Articles & Tutorials

Here's an example of how to extend Pury, a runtime profiler for Android apps.

Here's an interesting approach to multi-selection on mobile. It includes code samples and a GitHub project.

In this post by Halyna Halkina you'll learn about the options on how to play audio right.

Here are some examples of how to make your app more testable using Dagger dependency injection.

Mark Allison takes a look into a new ConstraintLayout feature that was recently added: chains.

Moyinoluwa Adeyemi continues the series with the Barcode Detection API.

Rx is not unicorns and rainbows. In this post, Tomek Polański shares some frustrations while using RxJava and show that despite some bumps along the way, it is an awesome tool.

The SOLID principles are fundamental to explaining a part of what clean code is, but sometimes explaining what SOLID means is a task in itself. This blog posts shows how we tried to re-examine SOLID visually to help all our developers embrace and learn from SOLID design.

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Design

Material Design’s new suite of tools and open source projects help make product design more productive and inspiring.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

A powerful Model-View-Presenter framework for android

Input mask is a little form helper that helps you to put your input in shape. It's great for formatting phone or credit card numbers since you can easily specify the input mask.

A script which synchronizes all of the artifacts in your local Android SDK to a remote Maven artifact host.

A set of cross-platform libraries and protocols to allow the sharing of design values and live refinement of apps during the development process. Remixer helps teams use and refine design specs by providing an abstraction for these values that is accessible and configurable from both inside and outside the app itself.

News

Google has published ConstraintLayout beta 2. This build fixes a few issues with API level support under level 16. It also contains several large performance improvements (~2x speedup in many common situations).

Highlights from the Google Play services 9.8 release.

Google's Firebase team has made some new updates to the Firebase libraries for Android, iOS, as well as the Javascript SDK.

Videos & Podcasts

Presentations from GOTO Copenhagen 2016, including Israel Ferrer Camacho, Pierre-Yves Ricau, Jake Wharton, Dan Lew and Ty Smith.

Margaret Maynard provides an overview of how you can integrate advanced machine learning algorithms with your Android apps, with several examples to help you get started making Android apps with human intelligence.

Modern Android applications tend to be very modular, learn how an Event Bus can help keep your components decoupled.

The team talks with Android UI magician Israel. In this episode. He talks about tricks you can use in your Android apps to create a super slick UI, citing examples from Google Photos, Twitter and other apps.

The age old question: should I be using an event bus today? What is an event bus? Donn and Kaushik have at it and try to answer this question that gets asked constantly in the AndroidDev circles.

Sam Edwards tells us about how he uses the robot pattern to bring his QA team to Espresso testing, and how he takes screenshots automatically for debugging and UI verification

Here are the video recordings from droidcon London 2016.

Events

The Biggest B2C Mobile Event in America for Mobile Product, UX/Design and Mobile Marketing Executives.