Articles & Tutorials

Face detection is the process of automatically locating human faces in visual media (digital images or video).

Joe Birch shares a detailed article about using Firebase Remote Config in your app.

This article shows why and when use ArrayMap and SparseArray to optimize your Android Applications.

Some tips on how to achieve fast rendering in RecyclerView.

Writing a value class with its getters and setters is a boring and often an error prone procedure. All you have to do it define your fields and annotate your class appropriately using AutoValue by Google.

In this post Hannes Dorfmann explains why he's switched from interface to an abstract class as base class in one of his library projects.

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There are three choices when implementing a Material Design bottom sheet . This is a quick post about using BottomSheetDialog.

Saúl Molinero shows Android Studio's powerful VCS integration, and how its diff & merge tools can be used by other apps.

Chiu-Ki Chan shares a neat layout trick for a resizable vector image and two labels.

This article analyzes switching from side navigation (hamburger menu) to bottom navigation, which is now acceptable under Material guidelines.

In this loosely-related series of articles, Mark Allison is looking at various aspects of new Nougat features to see how to best make use of them. In this article he looks at another new Notification style introduced in Nougat.

Ha Duy Trung adds a bottom sheet dialog to a sample app.

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Moyinoluwa Adeyemi shows how to use Google's Mobile Vision API for face detection.

Some quick tips for using spans for easily formatting text with custom fonts.

This article series introduces the Reductor library, implementing Redux for Android.

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Libraries & Code

ImageTransition is a small android library to transition between a circular ImageView from one Activity to a rectangular ImageView in the launched Activity.

Design Patterns implemented in Kotlin

News

Google released Android Studio 2.2.1 to the canary, dev, and beta channel and on Oct 10th they released to stable. This build contains a handful of bug fixes on top of Android Studio 2.2. 

Videos & Podcasts

10 best practices to help you develop and launch apps and games which follow Google Play’s Developer Program Policies

The Fragmented team talks with the all-star multi-talented GDE Chiu-Ki Chan about testing, diving into leveraging Mockito for your testing needs.