Articles & Tutorials

Here's a quick example on how to add a static shortcut to an app.

Google has released Nougat 7.1 which bundles some interesting features under the hood. One of these extra features is App Shortcuts.

Alex Styl shares a method to implement search UI similar to that in the Android Phone app.

In this concluding series on several new features of Nougat, Mark Allison looks at another new Notification feature introduced in Nougat: Direct Reply.

Pablo Guardiola decided to write a series of posts explaining how alarms and sensors work and how Doze mode affects their normal behavior.

This spring, Google officially added Bottom Navigation to Material Design Guidelines. Now a new control is included in the Design Support Library, starting with version 25.0.0.

Inspired by Florina Muntenescu's talk on MVC, MVP & MVVM, Bill Phillips takes a closer look at what MVVM means.

Mirek Stanek shows a new approach in Dagger 2.7 to create ActivitySubcomponent without having AppComponent object reference.

In this tutorial Mostafa Gazar explains how to tinker with TensorFlow on Android.

In this post by Egor Andreevici you'll learn how to write custom test rules to dry up your setup and teardown testcode.

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Design

Roman Nurik shares a Sketch template for Android 7.1's new app shortcuts feature.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

A page indicator for Android ViewPager

A simple wrapper around Android 6.0 runtime permission api

Running instrumentation tests on Android using Espresso requires disabling animations. DeviceAnimationTestRule is a JUnit rule which disables device animations prior to running any test, and enable them after every test has been executed.

Nice layout helper to create a diagonal shape above another view.

News

Google has released Android 7.1 Developer Preview with App Shortcuts and Image Keyboard Support (great for stickers and emojis). Many more features inside - be sure to checkout the preview.

The Android team has published ConstraintLayout beta 1, their first release candidate for the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

Tools

A self-guided workshop to learn the basics and internals of Git.

Videos & Podcasts

While in New York for Droidcon NYC, Huyen hangs out with Christina Lee, Pinterest Android engineer and cross-country runner, to talk about bringing Kotlin into your production apps.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Stas Negara from the Firebase team about the Espresso Test Recorder, a feature in Android Studio which lets you easily record Android UI tests.

Interview with Moyinoluwa Adeyemi about her Yorùbá Watch Faces app, and her Face Detector work. Moyinoluwa also tells us about the great developers now available in Nigeria!

In this 360|AnDev talk Christina Lee discusses how things were traditionally done in Android, and how RxJava can help solve some of problematic implementations. It also provides examples of the most common RxJava use cases and common pitfalls.