Articles & Tutorials

Bartek Lipinski introduces Cortado , which can greatly reduce the method nesting needed for Espresso, leaving you the code that is more fluent and much easier to read.

In this article, Mihály Nagy introduces Dependency Injection Checks, an Open Source annotation processor that will help you solve some issues that are common to all JSR 330 DI libs.

Here's a list of plugins for Android Studio that will help you be more productive in writing apps.

In this tutorial, Francesco Azzola covers how to implement an Android Things bot to execute tasks.

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Rebecca Franks created a list of links, code labs and reference material that would be useful for any developer that wants to get started in the world of Android development.

Mark Allison continues the series on how to avoid bugs in time-related code.

In this tutorial, Chike Mgbemena continues to teach fundamentals of Kotlin language by looking at nullability, loops, and conditions.

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Joe Birch makes a compelling argument for TDD using Android UI tests.

Konstantin Tskhovrebov demonstrates how the Cicero navigation library can be used with Kotlin.

As Kotlin steadily spreads into the masses more and more Java developers are being exposed to “new” concepts. Algebraic Data Types (ADT for short) is one of these concepts.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Android Week View is an android library to display calendars (week view or day view) within the app. It supports custom styling.

Cicerone is a lightweight library that makes the navigation in an Android app easy. It was designed to be used with the MVP pattern but will work great with any architecture.

Android Espresso made more fluent

DI checks is an annotation processor used to detect common issues when using dependency injection frameworks that use JSR 330 like Toothpick or Dagger. When an issue is found compilation will fail.

News

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.4, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. This update includes initial, experimental support for generating Android Parcelable implementations using the @Parcelize annotation.

Videos & Podcasts

Espresso Test Recorder is a fantastic tool for “breaking the ice” and trying Espresso for the very first time. This lesson will teach you how to use it and create your first Espresso UI test for an Android application.

In this episode of Fragmented, RxJava paragon of the Android – Dan Lew, returns for a record 3 and 1/2 time.

In this episode, Chet and Romain talked with Iliyan Malchev from the Treble project. Treble was introduced in May of this year as an important step toward faster and more frequent release updates on devices.

With ConstraintLayout 1.0 being announced earlier in the year are you wondering if you should dive head first into the world of flat view hierarchies? Join in a discussion lead by Adam Toennis, a developer at Atomic Robot, to answer these questions and more