Articles & Tutorials

Here's how to create an android custom view to implement circular SeekBar, make it as a library, open source at GitHub, and publish it to JCenter.

Nick Butcher implement a fancy ‘getting location’ animation on Android using AnimatedVectorDrawables.

The Philosophical Hacker continues his quest to understand what makes Android apps testable.

Mark Allison continues his series on the Android DownloadManager. Previously he looked at controlling individual downloads, but there is also some interesting stuff in DownloadManager itself, and in this article he’ll take a look.

OkHttp will potentially repeat your requests on a slow/unreliable connection “aggressively” until it succeeds.

"file" is not allowed to attach with Intent anymore or it will throw an exception which may cause your app to crash immediately. Here's the solution how to make it work on Android N.

Takes a look at the build cache that is coming to Android development in Android Studio 2.3 Canary 2. This can potentially have a great impact on improving build times.

With all the hype around designing and developing Android apps for the next billion, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the why, what and how of it. Arun Sasidharan shares a high-level explanation of how.

Adam Buicke shows how to create custom lint rules.

Eli Hart introduces Airbnb's new Epoxy library, which provides a composable approach to building lists in RecyclerView.

A lot of Android developers are confused or don’t even know about the difference between FragmentPagerAdapter and FragmentStatePagerAdapter. Danial Novak dives into the differences.

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Libraries & Code

A quick settings tile to quickly toggle "Don't keep activities".

This library provides a wave loading animation as a Drawable

Simple lifecycle for your MVWhatever on Android. No kidding.

Epoxy is an Android library for building complex screens in a RecyclerView

Said Tahsin Dane refined a script for recording a device in demo mode.

News

KitKat is finally toppled, Nougat doesn't move much.

This is a minor update to Android Studio 2.2. It includes a bug fixes focused around gradle, the core IDE, and lint.

Android 7.1.1 is an incremental release that builds on the features already available on Pixel and Pixel XL devices, adding a handful of new features for consumers as well as optimizations and bug fixes on top of the base Android 7.1 platform

Firebase Crash Reporting is now fully released, with many new features and enhancements to help you better diagnose and respond to crashes that affect the users of your iOS and Android mobile applications.

Videos & Podcasts

John Hoford & Nicolas Roard tell us the why and the what of Constraint Layout, its relationship with the layout editor, how efficient it is for animations & transitions, and ConstraintSet.

In this episode Kaushik & Donn talk to Ty Smith about all things Developer Platform, which spans a variety of interesting topics like building consumable SDKs, building libraries with good APIs, and creating Android integrations.