Articles & Tutorials

It's undoubtable that unit tests help to increase your code quality. But writing good unit tests can be a daunting task - especially when a class has many dependencies. With the dependency injection library Toothpick you can reduce this complexity in a very nice way.

Rebecca Franks answers the question about Android Accessibility: "How do I make my app Switch Access compatible?"

In this post, you'll learn how to implement swipe-to-remove and drag-and-drop gestures in Android RecyclerView.

Mirek Stanek shows how to build conversational app for Google Home or Google Assistant

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Amanda Hill thinks Kotlin is super dope and shares a favorite feature of the language - Delegated Properties - and some of the ways to use them.

The Android Plugin for Gradle 3.0.0 is a major upgrade that brings significant performance improvements to large multi-module projects. In order to bring about these improvements, there are some breaking changes in the plugin behavior, DSL, and APIs.

Carlos Lopez explains color spaces and how Oreo brings new color profile capabilities to Android.

Each time Google releases a new developer preview, Mark Murphy rummages through the API differences report and the high-level overviews, to see if there are things that warrant more attention from developers.

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Libraries & Code

Server-Sent Events client for Android and Java applications.

An annotation processor that allows you to read static UTF-8 files synchronously, generated at compile time.

Type-safe time calculations in Kotlin, powered by generics.

News

Android Studio 3.0 is ready to download today. Announced at Google I/O 2017, it is a large update focused on accelerating your app development on Android.

Google is giving us an early look at Android 8.1

Google's Maven Repository is now browseable

Android Studio 3.1 Canary 1 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

Everything new in Google’s latest update

Videos & Podcasts

Android Plugin version 3.0.0 brings many improvements to build times, especially for multi-module projects.

Congratulations to Kaushik & Donn on reaching 100 episodes of their wonderful and quite informative podcast.

Huyen catches up with Joe Birch, Android developer at Buffer and GDE, and asks lots of questions about his experiences with Android Things and building his BrailleBox.

Andrew Kelley presents on ContstraintLayout at Sydney Android meetup.

Android Studio 3.0 brings a ton of new features and improvements, including Kotlin support, Android O APIs, Java 8 language features support, external APK debugging, Instant Apps modules and refactoring, an integrated Android Profiler and more.

A chat with Eugenio from Clue about sharing Kotlin code across multiple platforms and how Kotlin has helped them at Clue.

Presented at Toronto Android Developers

Huyen catches up with Ondrej Ruttkay, Android developer at Automattic, and asks about Aztec, an open source, native rich text editor, built for the Wordpress mobile apps, written almost entirely in Kotlin.