Articles & Tutorials

Localize Your Promotional Graphics on Google Play (android-developers.blogspot.com)
To help you capitalize on the growing international audience on Google Play, it’s now even easier to market your apps to users around the world, by adding images and a video URL to your store listing for each of Google Play’s 49 languages, just as you’ve been able to add localized text.

Android AutoValue (github.com)
Port of Google AutoValue for the Android platform.

Storing A Pojo Into Shared Preferences (engineering.meetme.com)
A quick article on using GSON to store more complex objects in SharedPreferences.

Protip: Inflating layout for your custom view (trickyandroid.com)
A short tip on merging and flattening layouts

GlassGif - Notes for a live coding session using the GDK (www.recursiverobot.com)
This article is is a guide to building a GDK (Glass Developer Kit) app. The code that will be discussed here is mostly UI, building the Activity and Fragments.

WebView Explorations (stefanodacchille.github.io)
Stefano Dacchille has written a nice post explaining some subtle API differences when working with WebViews.

The Ultimate Android Camera Development Guide (www.airpair.com)
This is a 5-part article series and associated project which explore the basics of Android Studio camera development using Fragments and List Fragments.

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Libraries & Code

Android Gif Drawable (github.com)
Views and Drawable for animated GIFs in Android

Snippet: align a TextView around an image (gmariotti.blogspot.com)
Here's a short article on using Spans to wrap text around an ImageView

Discreet App Rate (github.com)
A lightweight non intrusive app rate reminder for Android.

SpritzerTextView (github.com)
Spritz is a hot speed reading technique. SpritzerTextView displays arbitrary text in exactly that way.

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