Articles & Tutorials

Segun Famisa shows a quick way of making your Gradle dependencies look neat, and easy to maintain

Here's an interesting approach to building Android apps using a Docker container.

Bottom Sheet is a material design component, that was added to design support library in version 23.2. In this post, Mayowa Adegeye shows how you can use them in your apps.

A walkthrough of what it takes to do certificate pinning to make your https connection even more secure.

In the previous article Mark Allison took a look at the structure of the pathData which made up one of the parallelograms in the graphic. Now he looks at how we can actually animate between two states.

Bryan Herbst is committed to making sure you choose the right commit() for your FragmentTransaction.

Ferhat Parmak shows how a potential circular dependency can be turned to be a one way dependency by using RxJava.

With recent release of Android Support Library, revision 24 Google developers baked into v4 library a new helper class for asynchronous inflation of layouts.

In part 5, Rebecca Franks takes a look at interacting with the Presenter created in part 4 and will create the UI to display the list of search results.

DiffUtil calculates the difference between two given lists, the old list that is currently displayed and the new that you have recently obtained. The DiffResult contains the data updates that can be dispatched to your adapter.

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Design

Free from Facebook Design Resources, here are photos of hands holding various phones, to be used in any presentation of your designs.

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Libraries & Code

An Android library that helps you to make a cool two steps login (such as the Google web login) in Material Design way.

A Pcm / Wav audio recorder with simple api.

A new challenger in a sea of dependency injection libraries. Claims to be the fastest, but needs some side-by-side benchmarks to show it.

News

Android 7.0 Nougat has been rolling out to users, starting with Nexus devices. At the same time, Google is pushing the Android 7.0 source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

Videos & Podcasts

Jake Wharton's 360AnDev talk is an exploration of hidden costs associated with some of Java’s features. He focuses on optimizations relevant for both library and application developers and on the tools that can be used to measure their impact.

Danny Preussler's presentation on internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) from droidcon Zagreb 2016.

In this power-packed episode the team talks to Jake Wharton about the advances in RxJava 1.x since the last time he was on the show and also looking ahead at the advancements coming down with RxJava 2.

Daniele Bonaldo presents on the Complications API at Londroid.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Adam Lesinski from the Android framework team. Adam works on aapt (Android Asset Packaging Tool).

In this episode the team talks about Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with Fernando Cejas.