Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Lucas Urbas showcases a classic design pattern – Master/Detail. He goes from Material design mockups to the actual code needed.

Rafael Toledo continues his introductory series, This post is about the res folder, found in path app/src/main/res.

Android Developer Advocate Wojtek Kaliciński shares some tips & tricks to keeping track of your APK file size.

Continuous integration with CircleCI and UI testing with Firebase.

Xavi Rigau takes a look at what it takes to write a new peripherals driver for Android Things.

In this blog post Hannes Dorfmann continues the journey towards “Reactive Apps” by introducing the Model-View-Intent pattern to build Reactive Apps.

Mark Allison turns attention towards creating the weather station app by looking at how to display the temperature using the Four 14-segment alphanumeric displays on the Rainbow HAT.

Before making a decision to split code base by feature, or by layer to possibly improve build times, Nikita Kozlov decided to experiment and collect some data and share the results.

In this post, the Philosophical Hacker highlights some Android-specific code seams that we can leverage to make our applications more testable and flexible.

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Libraries & Code

A collection of useful RxJava 2.X classes

The usual toast, but with added capabilities 💪

Unofficial Google Actions Java SDK - for Android engineers and all Java lovers

News

Fabric is moving to Google, into the Firebase product.

Tools

ntelliJ/AndroidStudio plugin which provides a button to connect your Android device over WiFi to install, run and debug your applications without a USB connected.

Roman Nurik has released a major update to his Android Asset Studio tool.

This post is about working with code that lives in many separate code repositories, while still being productive and efficient in the process!

Videos & Podcasts

Game developer Peaklabs and audio platform SoundCloud, presented on Playtime 2016's stage their own best practices for growth, which you might find helpful.

In this episode Donn and Kaushik have an honest discussion about Realm (a client side database).

Specials

One of the biggest challenges during the software development process isn't technical, but rather social. There will be people lined up to tell you how wrong you are and as a result; how you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you, that you are!

Alberto Grande wrote a list of the 100 newsletters developers and designers should have an eye on.

Events

The most community-driven Android conference is happening for the first time in Boston - April 10-11, 2017 @Calderwood Pavilion - 527 Tremont St. Keynote speakers are the amazing Annyce Davis and Chiu-Ki Chan.

Check our conferences list for Android development events! If an event you know didn't made it yet, just submit the link to it through our events submit form here: http://androidweekly.net/#submit-link