Articles & Tutorials

Okio’s BufferedSink is a high-level abstraction for writing binary and character data as bytes. Jake Wharton dives into some of the subtleties of the library.

Andrew Orobator shows how to track down performance issues in your app.

Code coverage is an awesome way to motivate you and your team to write more tests. But did you know that simply enabling it slows down your build significantly?

Amit Shekhar shares some useful developer tools for Android.

In this last post of the series, Rebecca Franks covers creating Espresso tests for the View created in part 5.

Over the past 2 years, Aritra Roy has learned what todo and most importantly what not to do in Android development, and shares some of those thoughts with you.

Mayowa Adegeye introduces the Android Support Annotations Library and why we should care about it.

The purpose of this post is to shed some light onto the order of operations for test cases written using Espresso’s new ActivityTestRule.

Dan Kim's list of his favorite people and resources in the Android community to help in your quest for excellence.

Introducing a new MVP library called ThirtyInch with a Presenter for Activities and Fragments which survives orientation changes. The library has grown 16 months internally and is now available to everyone.

Now that Firebase is official and is being advertised, this article highlights the differences between the two solutions offered by Google itself: Google Analytics and Firebase Analytics.

Recently Mark Allison encountered a problem with some VectorDrawable which caused much head scratching but there turned out to have a logical explanation and really quite straightforward fix.

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Design

In this article Nick Babich examines three basic navigation patterns for mobile apps  and describe strengths and weaknesses of each of them.

Get the most out of your design reviews with this simple guide to understanding what to expect from each stage in the design process.

Jobs

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Senior Mobile Developer - Android to be part of a fast-paced, innovative, and highly visible teams building web and mobile software for our commercial and R&D lines of business. The position will be located in Raritan, NJ or Horsham, Pennsylvania.

Libraries & Code

Green Coffee is an Android library that allows you to run Cucumber scenarios in your instrumentation tests. Visit the wiki for more detailed information.

A new MVP library for Android.

Tools

Exynap is an Android Studio plugin which helps you find and implement the code you require in an instant

Videos & Podcasts

Donn and Kaushik discuss how they use git for their development workflow. They also touch on semantic versioning and how they rollout new versions of their app in a controlled fashion.

While at Droidcon Berlin, Huyen sits down with Eugenio Marletti, GDE and Lead Android Engineer of Clue to talk about the highly custom UI work done on Clue, which recently was given Editor's Choice status in the Google Play store.

Events

Mobicode conference will gather best Android, iOS, cross-platform developers on the 3rd of December in Minsk, Belarus.After the conference great networking and afterparty will be waiting for you. Don`t miss a chance to communicate with speakers and participants!