Articles & Tutorials

Emrullah Lüleci demonstrates how easy it is to add the new Material style bottom sheets to your apps.

Roberto Orgiu introduces the dependency injection pattern and how to implement it using Dagger.

Does a shell started from an application have the same permissions as a shell started via adb? Dorian Cussen answers the question!

Here are some big wins for switching to Kotlin from Java + well known libraries.

Earlier this year Yigit Boyar decided to rewrite the internals of the Android Priority JobQueue, which is a task queue he wrote at Path to provide a decent offline experience in the app.

Dan Lew shares a technique for SQLite schema updates in the Trello app.

New password visibility toggle on TextInputLayout is great, but Nick Butcher decided both the button and the text transition should be animated!

Joe Birch shares the new code style for the Android App at Buffer.

Miroslaw Stanek goes through all scenarios to try and implement production ready UserScope in Dagger.

Lambda Expressions are one of the most important features added to Java 8. Here's Mayowa Adegeye's take on how they're enabled for Android development.

Moyinoluwa Adeyemi shares a beginner's introduction to writing apps for Android Wear.

Segun Famisa shows how to implement Firebase's Remote config, which allows you to update your app without necessarily deploying a new version.

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Design

The August 2016 release of the material design spec includes several new sections, and a couple updated ones.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

AutoValue extension for creating Firebase Database objects

An annotation based tool for saving and restoring instance states

A Custom TextView with trim text

A Job Queue specifically written for Android to easily schedule jobs (tasks) that run in the background, improving UX and application stability.

News

Lots of updates in Android Support Library 24.2.0, including the v4 Support Library split into several smaller modules.

Videos & Podcasts

In this video we take a look at what the material design principles are, and some example apps that innovate on those principles to create great experiences.

In this mini fragment Kaushik talks about some cool Junit 4 tricks using Parameterize, Enclosing test runners.

To understand how Espresso idling resources work, Chiu-Ki Chan will step through the basic Espresso idle loop and show how to enhance that with a custom idling resource.

While in Berlin for Droidcon Berlin, Huyen has a chat with Florina Muntenescu, Android developer of upday, to learn about the MVVM architecture

While in Berlin for Droidcon, Huyen catches up with Jeroen Mols, Android developer for Philips, and ask him all about connected devices.

Specials

Zarah Dominguez shares her experience of becoming an Android developer.

Events

#AnDevCon, Nov. 29-Dec. 01 San Francisco, is the world's top Android apps event. 35 exhibits. Use code ANDROID for $200 discount.

There are many big Android conferences and events around the globe. Maybe there is one you want to be part of?