Articles & Tutorials

Firebase Notifications can be confusing, there are different ways to implement them and not all behave the same. Miquel Beltran went through that learning process, and wrote this article to help you with this journey.

Chet Haase writes about cleaning his room as a kid. And some other stuff about RecyclerView.

These things have been discussed before but Umesh Basnet gives a quite good summary on things to consider before running background tasks.

In this older post by Kartikey Kuswhaha you'll learn how to group data in a recycler view.

This first article introduces Flutter (Google's cross-platform framework for mobile) and starts with a simple hello world app.

A big project in Android with several modules also has several Gradle files that need to be configured, and that´s a tedious task.

The tools and features developers are using to increase app engagement.

Anshul Jain explains best practices of writing the test cases using Espresso. These practices will apply on both unit and instrumentation tests.

Egor Andreevici provides step by step instructions for writing an Android Things app to interact with a Pimoroni Rainbow HAT.

Previously Mark Allison looked at how to record audio to a file on a device, and now he turns to audio playback, and applying the all important audio transformations.

Carl Whalley's intro to Android Things and what it can do.

Pablo A. Martínez shares how to set up a Jenkins server with Docker for SQLServer and SonarQube.

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Design

The new growth and communications guidelines section contain best practices and components to help users quickly and intuitively understand what they can do with your app, including onboarding, feature discovery, and gesture education.

Jobs

The Uber mobile team is looking for talented developers who are passionate about accelerating a worldwide transportation revolution. We're just getting started with our millions of users and hundreds of markets, and exciting challenges loom ahead.

Libraries & Code

An imageView can auto scroll with device rotating.

Decorate your TextView easily.

Showcase application of SQLDelight and SQLBrite working together based on SQLBrite's sample

A simple script that allows you to move build process from your local machine to some remote one.

Makes it easy to create a beautiful about screen for your app.

Fully customizable implementation of "Snowfall View" on Android

Nice and simple customizable implementation of Google style up/down expand arrow.

RxAnimations is a Rx library with the main goal to make android animations more solid and cohesive.

News

jetBrains announced the release of Kotlin 1.0.6. This version brings a significant number of improvements related to the IDE plugin and Android support.

Videos & Podcasts

Both inside and outside of JetBrains, there are people deploying Kotlin applications for the Android platform, web applications, and just about any other type of application.

Events

The most community-driven Android conference is happening for the first time in Boston - April 10-11, 2017. Submit your presentation proposals before Jan. 12th.