Articles & Tutorials

If you're new to the field of layouting Android apps understanding ScaleType of ImageViews is hard. Luckily the guys at Thoughtbot have created a visual guide for a better understanding.

Dan Kim from the Basecamp teams explains his testing devices setup so that manual testing doesn’t crush your soul.

It seems that sensitive information of a password EditText can be leaked using accessibility features. The post also provides some counter measures.

Nice post by Manideep Polireddi on how to scroll right way (and thus how to consume touch events).

Very nice article by Nishant Srivastava about how to stay sane when updating an Android Project. It seems like a current trend if we compare this article to "Android-gradle extra properties" from last week but good insights nonetheless.

It's the second part by Roberto Orgiu about how to do dependency injection for the Android platform.

In this blog post you'll learn how to lever the @Bind annotation to get rid of boilerplate code in your dagger module.

Expandable RecyclerView by ThoughtBot is an open source library for expanding and collapsing groups using RecyclerView.Adapter.

In this blog post by Amit Shekhar you'll learn the arcane art of writing annotations.

Ok we can't imagine an immediate use case. But if you're into particles and confetti then this blog post is for you. It explains how they created a view that... well... displays moving confetties.

The guys at Yammer are explaining in their blogpost how they migrated some async callback code to RxJava.

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Libraries & Code

Extension for ItemTouchHelper with swipe settling, recover and no conflict with RecyclerView.

Simple full screen image viewer for Fresco library that includes "pinch to zoom" and "swipe to dismiss" gestures.

An Android library for generating simple A/B tests that makes writing simple tests simpler by using annotations.

Nishant Srivastava has released RecyclerViewHelper v24.2.0. Update your projects.

A light-weight application framework for Android.

News

If you have launched a mobile app you know that publishing & pray is not the best process. This is why Google has created a special "Early Access" collection where you can attract early adopters to try out new concepts and learn how the users will use your app.

Lot's of bugfixes and almost there for final release. Grab it while it's hot.

Videos & Podcasts

Kristin Marsicano tells us all about the Android activity lifecycle. What happens to your app when the user switches to play Pokémon go and the system run outs of memory?

In the second part you'll learn about Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) with Fernando Cejas from SoundCloud.

Specials

Cheatsheet about tips and tricks for Android Development for Android Studio, Emulator and many more.

Events

Stay up to date about upcoming Android development events and conferences with our conferences list.