Articles & Tutorials

A look at Constraint layouts and applying animations.

Fernando Cejas helps you get into the pragmatic Kotlin language by carefully introducing it into your unit & UI tests.

Sergii Zhuk introduces an RxJava coding challenge to help learn some of the intricacies of Rx programming.

An article describing the use of Square's "coordinators" library.

Kamil Krzyk introduces a new Slack bot written in Java to help keep track of Google Play reviews and respond to them as soon as they are posted.

Recently Josias Sena worked on a project where he had to test a Service, and he shares how to do so easily.

Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, and allows native apps to use animations as easily as they use static assets.

In this blog post, Rebecca Franks wrote about how to build a distributed piano with Android Things, a Piezo Speaker and Google’s Nearby API.

Mark Allison revisits his Something O’Clock wear app and looks at what changes he needs to make in preparation for Wear 2.0.

Enrique López Mañas shares some thoughts on mutability & immutability in a Java world, and why it is important.

Egor Andreevici demonstrates when to use the Gradle plugin resConfigs setting

StrictMode is a developer tool which detects things you might be doing by accident and brings them to your attention so you can fix them.

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Libraries & Code

This library allows to use Material steppers inside Android applications.

Google opens up the support libraries to bug fixes, fixes for spelling errors and updating documentation.

This is an Android specific distribution of the latest versions of SQLite. It contains the latest SQLite version and the Android specific database APIs derived from AOSP packaged as an AAR library distributed on jcenter.

Bot for reporting Google Play Reviews on Slack with possibility to fast reply and creating Jira issues from low rating reviews.

A RecyclerView extension for building list more easily

News

jetbrains announces the second beta of Kotlin 1.1

Videos & Podcasts

Google introduces the Associate Android Developer (AAD) Certification by Google. The AAD Certification is intended for developers who can display typical skills of an entry-level Android developer.

Google Play Store’s A/B testing feature for your app’s listing is a very powerful feature: it allows you to test out various versions of your listing to see what plays well with your audience

Events

Super early bird tickets for are on sale for the first Droidcon in Boston - April 10-11, 2017 @Calderwood Pavilion

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