Articles & Tutorials

Rafael Toledo is starting an up-to-date introductory series on Android Development. This first article introduces setting up your computer.

Kaiser shares a step by step guide on how to set it up with Android Things.

Rafael Toledo continues his introductory series by introducing how to create new projects and emulators.

Péter Ekler takes a look at some lesser known APIs in the Android SDK.

Anshul Jain shows how to avoid dependency conflicts in your Gradle builds.

This Article covers Android Looper, Handler, and HandlerThread. These are among the building blocks of Android OS.

Daniele Bonaldo shows how to support both Android Wear 1.x and 2.0 application deploys via two different mechanisms.

Mark Allison uses a Raspberry Pi 3 with a Pimoroni Rainbow HAT and focuses on the software side of things and explore how Android Things differs from regular Android.

A remarkable number of developers go to Stack Overflow to ask about how to show a PDF… without using a third-party PDF viewer app. Mark Murphy tells us how.

Danny Preussler shares some tips for writing clean tests. First tip, give your tests a descriptive name.

The more that the Philosophical Hacker learns about testing, the more suspicious of Roboletric he gets!

The next generation of RxJava is out. Should you immediately start migrating or should you wait and pick up something from your project’s backlog instead?

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Fully justified text (justification), automatic hyphenation, flow around images and decomposition of formatted text to pages (pagination) for Android-applications.

Design

Designers need a way to define and see how designs looks on all screen sizes, not just a single device. This plugin supports creating layouts from phone to tablet, Android, iOS & web.

Chris O’Sullivan shares a nice side-by-side comparison of the latest UI elements in both Android & iOS.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Flow(less) gives names to your Activity's UI states, navigates between them, and remembers where it's been.

Android library for async data loading from multiple sources

News

Robolectric 3.2 was released with updated SDK support.

Ever wanted to download adb or fastboot without having to download the whole of Android Studio? Now you can.

Videos & Podcasts

While in London, Huyen sits down with David González, Google Developer Expert and Android engineer for HelpScout, and has a fun chat about how to structure your process when you are working "remote and lonely".

Nicolas Roard developed ConstraintLayout and now works on the Android Studio layout editor. Here's his presentation introducing what it can do.

In this video you’ll learn how to read RxJava Marble diagrams. This video will deconstruct a basic marble diagram and then go through marble diagrams for Map, Filter & Zip.

Specials

Enrique López Mañas ran several Android developer polls on twitter. Here are the results.