you will have a look into the deep analysis in future parts of this series.

Scott Alexander-Bown will take a Nexus 4, which has been fairly unloved since many people upgraded to the Nexus 5, and make it act as a Swiss Army knife for multiple Android versions testing.

In this article by Mark Allison you'll learn to implement how to implement your own smooth scrolling for a large view.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a digital watch face for your Android wear powered smartwatch. In this first part we will cover the basics of structuring your project and using the Wear API in order to create your first watchface.

In this post you'll learn how the guys from BigNerdRanch are dealing with continuous delivery for Android using Jenkins.

In this blog post you'll learn how to use Transformer to reuse operators with RxJava.

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Libraries & Code

Bee is a QA/Debug tool that works like a widget in any application.

MaterialLoadingProgressBar provide a styled ProgressBar which looks like SwipeRefreshLayout's loading indicator.

Provides a simple way to see shared preferences and edit them for test.

Caesar is a tiny Java library that allows to create an asynchronous proxy-version of some synchronous bean. It means that you can still think in terms of your service/bean/object and use its methods instead of writing concurrency code.

Wasp is compact, complete, easy-in-use and all-in-one network solution.

Drag and drop re-ordering adapter for RecyclerView. A note from the author: "This is an advanced library meant to be flexible and customizable which leads to more complexity in integration. It is not meant to be a simple drop-in."

News

Official blog post on the great Google Play Services revamp: A brandnew Location Settings Dialog. The new Places API. Updates to Google Fit. A simplified App Indexing API and much more.