Articles & Tutorials

In this article Danylo Volokh describes how to implement video playback in ListView & RecyclerView lists.

This article describes the steps needed to use Kotlin with the libGDX game libraries.

In the previous part of this series, we took a look on how we could hook to the lifecycle of the Activity or Fragment that is hosting our reactive routine. Now, it’s time to see how we can manage events of the Android system, with the help of a great tool.

This part of the series discusses non-essential permissions – those which are require for some nice features your app, but are not part of the core function.

Mark Allison takes a look at how we can actually request the permissions that haven’t been granted.

One of the beauties of Android Studio is how quickly is evolves and improves. Each new release introduces a set of new features, new tools, and a collection of bug fixes — all of which can potentially improve your productivity.

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Design

Microinteraction is one of the key things to care about in UI/UX design. They are, perhaps, the best proof that attention to small details is able to give big and powerful result.

Jobs

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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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Libraries & Code

How much time do you spend each day waiting for Gradle? Now you know! This is a Gradle plugin to continuously track and report your build times.

Simple implementation of Drag and Drop in RecyclerView

Generate build info for your Android project without breaking incremental compilation

This project aims to provide an ultimate and flexible image cropping experience

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News

You can now generate in the Google Play Developer Console and distribute promo codes to current and new users on Google Play to drive engagement.

Google just pushed Android Studio 2.0 Preview 7 to the canary channel. This contains a number of bug fixes on top of preview 6, particularly in the Instant Run area (there is also a 2.0.0-alpha7 version of the Gradle plugin).

Videos & Podcasts

On our first remote interview, Huyen asks Nathaniel Waggoner, engineer extraordinaire at Cyanogen, all about audio.

Huyen sits down with Kelly Shuster to talk about lessons learned from working in embedded systems, Women Who Code (WWC), accessibility, and library dependency management

In this episode Donn and Kaushik chat with the one and only Israel Ferrer Camacho. They discuss a talk Israel gave sometime back on “Android development like a pro”, exchanging war stories on patterns like MVP, MVVP clean architecture etc.

In this episode, the team recycles the guest list to bring back a former guest, Yigit Boyar, this time to talk about the RecyclerView widget.