Articles & Tutorials

In this post, Fabio Collini shows how to test this code using Mockito and some RxJava utility classes.

César Ferreira shares some command line tips & tricks for Android development.

Google has brought Android Nougat to its second iteration with the 7.1 version (API 25). This post explores App Shortcuts: how they work, and how you can implement them.

Zarah Dominguez shares what she learned about adding new Nougat features to apps.

Roman Danylyk describes how to create a custom view, in this case a ViewPager indicator.

Using Firebase Remote Config, we can do much more than just stage rollout an entire app – we can actually stage rollout individual features. 

One of GDE Wojtek Kaliciński's favorite recent additions to Android Studio is the APK Analyzer, which you can find in the top menu under Build → Analyze APK.

When using RxJava, how do you load data that's cached locally but also needs to be refreshed remotely? Here's one way to do it.

Anup Cowkur believes a common mistake oft repeated is that developers keep including too many lifecycle events inside their presenters, destroying the separation between the view and presentation layers.

This post covers how to send push notification using Android Firebase.

Scott Meschke shares a new Rx recipe for wrapping existing APIs using fromCallable.

GDE Enrique López Mañas dives into a topic that it is not widely used or understood: the transient modifier in Java.

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Libraries & Code

Tinker is a hot-fix solution library for Android, it supports dex, library and resources update without reinstalling apk

Android Debug Database allows you to view databases and shared preferences directly in your browser in a very simple way.

BlurKit is an extraordinarily easy to use utility to get live blurring

News

Google has published ConstraintLayout beta 4. This release fixes a few bugs related to guideline positioning and use of include tag, plus some additional performance improvement.

Google Play services 10.0.x is the final release that includes full support for Android version 2.3.x (Gingerbread).

Google has released Android Studio 2.3 Canary 2 to the Canary and Dev channels. This build contains a large number of bug fixes and a handful of new features.

Tools

Devknox is a first of its kind security tool that enables developers to detect and resolve security issues as they write code in Android Studio. While it checks for basic security issues, developers also get real-time suggestions to fix these issues instantly. Consider it to be like an autocorrect for security issues.

Since ClassyShark 7.2 the APK view screen is totally re-written and became the APK Dashboard. This screen shows all the important info about your APK and its components.

Videos & Podcasts

Stickers, GIFs and other rich content are available through soft keyboards in Android 7.1 and also in revision 25.0.0 of the v13 Support Library.

Take a deep dive into Dagger's generated code to better understand Dependency Injection and Dagger 2's recent optimizations.

Effie Barak walks us through Udemy’s transition from MediaPlayer to ExoPlayer, covering the basics on how to make the switch.

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