Articles & Tutorials

One step to improve the rendering time of your application is to have a look at the GPU Overdraw tool.

Some time ago the author found a case of a really curious behaviour - PDF pages rendered to a Bitmap with transparent background showed strange artifacts around text. Here's what it was.

Thomas Nield takes a hand-on approach to understand observeOn() and subscribeOn().

One of the nicest features of OkHttp is its caching mechanism. In this post Damian Petla goes through all relevant steps in caching and explain how it works

You never know what might kill your Activity, which is why you need to be prepared!

In this example the author shows how to use Realm database in app with MVP architecture and Dagger library.

Hannes Dorfmann highlights how important an presentation model in MVP is by giving an example how to deal with RecyclerView Adapters dataset changes, how to apply animated dataset changes and why a presentation model is helpful in this case.

This post sheds some light on a networking architecture that can fit easily into the MVP pattern while also allowing our network requests to live beyond the life of an activity/fragment with very little effort

Donn Felker describes a novel way to use Fabric's new screengrab tool to simplify validation of your internationalized application.

In this series Mark Allison will create an approximation of the material circular indeterminate ProgressBar which will be backwardly compatible to API 11.

One of the main features of Kotlin that Vishnu Rajeevan fallen in love with is class extensions. This feature comes in handy quite often when working with APIs that are not yet RxJava compatible in a project that is using RxJava extensively.

Improving application startup and load time has been a priority for The New York Times Android development team. Here's some of the work they did.

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Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Automated localized screenshots of your Android app on every device

News

The Android tools team just pushed Android Studio 2.0 Beta 4 to the canary channel, as well as 2.0.0-beta4 of the Gradle plugin to jcenter.

Square fixed a certificate pinning vulnerability in OkHttp 3.1.2, and backported that to OkHttp 2.7.4.

Videos & Podcasts

This week on The Developer Show, join Timothy Jordan for a beefy TL;DR with a bunch of great links.

This video dives into an RxAndroid tutorial and tries out all the basics and explain most of the ins and outs of how these examples work!

In this video the team introduces the upcoming Q&A segment and talk about the kinds of questions that they'll answer on the show. Hint: they'd love focused questions that we can answer in 5-10 minutes. Please start posting us your questions!

Liam Spradlin designs a new premium flow/screen and a new illustration for Focus, an Android app he designed with developer Francisco Franco.

Books

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