Articles & Tutorials

Here's a nice approach to showing Loading / Content / Error messages with RxJava.

Ian Lake digs through the API Diff and finds a number of hidden gems that he's really excited to see.

Warren Smith & Molly Vorwerck describe how they moved the Uber app to immutable collections.

Here's a great approach to avoiding using view null checks in your presenters.

An in-depth look at dependency injection on Android by Joe Howard.

Dan Kim describes the process for porting Basecamp's Android app to Kotlin.

Annyce Davis recently migrated a Gradle Plugin from Groovy to Kotlin. It was essentially a four step process, described here.

Irina Galata describes how she built a physics-based animated menu using OpenGL and JBox2D.

A new Intellij/Android Studio plugin that makes your java code more readable by making a code folding plugin even more powerful than the existing one.

Arun Sasidharan has a nice quick tip for writing Activity navigation methods.

A quick look by Enrique López Mañas at what Firebase's Real Time Database can do for you.

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Libraries & Code

An easy-to-use animation which can be used for content picking for Android

The goal of this project is to provide a hand-picked collection of Android libraries, tools, open-source projects, books, blogs, tutorials - you name it.

Litho is a new UI Framework by Facebook that takes a set of immutable inputs and layouts a UI for you (like React for Java/Android). Vasilis Charalampakis has ported the Picasso library to that new Litho paradigm.

News

Google has released an SDK for Google Assistant.

jetBrains announces the release of Kotlin 1.1.2

Android Studio 2.4 is close to a final release.

Videos & Podcasts

Droidcon Boston 2017 was a blast! Here are all the presentation videos.

While building Calligraphy, Chris Jenx uncovered some interesting aspects of the LayoutInflater and its unknown side effects. He will cover how the LayoutInflater works, and how Calligraphy hacks the lifecycle to inject into views at inflation time.

Wayne Piekarski introduces the Google Assistant SDK. Developers can now have the Google Assistant built-in to any project they are working on, from toys and games, to everyday devices.