Articles & Tutorials

On 1st April 2015 Mark Allison published a joke app to Google Play named Dirty Phrasebook, based upon Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch. I this series of articles he’ll take a look in to the code (which will be open-sourced along with the final article).

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik continue their conversation with Dan Lew on RxJava. In the final part of this 2 part series, they talk about many useful RxJava operators and other intricacies of using RxJava in Android.

In this second part of the series, Wiebe Elsinga explains the functional testing framework called Espresso.

Mosby library helps you to build good, robust and reuseable software by implementing Model-View-Presenter pattern on android along with some nice features like ViewState for handling screen orientation changes easily.

A two part series about the internals of the Android graphics pipeline. Some really interesting stuff in there if you're into the guts of Android.

This article covers how to set your project up so that it will automatically publish to the Google Play alpha testing channel.

This article describes the differences between dependency injection framework Dagger versions 1 and 2, and how to migrate your app to the newer version.

Ryan Harter makes use of custom Drawables to encapsulate his logic just like you would for a custom View.

Mark Murphy writes about a regression in the behavior of AlarmManager on Android 5.1

Antonio Leiva creates a sample Android app which will basically connect to a music rest API and return some info about a set of bands, using the Kotlin language .

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Jobs

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Libraries & Code

A powerful Android chart view / graph view library, supporting line- bar- pie- radar- and candlestick charts as well as scaling, dragging and animations.

Small library that provides... bouncing dots.

DaVinci is an image downloading and caching library for Android Wear.

Simple, pretty and powerful logger for android

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Videos

In this screencast Donn Felker demonstrates how you can set up a private CircleCI build server (Continuous Integration Server) that will build your Android application

An introduction to Groovy, Gradle and the Android plugin by Daniel Lew