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Android team recently released Android N Preview with many new improvements including Java 8 support by the Jack compiler. In this blog post Sergii Zhuk checks what it actually means for Android developers and how to try new language features.

rxlint is currently a single lint rule that detects a subscription without a handler for onError(). Adding rxlint to your project is easy.

Sebastiano Poggi shares a more automated way to share Android Studio settings among team members.

Testing quite often is one of the most neglected aspect in many Software projects, and in Android this has been particularly a common issue since the beginning of the platform. David Guerrero shares a good approach for writing test coverage.

The NimbleDroid team has picked up on a few tricks that help prevent monolithic lags in Android apps, boosting fluidity and response time.

If you’ve ever developed an Android app, chances are that your app has loaded some data from a remote server. What options do you have to inspect network responses when using Retrofit? Simon Percic shares a nice technique.

Mateusz Budzar tries a different approach to explain what RxJava is and how to use it.

In his last article, Ryan Harter gave a basic introduction to AutoValue, the code generating annotation processor that makes immutable value types in Java easy. Now he takes a bit of a deeper look at AutoValue and how it works.

Part 7 of the series provides an example of Higher-Order functions and passing a lambda expression as parameter in the Kotlin language.

These slide focus on analyzing the 65536 method limit from a pragmatic and down-to-earth perspective for developers. You will get to understand the problem and its possible solutions, each one of them presented with pros and cons.

A conference about our favorite Green little robots? In sunny Italy? Jeroan Mols shares a recap of what he learned at DroidconIT

If every app updates their contents all the time it would be a huge problem since turning radio on and off would drain the battery a lot. In this post by the BigNerdRanch guys you'll learn how to optimize the battery life by batching tasks using the GcmTaskService.

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Jobs

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Libraries & Code

rxlint is (currently) a single lint check that checks if a rxjava subscriber is handling the onError() callback.

An Android library that enhances the StrictMode reporting, including heads-up notification of violations, custom actions that called when violations occur, and a violation history viewer.

News

Android Studio 2.0 has been released. The underlying IDE is based on IntelliJ 15 so many great updates here. Lot's of improvements with instant run and a faster Android Emulator. Cloud Test Lab Integration can be used directly from Android Studio. Grab it while it's hot.

Tools

Try any android library hosted online directly from the command line

Videos & Podcasts

Recently, John Rodriguez, Lisa Neigut, Jake Wharton, and Lisa Wray gave lightning talks and participated in a panel discussion at Squares “Android Spring Cleaning” event.

Here's the playlist for the full set of recorded videos from Droidcon SF

In this mini Fragment, Kaushik Gopal introduces Joshua’s ninth Item: Always override hashCode when you override equals.

This is a follow up talk to Yigit Boyar's Android Application Architecture IO'15 Session. After a quick review, he goes over a list of case studies and see how they can be implemented for better user experience and performance.

Events

As droidcon Berlin 2016 is getting closer, the conference program is starting to shape. Find the first round of accepted sessions of the Call for Papers here. As announced earlier this year droidcon Berlin also has two amazing keynote speakers: Joanna Smith and Corey L. Latislaw!