Articles & Tutorials

Several months ago, as a way to get up to speed with using and unit-testing RxJava, Cain Wong developed and posted this reference application. This blog post describes the project.

In this article Mark Allison looks at how we can include the necessary permissions checking and requesting in all of our Activities without having large amounts of duplicate code.

DevOps is a well known movement whose main objective is to automate software delivery. It aims at continuous testing, code quality, feature development and easier maintenance releases.

Oleg Šelajev will look at using the Retrofit 2 HTTP client to see how complicated vs how beneficial it is for his application.

Readability is one of the key components to creating high quality unit and integration tests. Yet, we may hinder the readability of our tests by bogging them down with needless information

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Jobs

Companies around the world use Yammer to allow their employees to communicate and collaborate openly. We're looking for great developers who want to have a huge impact. Microsoft is helping people around the globe achieve more by giving them the best possible tools for any moment.

Lifesum is looking for product-aware engineers that are creative builders. If you are someone passionate about building great Android apps, we will love to talk to you.

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We’re looking for agile mobile engineers who are passionate about the product they’re building. Ideally, you’ll have a general understanding of and experience in JavaScript, Android and/or iOS SDKs, and mobile design patterns. PHP is a plus, but not a requirement.

Libraries & Code

Scalable vector graphics for Android

Here's a gist for an OkHttp interceptor that logs requests as curl shell commands

Here you have a full example project that shows how you can implement different tests types into your android projects. The goal of this repository is to show the way to have a isolated architecture and how you can mock and test all the layers or components of the project.

A sweeter Espresso. Cappuccino makes it easy to add custom IdlingResources.

We are here to practice UI Testing. We are going to use Espresso to interact with the Application UI. We are going to use Dagger2 to replace production code with Test Doubles. We are going to practice pair programming.

News

Starting today, the Cardboard SDKs for Unity and Android support spatial audio, so you can create equally immersive audio experiences in your virtual reality (VR) apps.

Google has just pushed Android Studio 2.0 Preview 5 to the canary channel. This build contains a large number of fixes relative to Preview 4 from last month

Videos & Podcasts

Column Selection Mode is a great way to modify multiple lines of code at the same time. Watch this short clip and learn how to take advantage of this great shortcut.

Events

Last day to submit your talk for Droidcon SF! Call for Papers ends Jan 17th. Submit your talk or get a ticket.