Articles & Tutorials

Another approach to offline storage and sync by Yonatan V. Levin.

Designing APIs is hard. One technique that helps develop good ones is to tell a story with the code.

Here's a look at all the features RxJava 2 provides for testing.

Dan Lew continues to describe how the Trello app implements offline caching and synchronization via deltas.

In this blog post Hannes Dorfmann discusses how to build independent UI components and clarify why Parent-Child relations are a code smell. Furthermore, he discusses why such relations are needless.

The Philosophicak Hacker wrote up a blog post of some helpful resources about testing on Android.

Here's Moyinoluwa Adeyemi's introduction to the new FlexBoxLayout from Google.

With this technique by Dmytro Danylyk, you can configure your version name and code via git tags.

First of series of posts about and R&D (Research & Development) project Mariusz Brona made.

Some guidelines that will help improve your Model View Presenter implementations.

Whether you’re new to RxJava, or have used it for a while, there’s always something new to learn. While using the framework, Jag Saund learned 5 not so obvious things about RxJava 1.2 that helped me maximize its potential

Christopher Arriola shares an in-depth look at using RxJava for modelling standard application operations.

Mark Allison starts a new series on using JUnit 5 for Android testing.

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Libraries & Code

FastHub is yet another open source GitHub client app but unlike any other app, FastHub built from ground up.

A plugin that formats your code using googe-java-format.

Nougat introduced vast improvements to the Html class for converting HTML to spannables. Unfortunately these new features are missing for older Android versions. HtmlCompat attempts to address this problem by providing developers with a compatibility library.

News

Android Studio 2.3 is available to download today. The focus for this release is quality improvements across the IDE.

Now Kotlin can be used with JavaScript, and gains coroutines.