Articles & Tutorials

Following Facebooks mantra "move fast - break things" might work for the web. But poor quality in the PlayStore leaves to one star ratings and these are never going away. One strategy to move fast nonetheless is a staged rollout and in this post by Sebastiano Gottardo you'll learn everything about it.

Starting in Oreo, Autofill makes it easy for users to provide credit cards, logins, addresses, and other information to apps. Here are some tips on getting it working in your apps.

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Here's a great article on using OpenSTF to set up an Android device farm for testing.

Mark Murphy's updates on the latest meaning of "internal storage" on Android.

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Android gained initial support for color management — which helps match color outputs across devices. Here's Nick Butcher's overview of what this means for Android & apps from Oreo onward.

Jeb shares some insight into the various keep directives in ProGuard.

A longer post by Tomasz Rykała on how to build a distributed MIDI Controller with Android Things and Nearby API.

Ahmed looks behind the curtain at the Java compiler's type erasure and how to maintain type information.

The Twitter team discovered that serializing and deserializing data to and from the database using standard Android Externalizable classes was taking around 15% of the UI thread time. Here's how the sped it up (and released it as a new open-source library)

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Libraries & Code

CircleMenu is a simple, elegant UI menu with a circular layout and material design animations.

TV show tracking Android app, which connects to Trakt.tv by Chris Banes.

AutoAdapter simplifies working with RecyclerView Adapter

A wall poster with a detailed changelog of Android SDK versions 14-27, broken down into 30 categories.

IntelliJ IDEA (and Android Studio) plugin for formatting Gradle dependencies.

Light-weight, fast framework for object serialization in Java, with Android support.

News

Google announced the availability of the developer preview of TensorFlow Lite, TensorFlow’s lightweight solution for mobile and embedded devices!

Google announced a set of new features to make it easier for users to find, interact and re-engage with your Google Assistant app.

Videos & Podcasts

Android Developer presentations from Mobilization 2017.

In this episode, Donn & Kaushik talk to Hannes Dorfmann about using the Model View Intent (MVI) pattern for Android

Let’s take a stroll through the landscape of databases on Android, and see where we’re headed.

Videos of all the presentations from KotlinConf 2017

In which Chet and Tor Romain Guy talk with Nicolas Geoffray from the ART team about runtime performance, including various optimizations in the Oreo release.

Android animations can be overwhelming. Get some highlights from Eliza Camberogiannis on physics-based animations, transitions, shared elements and more.