Articles & Tutorials

The common feature of video applications is to display a video with customized media player controls. This article shares some knowledge and show some ideas around video playing on Android.

This article shows how to use Retrofit together with RxJava and emphasizes the possiblity to combine and chain REST calls using rxObservables to avoid ugly callback chains. It gives you a nice example of using RxJava in order to write less and cleaner code.

This post by Wolfram Rittmeyer gives you an introduction to the RecyclerView, it’s many internal classes and interfaces, how those interact and how you can use them.

Donn Felker discusses how crash data can help you fix the most critical crashes with minimal effort and create happy users and customers for your business.

A presentation from Droidcon Berlin on playing streaming videos with the Android APIs.

This post will put you on the right path to releasing and Android library to bintray (JCenter) or maven.org (MavenCentral). It will show you how you can create a maven compatible release of your Android library project.

This article gives examples of using the new RecyclerView and CardView.

In this concluding article Mark Allison looks at styling ripples defined in the previous articles.

Most of the applications in the Market store credentials (username/password or a hash) in the application to avoid prompting the user continuously asking him for the authentication. Here's one way to encrypt this data.

So, you switched to Gradle and just finished you new shiny Android library (or java library). And of course you want to share it with the community. Here's a quick guide for those who never published their libraries before.

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Libraries & Code

DAVdroid is an open-source CalDAV/CardDAV synchronization app for Android 4+

Android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities

Tools

fb-adb is a tool for interacting with Android systems. It does much of what adb does, but with better remote shell support and, hopefully, fewer bugs.

Videos

Android provides many APIs and capabilities to liven up dull UIs through graphical effects and animations. Come to this session to learn various techniques for making your mobile clients not just rich, but filthy rich.

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