Articles & Tutorials

See some of the practices that a beginner or an intermediate (if missed any) level developer should know in order to get better out of the Android framework.

Christian Dehning shares a couple tips on how to get your app closer to crash-free.

Google has released the source code for the official Google I/O 2017 for Android app.

In the previous article in this series, you learned about nullability, loops, and conditions in Kotlin. In this tutorial, we'll continue to learn the language by looking at the ranges and collections API in Kotlin.

Brais Gabín Moreira introduces a new FragmentTestRule for Espresso tests.

Previously Mark Allison discussed the various APIs available to use to simplify date and time handling, so let’s dive in and see how they work.

Simon Joecks shows how LiveData and ViewModel can be used to create a scalable application for real life requirements.

In this post, Sergey Grekov shows how to implement The Elm Architecture in Android, how to use it in presenters and how to test it.

The Flutter mobile app SDK is a new way to build fast, beautiful mobile apps that helps developers break away from “cookie cutter” apps that have been so common in the past.

There are a few design considerations in relation to navigation, notifications, the complications API, and the standalone functionality to help you better optimize for Wear 2.0 devices

To make input validation a little less verbose, Kotlin provides a set of utility functions. Egor Andreevici dives in to see how they work.

New to Android TV? Curious about the new changes with the 26.0.0 support library? In this series of articles, Benjamin Baxter looks into different components.

There is a notable performance benefit to using ConstraintLayout. This post walks through how you can benefit from these performance improvements.

John Petitto writes about using his validator library to be used with TextInputLayout from the Support Design library.

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Libraries & Code

Voice Record Button that has ripple effect with users voice.

JUnit Rule to test a Fragment in isolation

The Google I/O 2017 Android App

An OkHttp interceptor which logs request and response data in a pretty way.

This is a list of all awesome and useful android studio plugins. This repo will be updated regularly for new entries.

Get easy error validation by swapping out TextInputLayout with ValidatingTextInputLayout

Business

This is a highly reflective article written by an independent Android developer who didn’t make it. It is zero motivational bs. — only cold hard truth. You have been warned.

Videos & Podcasts

Android Oreo is available to consumers. Here's a summary of what you need to know to make sure that these early adopters have a great experience, along with ways to enhance that experience with new O features and the support library.

Join Google Developers Experts and guest speakers Moyinoluwa Ademi and Segun Famisa as they take us through the Kotlin programming language and what it offers for android developers.

Huyen asks Mallika Potter, Android developer at Pinterest, about her process for bringing accessibility to Android apps.

Huyen talks to Jonathan Maltz, developer at Yelp, about mentoring other developers, especially new hires: why mentoring is important, how to get started, and some basics of being a good mentor.