Articles & Tutorials

Rebecca Franks takes you step by step through using the new ConstraintLayout.

Another look at the new ConstraintLayout control from Google.

Ryan Harter goes a bit more in depth to look at what extensions are, how they work, and how they can help you get even more out of AutoValue.

Taking screenshots for the play store is boring as hell: several locales, three form factors, setting up content data for the screenshots. Juliane Lehmann decided to automate and shows us how.

Mark Allison continues to look at flexbox-layout, an Android layout manager which offers similar behavior to the CSS flexible box layout module.

This Google CodeLab takes you through using the new ConstraintLayout.

Marc Reichelt shares how he sets up Jenkins to track method counts and APK size over time.

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Design

Progressive disclosure is a strategy for managing information complexity.

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Libraries & Code

Toothpick is a scope tree based Dependency Injection (DI) library for Java. It is a full-featured, runtime based, but reflection free, implementation of JSR 330.

A fluent Mockito Builder class.

News

The Raspberry Pi 3 appears to be on track to receive official AOSP support from Google.

Videos & Podcasts

Wojtek Kalicinski introduces the two main types of tests that you will write for your app.

Learn the basic structure of an Espresso test and how to run and execute instrumentation tests in Android Studio.

In this mini Fragment, Donn talks about one of his favorite topics, YAGNI. YAGNI is an acronym that stands for “You Aren’t Gonna Need It”.

Here's a presentation from Droidcon SF on using Google Cloud Test Lab to improve the quality of Android apps.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about some of the new features in the Android N preview release.

Rebecca Franks tells us about Book Dash, a volunteer effort to create African storybooks that anyone can freely translate and distribute. She showed us her Book Dash Android app, and how she plans to migrate it from Parse to Firebase.

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