Articles & Tutorials

It’s no secret to anyone, APKs out there are getting bigger and bigger. Cyril Mottier shares some tips and tricks to making slimmer apps.

Beacon Patterns is a simple application that contains basic programming patterns about iBeacons which will allow you to create your iBeacon application even faster. This article describes some of these patterns in detail.

Ryan Harter demonstrates how to create a scroll view has padding such that every item within it can be scrolled to the center of the view. On it’s surface this doesn’t seem complex, but when you consider the massive difference in screen sizes available on Android, things get a little more complicated.

At Google I/O the general availability of several GCM capabilities was announced, including the GCM Cloud Connection Server, User Notifications, and a new API called Delivery Receipt. This post highlights the new features and how you can use them in your apps.

In the previous article Mark Allison looked at some of the decisions behind re-writing the Footy Timer app in order to implement it on Android Wear. In this article he’ll begin looking at the code.

Google introduced the full Android Wear SDK and now developers can finally start building awesome smartwatch applications. Want to learn how to make your existing apps work with Android Wear?

Among many other new features, Android L has brought a slew of new animations that can be added to your apps. This post goes over some of those new animations and how to implement them into an app.

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Design

This guide is designed as a "get started" or introductory read for the starting to intermediate designer who wants to learn or get more knowledge about cross-DPI and cross-platform design from the very beginning.

Adobe After Effect is still the best tool to create complex and awesome animations, but with Photoshop, you can still create some simple and high quality UI animations to preview the animation idea to others. Taylor Ling show us how.

For those of you who are using Sketch App instead of Adobe Illustrator, Vincent Tantardini re-created the latest Google wireframes for both Mobile and Tablet. Metrics and keylines are integrated. Hope this will help you save some time on your upcoming projects.

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Libraries & Code

A library that reveals controls with a swipe gesture. Can be easily integrated in anywhere, ListView, GridView, ViewGroup.

Extension to the Volley library adding an easy to use wrapper around Volley that sets up the RequestQueue and Image cache for the ImageLoader. It also provides an easy Picasso inspired image loading system based on the ImageLoader.

This new library has a Ripple View base class for adding to your project.

QuickReturn is a library which showcases the QuickReturn UI pattern. It can be used for header views, footer views, or both header views and footer views. Supports both ScrollView and ListView and comes with examples of Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ QuickReturn views.

Tired of manually setting the typefaces of all your views and cluttering your logic with presentation code? Foundry lets you style the typefaces of your views in your XML layout files and styles.

Here's a Gist from Chris Banes and Roman Nurik to help with dealing with Android System UI visibility across the different API levels.

Tools

A simple boilerplate code generator for Android Fragments

Business

There were a lot of technical and design-related hurdles to overcome in order to meet Google’s standards for a featured app. This post highlights some of the most important requirements encountered in the process, and hopefully make your next featuring process more seamless.