Articles & Tutorials

In these slides we will learn the basics of Unit Testing and its importance and on how to write new tests and improve existing ones by reviewing some Android Github projects.

In this article the guys at Spire tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Android Notifications. They cover the topics from GCM to Auto-Synced Notifications.

Like button is one of the most important strategy to increase traffic to your website. No surprise why Facebook introduced a Native Like Button, LikeView, allowed developer to add Like button natively to their Android/iOS apps.

Now all the statistics on your apps and games (installs, ratings, GCM usage, etc.) are accessible & exportable via Google Cloud Storage.

A quick tutorial on migrating from Dagger 1 to 2

This article explores the challenges of making wearable apps, by building an Android wear watch face with real-time weather data. Part 3 takes a look at the wearable APIs.

Unit testing Android apps is hard, and sometimes it can be impossible because of the way we are encouraged to structure them. In this post, Matt Dupree outlines an alternative approach to structuring Android applications that will make it easier to unit test them.

 A lot of perf tricks used on Android are really workarounds for issues in Dalvik. ART (the runtime in Android 5+) has very different perf characteristics. The trick that's most likely to be affected is object pooling. Here's why.

Jose Arinas describes a Java reflection workaround for Bluetooth connectivity issues.

In part 5 of the series on Mark Allison's Dirty Phrasebook app, he turns attention to the MainActivity which hooks up the translation engine, layouts, and InputView that he's covered in the previous articles.

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Design

Usability testing is a technique used to help discover problems or bottle-necks in your design. But there are different types of user testing that suit different types of goals. Scripted or un-scripted? Here we’ll explain the differences between the two and how you can make the most of them.

It also includes an animation preset for making material design shadows, and some other rigs like the navigation bar, status bar, and touch ripples.

Jobs

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At Prolific Interactive, we don’t just build products that work - we care about how they look and feel. That’s why popular brands like Angie's List and Udacity trust us to build their apps. Work here to write beautiful code and be on the front lines of mobile product development and innovation.

Libraries & Code

A Material Design ViewPager easy to use library

Tray provides an advanced API which makes it super easy to access and maintain your settings data with upgrade and migrate mechanisms. Welcome to SharedPreferences 2.0 aka Tray.

News

Android Studio 1.2 is now available! This version updates the IDE to be based on IntelliJ 14.1, which brings a large number of new features to the IDE. For more information, see the release notes.

Tools

Android tool lets you do common Android designer and developer tasks in one click: Take screenshots & videos, Install (sideload) APKs without the Play Store, Take bug reports, Use common scripts. Do all these on all devices connected to your Mac, in one click

Videos

Android App Indexing allows you to connect pages from your website with specific content within your app. Better still, users who have your app installed can open it directly from Google’s mobile search results.

Here's the video Keynote of Droidcon Italy 2015 with Mario Viviani and Sebastiano Poggi

Sky is an experimental open-source framework for writing mobile applications in Dart. Sky brings continuous deployment, fast development cycles, and designed-for-small-screen 60Hz user experiences to Dart developers on Android.