Articles & Tutorials

Rebecca Franks demonstrates how to use Firebase Remote Config for A/B testing in your apps.

Animating objects in Android is seemingly easy. Add RxJava to the mix and you have a very powerful tool for chaining animations with other animations, random actions, etc.

Florina Muntenescu & Erik Hellman worked together on the MVP & RxJava sample. Here's a look at how they applied good architecture patterns and the pros and cons of their approach.

Stuart Kent shares a potential problem that might be overlooked when reusing Gradle builtType initializations.

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Radosław Piekarz shows how to blend RxJava with Android's Data Binding.

Hadi Hariri demonstrates how to use Mockito 2 to easily mock Kotlin classes, which are final by default.

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Victor Nascimento describes his experience at Droidcon NYC this year.

Florina Muntenescu shares her experience at Droidcon NYC 2016.

Almost all Gradle projects (including all Gradle-based Android projects) uses some configurations. What does configuration mean in Gradle?

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Libraries & Code

Simple demo which demonstrates how to wrap Android DataBinding ObservableField into RxJava's Observable.

A quick settings tile to quickly set the animator duration scale.

A date/time picker that understands english input.

We don't know the reason why it's out there - but here is a list of all Android permissions.

News

Mockito 2 demands even cleaner tests: remove unnecessary stubs, detect incorrect code with improved argument matchers, use Java 8 answers, and more.

jetBrains announces the first EAP build for Kotlin 1.0.5.

android-apt will no longer be developed by Hugo Visser since the functionality has been integrated into the Android build Gradle Plugin.

Videos & Podcasts

Android 7.0 Nougat contains a number of optimizations around background processing, intending to limit the amount of memory thrashing caused when many apps listen for the same implicit broadcast via manifest registered receivers.

While at DevFest DC, Huyen chats with Antonio Zugaldia, DC Android Meetup organizer and Android engineer for Mapbox, about the DC Android Meetup and Mapbox!

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