Articles & Tutorials

This will be a series of posts by Saúl Molinero that explains the process to develop an app from the scratch. In this post you'll learn a lot on how to master the ConstraintLayout.

Usually we just hear praise about all things Kotlin. But with coroutines some doubts appear. In this post Matt Dupree explains in depth why he thinkgs that observables are a better tool than coroutines.

In this post by Nishant Srivastava you'll learn about the ups, downs and troubles when writing a library.

In this post by Irina Galata you'll learn how to create a beautiful bubble selection animation. It's a fresh animation concept that combines a lot of techniques like RenderScript (OpenGL) for rendering and JBox2D for physics.

In this post you'll learn how two reduce your networking footprint by leveraging Etags and If-Modified-Since. You'll also see how to do that with the OkHttp library.

In this post the author of ClassyShark Boris Farber explains how he exports type analysis.

In this post by Josias Sena you'll learn how to use the fingerprint sensor the authenticate a user.

In this post Hannes Dorfmann shows you some ninja debugging tricks that will work smoothly with the model-view-intent pattern.

Machine Learning is hot. Machine Learning on Android is even hotter. In this post by Gautier Mechling you'll learn how to integrate TensorFlow into your app and how to train a custom model to detect the content of some images.

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Libraries & Code

Android library to auto-play/pause videos from url in a RecyclerView.

PreferenceHolder is a library that makes SharedPreference usage made fun in Kotlin.

ActivityStarte is an android Library that provide simpler way to start the Activities with multiple arguments leveraging annotations.

Your app blocks? Then BlockCanary or this fork BlockCanaryEx can help you to detect your performance bottlenecks.

Each youngster that starts with OSS on Android releases a SharedPreferences helper. This one is special since it has a fluent interface to store data. There could be some more unit tests.

Videos & Podcasts

In this podcast with Kristin Marsicano you'll learn a lot about the activity lifecycle.