Issue #154

May 24th, 2015

Articles & Tutorials

 
link image   Image Recognition for Android Testing (testdroid.com)

This article walks you through of basic example how to use image recognition for mobile game testing and what sort of assets and test script you need for that.

 
The latest Wear update has a bunch of great new features (plus.google.com)

Android Developer Advocate Adam Koch describes some changes in the new Wearable UI library.

 
Using Transitions API to Create Android App Animations (cases.azoft.com)

Starting Android 4.4 KitKat and beyond, Transitions API became available. Transitions API also exists in the support library, so it can be used to create animation for almost any version of Android.

 
link image   Avengers meet Dagger2, RxJava and Retrofit in a clean way (saulmm.github.io)

If you are an Android developer and don't recognize the words Dagger 2, RxJava or Retrofit, this series will put some focus on giving the basic ideas of how to use these frameworks together with a Clean Architecture perspective.

 
OkHttp 2.4.0-RC1 has HttpUrl (publicobject.com)

Neither of Java’s built-in APIs make it easy to get at a URL’s query parameters. Instead, you end up having to muck around with several different classes. HttpUrl is a new class in OkHttp 2.4-RC1 that makes URLs easy.

 
Manual Layout Transitions – Part 2 (blog.stylingandroid.com)

In this article Mark Allison takes a further step and look to automatically generate animations between two distinct layout states.

 
Stinson's playbook for Mosby (hannesdorfmann.com)

Hannes Dorfmann has implemented a mail client sample to describe how to use Mosby (a Model-View-Presenter library for Android) and to answer some of the common questions that have been asked.

 
Fragmented Podcast - Episode 8 (fragmentedpodcast.com)

In this episode, Donn & Kaushik talk to Philip Simpson, one of the rockstar developers of the amazing Pocket Casts Android Application, and about some of the tools, tips and tricks that they’ve used to help them scale, grow and become more effective as indie app developers.

 
What I’ve Learned From Trying to Make An Android App Unit Testable (philosophicalhacker.com)

The conclusions from a series of articles on making android apps unit testable.

 

Sponsored

 
link image   What devices should I test on? (go.perfectomobile.com)

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link image   Get more power in your job search (hired.com)

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Libraries & Code

 
Mizuu (github.com)

Mizuu is a user friendly, open source media center application for Android. The application helps manage all your movie and TV show video files - and automatically fetches useful information about the video content, including title, plot, cover art and actors.

 
Rx-android-architecture (github.com)

This is an ambitious example project of a reference architecture for Android using RxJava for an app based on streams of data.

 
RxRecyclerView (github.com)

Crazy easy to use RecyclerView Adapter for applications using RxJava

 
JumpingBeans (github.com)

A Span-based library to make your text jump like Mexican beans! Or rather, like the '...' that Hangouts uses to indicate that someone is typing, or some other kind of ongoing activity.

 

Videos

 
link image   Building for Smartwatches with Android Wear (www.youtube.com)

Paul Lammertsma talks about wearables in a session on Android Wear during mdevcon 2015 in Amsterdam

 
Digging Into Android Startup (youtu.be)

Dave Smith's high-level walkthrough of the Android boot process, from power button to Launcher. Discussion of Android application launching process.

 

Specials

 
Survey: Which tools do you use? (vmob.me)

The Developer Economics research program tracks developer sentiment across platforms, revenues, apps, tools, APIs, segments and regions. This is the most ambitious developer survey to date, spanning across mobile, IoT, desktop and Cloud. The key insights from the survey will be given back to the community as a free download in late July.

 

Events

 
What's New in Android: Hack@Home (events.withgoogle.com)

Join Google for a two-hour live-streamed developer event, wherever you are; home, office, school. You will be able to test the new Android features announced at Google I/O and ask the Googlers who presented these new features.

 
Droidcon NYC - August 27-28 (droidcon.nyc)

Join us at the world's largest, community-driven, Android developer conference!