Articles & Tutorials

How do we make our library code Lifecycle aware? Nishant Srivastava demonstrates Lifecycle Arch Components that can track the lifecycle of an activity or fragment, and adjust their behavior accordingly.

Moshi is a neat little library that handle mapping between JSON and Java objects. In this tutorial by Emma Guy you'll learn how to create a custom type adapter that helps you to map enums.

The NY Times Android team introduces Register, an Android library and app for testing Play Store billing.

Rebecca Franks aims to cover some of the new features in ConstraintLayout, namely Guidelines, Barriers, Chains and Groups.

Escape from database hell by creating a Repository layer in the application using Room and Dagger 2.

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Radoslav Yankov compares the newly announced Room Persistence Library, the age-old Realm, and the lesser known ObjectBox, which recently came out of beta.

Ishan Khanna shares an Android Studio tip for launching your app more quickly for scenarios where you don't need to recompile every time.

In this short series, Mark Allison takes a look into some techniques which can enormously assist in making your Kotlin classes testable.

The second part by Joe Birch on how to build a Guitar Chord Tutor with Google Actions. You'll learn how to return Rich Responses for a better on screen experience.

Anko is a library that generally make Android Development easier. This blog post deals with the part of Anko that makes programming SQLite queries way more delightful.

A new post in the ‘From design to Android’ series, where Saul Molinero picks a design concept and I implements it on Android.

Design

Updated Material Style guidelines for icons.

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Libraries & Code

Rx binding of stock Android Activities & Fragment Lifecycle, avoiding memory leaks.

Pleasant Android application development.

Android Library and App for testing Play Store billing

A modern JSON library for Android and Java.

News

Google announced the official release of the Play Billing Library which simplifies the development process for Google Play Billing, allowing you to focus your efforts on your app.

jetBrains announced the release of Kotlin 1.1.50, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1.

Videos & Podcasts

In this talk, Chuck Greb explores how Architecture Components can be leveraged in an app already using clean architecture principles to help make your code even more flexible, maintainable, and testable.

In this episode, Florina Muntenescu returns to talk to us about Google’s recently announced paging library

With the migration to OpenJDK instead to Apache Harmony, Android is having a gradual injection to Java 8 features. This talk is focused on exploring Java 8 features added on Android, how to implement them, and which benefits we can obtain to use them.

Live streamed from GDG Boulder

Google Play Billing Library 1.0 has been released to simplify billing, allowing you to focus your efforts on implementing logic specific to your app