Articles & Tutorials

Artem Kholodnyi implements a whole UI example using RxJava & RxAndroid.

Danny Preussler continues his series on clean tests, now analyzing if it makes sense to use given/when/then or arrange/act/assert comments in the code.

Janishar Ali studies when and how a dependency class is instantiated in Dagger 2. He also takes into account the scenarios that may produce unexpected results.

Lukas Lechner discovers that many rules from Effective Java do not apply to Kotlin.

In this second post about Flutter we are just about to see the easiness and the tools this framework provides to create Material Design based applications.

Now that you know how to get started with Android Things from previous articles, it’s time for us to blink our first LED.

A list of useful Android Studio shortcuts

Hannes Dorfmann revisits the MVx implementations he's described in the past and shares updates based on what he's learned. This article focuses on the Model.

In November 2015 Amy Simmons interviewed junior web developers to find out how they could be better supported in the workplace. This website outlines her findings.

Łukasz Izmajłowicz shares some ideas about database & SQLite testing.

Daniele Bonaldo shows how to make your app’s data available directly from a wearable watch face, allowing the user to access it at a glance.

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Design

How to incorporate hidden gestures? There are number of visual interaction design techniques for making them known.

Libraries & Code

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Google launcher-style implementation of switch (enable/disable) icon

A little web app that helps you copy+paste syntax-highlighted code into slide decks

Widget to show contributions, stars, followers, trending etc. from Github.

News

Play Store and More. Google has launched the third developer preview of Android Wear 2.0 with a big new addition: Google Play on Android Wear.

Android Studio 2.3 Beta 2 includes a several updates, bug fixes, and performance improvements.

New SDK Tools, Revision 25.2.5 available

Videos & Podcasts

How would you like a screen that doesn’t get destroyed on rotation, and a navigation that’s as simple as calling goTo(screen)? That’s what modern Android development should look like.

Uber Engineer Gautam talks about the Uber Android app, the complexity in the architecture, the scaling challenges, the pain points Android developers faced working on such a massive app.

Part 2 of the Buck episode

This first episode of Talking Kotlin introduces Andrey Breslav, team lead and father of Kotlin.

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz presented an intro to Firebase at the GDG Boulder meetup.

Events

In the process of rapidly releasing Downloads, Netflix migrated to a new video codec, changed the DRM mechanism, iterated through UX designs with customers, integrated a new Android media player, and even released it with an A/B test. They're excited to talk about the challenges and opportunities that their Android team faced while building this well received experience. Attendance by RSVP only please.