Articles & Tutorials

Android lets you mash apps together. When you do, cool things start to happen.

In this blog post the author investigates how you can get started with building WebRTC into your Android apps, using the native libraries provided by the WebRTC Initiative.

How do you work with different hosts, icons, or even package names, from a build of the same app. One easy way to go is Product Flavors.

This year’s Google IO introduces an awesome new framework for Android developers that allows for “binding” of views to fields on an arbitrary object

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Design

Select a device to view detailed information, recommended material design measurements, and values for portrait and landscape orientations.

The author describes how he redesigned Photo Editor by Aviary for Google’s new design language.

Material icons are beautifully crafted, delightful, and easy to use in your web, Android, and iOS projects. Learn more about material design and our process for making these icons in the system icons section of the material design guidelines.

This showcase recognizes excellence in applying material design to create engaging user experiences. The six winners represent best-in-class applications of specific aspects of material design.

Jobs

We’re looking for a Senior Android Developer with the skills and passion to help us build innovative digital products for a wide range of clients, and also our own products and services. We value collaboration and happiness to enable our teams to deliver products that make a real difference.

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Libraries & Code

A Gradle plugin for Android to generate an ORMLite configuration file and boost DAO creation

Demos the new Android Design library

News

Today, a fresh release of Android Studio hit the Canary channel, and it brings one of the most often requested features: C/C++ support with refactoring, code completion, and debugging capabilities.

Brillo extends the Android platform to all your connected devices, so they are easy to set up and work seamlessly with each other and your smartphone.

You’ll find the addition of Smart Lock for Passwords, Instance ID, new APIs for Google Cloud Messaging and Google Cast, as well as access to the Google Maps API on Android Wear devices.

The Google Identity Platform is a suite of developer tools that cuts friction out of every step of getting people signed in: Smart Lock for Passwords, Google Sign-in, and Identity Toolkit.

Devices running the Android M Preview system help ensure a good experience for users by automatically backing up app data to Google Drive.

Get ready for the next version of Android. Test your apps on Nexus 5, 6, 9, and Player. Explore what's new — runtime permissions, Doze and App Standby power-saving features, new assist technology, and more.

Videos

Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google

Jamal Eason, Tor Norbye and Xavier Ducrohet share what's new in Android Development Tools

Chet Haase and Dan Sandler quickly share what's new in Android