Articles & Tutorials

Lewis McGeary shows how to use the AnimatedVectorDrawable class to create a morphing effect between two drawables.

Mayowa Adegeye describes how to write instrumentation tests for your Android application. It covers the usage of Espresso to write UI tests and how to run these tests via Android studio.

Mario Viviani introduces building apps for Amazon's Fire TV.

Moyinoluwa Adeyemi introduces the process for creating a simple watch face for Android Wear.

Łukasz Wiśniewski introduces the architecture and use of the new router library, which helps resolve urls into specific UI of an app.

The Vimeo team have optimized GSON parsing in their Android app with the newly open-sourced "stag-java" library.

This post looks at creating a presenter which communicates with the repository and conveys information to the view. It also includes writing unit tests for the presenter.

In this post, Rebecca Franks looks at getting a list of users from the Github API and writing unit tests for it.

Jeroen Mols demonstrates how to configure Bitbucket as a free private remote Maven repository and automate everything in one simple Gradle script.

Segun shows you how to use Firebase for Crash reporting in order to improve the quality of apps that you ship.

Mark Allison is a huge fan of AnimatedVectorDrawables. In this new series he shares the techniques for a nice animated isometric graphic.

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Design

Liam Spradlin shares his thoughts on the new bottom navigation bar in the Material guidelines.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Stag improves Gson performance by automatically generating reflection-less TypeAdapters for your model objects

A fork of Clay Allsopp's routable-android, a dynamic in app URL router for Android. It drops the Activity/Intent dependency and adds a couple new features.

News

Dashlane and Google, along with other leading password managers are collaboratively developing “Open YOLO” (You Only Login Once)–an open API for App Developers to access passwords stored in your password manager, and securely log you into applications!

The new "Magenta" kernel, Flutter for UI, Dart for programming and Escher for rendering.

Google has release Android Studio 2.2 Beta, with a large number of bug fixes in Constraint Layout and new Layout Editor, Instant Run and Build as well as memory performance improvements.

Videos & Podcasts

Scoped Directory Access is an alternate to the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions that allows your app to request access to only the directories it needs, whether those are on the primary storage volume or on secondary storage volumes such as an SD card or USB attached storage devices.

Many people want to know more about annotation processing, so in this episode we pick GDE Mike Evans’ brains on the topic and ask him a whole bunch of questions.

Specials

Anastasia Lopez & Romain Piel submitted a talk about the Android community to several conferences, on how much it has improved, the major problems it still has, and how we can all collaborate to make it better.

Events

Google would love for you to join us in London for their Google developer day for agencies on 9th September, 2016 at Skills Matter. This is a unique opportunity for agencies focused on Android and iOS development to learn from Google's domain experts and each other.