Articles & Tutorials

A nice intro to the vision library that has been introduced with Play Services 8.1. It shows you how to do face detection and it also shows you to detect even more (like facial gestures).

This part of the reverse engineering series focuses on the dex2jar tool.

Nice insights in different build times for different build tools.

In this post you'll learn how to use Lyfts image cropping library named Scissors. If you're displaying profile pictures in any way then you should read this post and check out the library.

Pretty comprehensive list of Android learning resources.

In this post you'll learn how to setup Espresso in your Android project, and will write a simple acceptance test, that checks that a list of Premier League teams is sorted alphabetically.

Usually we only hear good things from people who use Realm. This guy has an interesting experience to share that shows the opposite.

In this article you'll learn how to use ProGuard to avoid the Dalvik method limit

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Jobs

At Glownet, we transform live events. We challenge ourselves to build a mission critical network-independent NFC-based cashless / access system for the festival goers all around the world performing more than 150K monetary transactions per day. Are you up for the challenge?

We need a smart engineer with 3+ years experience to develop the future of Telematics through customer facing mobile technologies. You will be commercially experienced in developing with Java and ready to get stuck in as part of a great team here at MyDrive.

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Libraries & Code

An android colorpicker with changeable color drawable.

Android library helps take screenshots for publishing on Google Play Store. What a time saver!

A highly configurable library to do loading progress with animated balls.

A material-styled android view that provisions picking of a date, time & recurrence option, all from a single user-interface.

An image cropping library by the Lyft team. Please also see the introductionary blog post.

ClassyShark is a handy browser for Android executables. It has clients for both Android (apk) and Desktop (jar). With ClassyShark you can open APK/Zip/Class/Jar files and analyze their contents.

A library to use comfortably the toolbar retractable Android.

This plugin helps you to easily handle variant specific settings with yaml format.

News

Android Studio 2.0 has been released as preview. The biggest news is the instant run feature that allows faster deployments. A new GPU Profiler helps you to improve your OpenGL ES code. So grab it while it's hot!

Videos & Podcasts

This tutorial series describes how to migrate android applications to android marshmallow focusing on how to implement the runtime permissions.

Events

Join the first ever Droidcon in San Francisco - the world’s largest community-driven Android developer conference! Bringing together leading Android experts from around the country and abroad for 2 full days of Android talks, workshops, expos, demos & more. March 17-18 2016