Articles & Tutorials

In this article you'll learn how to install app variants (e.g. for staging or production versions of your app) on the same device.

Times have changed since Dan Lew's last article on pseudolocalization, so here's an update on how easy it is to do now.

Chiu-Ki Chan shares a demo repo that shows Android instrumentation testing with Dagger 2, Espresso 2 and Mockito.

jetbrains announced a library they’ve been working on for Android development on Kotlin, which, among other things allows the creation of Application Interfaces in a type-safe and dynamic way using a DSL.

This article is a step-by-step introduction to MVP on Android, from a simplest possible example to best practices. The article also introduces the new Nucleus library that makes MVP on Android extremely simple.

A common difficulty in Android programming is coordinating long-running tasks over the Activity lifecycle and avoiding the subtle memory leaks which might result. In this post you'll learn how to identify and avoid them.

Android Studio 1.2, which is currently in beta, removes any need for third-party workarounds or custom hacks to use Robolectric as a unit testing solution. This article shows how easy it is.

In this blog post you'll learn about Kotlins extension functions.

Matt Dupree launches a series of articles on reframing the approach to automated testing of Android apps.

Little tutorial how to use Retrofit to write a Android client for your REST API.

Fernando Cejas dives into why dependency injection is a useful pattern to implement, and what makes Dagger 2 even better than its predecessor.

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Libraries & Code

An Android Wear Menu implementation.

An implementation of the UISegmentedControl for Android. It's not a natural Android UI pattern - but if you need it - here is an implementation.

An Android Animation library which easily add itemanimator to RecyclerView items.

Kotlin library for Android providing useful extensions to eliminate boilerplate code in Android SDK and focus on productivity.

This project aims to provide a working page flip implementation for usage in ListView.

RichEditor for Android is a beautiful Rich Text WYSIWYG Editor for Android.

The custom ViewPager title strip which gives continuous feedback to the user when scrolling was update to 1.1.0 this week. Lot's of improvements.

News

Third Beta of Android Studio is out. Grab it while it's hot.

Videos

Nice screencast about Android Studio productivity shortcuts.