Articles & Tutorials

During our Uber's Technology Day, Aimee Lucido delivered a presentation on the history of Uber Engineering’s Android codebase. In this article, she expands on the reasons behind Uber’s decision to build a monorepo to support the growth of our Android development.

Tancho Markovik shares some Gradle tips to automate the mundane, but important code quality tasks of software development.

Sam Edwards collected the various IDs can be obtained programmatically on Android that can be used to identify a device or installation.

Mark Allison has released ViewPagerAnimator, a lightweight, yet extremely powerful ViewPager animation library.

Everything has a type in Kotlin: objects, functions, nothing itself has a type, and it’s unsurprisingly Nothing.

Caren Chang writes a great overview of everything needed in a Parcelable implementation.

As some of you know, Chiu-Ki Chan one of the organizers for 360|AnDev. It's a lot of work to run a conference, so why does she do it?

14 great shortcuts in Android Studio that'll help you develop even faster.

This project demonstrates how to get a natural language recognizer up and running and connect it to the Google Assistant. Along with everything the Google Assistant already does, you can add your own question and answer pairs. All in a handy little cardboard cube, powered by a Raspberry Pi.

Jake Wharton & the Square team is releasing a series of articles about Kotlin and how they've started using it inside Square.

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Libraries & Code

Litho Glide is a Litho compatible library, which provides an Image Component compatible with Glide. Litho-Glide supports a wide part of Glide's functionality.

Google Assistant API sample for Android Things

News

Android Studio 2.3.2 is now available in the stable channel.

The Advanced Android App Development online course has been updated, improved, and extended to lead you through building a range of sample apps to learn different advanced aspects of app development.

Videos & Podcasts

In part 3 of this 4 part series, Kate writes a JVM test for her pure Java logic class, and adds a resource file to the testing source directory so she can test the parsing logic.

Two presentations from NYC Android Meetup: Practical Networking with RxJava, Stephen D'Amico & Conductor: A Pragmatic Approach to Building Reusable Views, Yousuf Haque

Aimee Lucido, a mobile engineer on Uber's Driver Signups team, spoke about Uber’s transition from a monorepo to multirepo and back again, discussing her team’s experience growing the structure of an Android app at scale

Talking Kotlin speak with Christina Lee about her running across the country, the adoption of Kotlin at Pinterest, her perspectives on Kotlin and finally her love for peanut butter and jelly.

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