Articles & Tutorials

In part 4 Mike Scamell looks at implementing shared element transitions with RecyclerView.

Since writing his post about how to use FileProvider to add compatibility with Nougat, Lorenzo Quiroli discovered some issues happening in older versions and shares how to fix them.

This series of posts is about the connection between the testability of android-centric architecture and the other problems that are now leading Android developers to reject it.

Physical buttons are nice, but sometimes, you may want to include capacitive buttons instead in your Android Things projects.

Google open sourced FlexboxLayout to bring the same functionalities of the CSS Flexible Layout module to Android. Here are some cases where FlexboxLayout is particularly effective.

As Valentin Hinov got more comfortable with Rx, he noticed that a lot of use cases for RxJava follow the same pattern in their setup and finish logic. He shares a technique for reusing some of the common logic.

Sergey Solovyev shows some alternative ways to implement In-App Billing in your Android app.

Manuel Vicente Vivo shares an example of how to use the new CompositeAndroid library for composing your activities from extensible objects.

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Libraries & Code

Shape Shifter is a web-app that simplifies the process of creating SVG-based path morphing animations.

Shuttle is an open source, local music player for Android

Fluent API wrapper for Android Espresso ☕️

Fragment navigator is a simple way to navigate between fragments.

FlexboxLayout is a library project which brings the similar capabilities of CSS Flexible Box Layout Module to Android

This is small library that provides Kotlin Coroutines suspending extension Call.await() for Retrofit 2

StatefulLayout by Gökhan Türedi is a layout to show most common state templates like loading, empty, error. All you need to do is to wrap the target view with StatefulLayout.

News

After months of intensive development, Google has announced the 1.0 release of the ConstraintLayout library.

Support Library v25.2.0 is now available with numerous bug fixes.

The Android Tools team is releasing an early preview of Android Gradle plugin 2.5, which aims to address performance issues of large Android projects.

Dagger 2.10-rc1 release adds dagger.android classes to simplify injection of Android core types

Videos & Podcasts

How do we use lambdas, streams, and Rx effectively on Android? What about orientation changes and background tasks? Stop worrying about the lifecycle, and cache your way into a blissful user experience.

Jono Poltrack shares his experience updating watch faces to Android Wear 2.0.

It’s almost a given these days that most phones will have Fingerprint APIs. Ben Oberkfell breaks it down for us in great detail. Listen on!

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Gregory Kick from the Java Core Libraries team at Google about Dagger, as well as Auto, AutoValue and Guava.