Articles & Tutorials

This articles shows in code how to recreate the side menu similar to what is in the hello sms app.

Erik Hellman delves into one of the most severe issues for Android app developers today -- the dreaded 64k method reference limit that exists in the DEX file format.

An article about an annotation processor for removing Fragment arguments boilerplate code.

Instagram Engineering spent the last year reimagining and redesigning their Android app to work better for users, no matter what phones they use or where they are located.

Google Play services 6.1 adds Enhanced Ecommerce analytics support from Google Tag Manager and offers new improvements to the Google Drive Android API. The latest release also includes a refresh of the Google Fit developer preview, so that you can test your fitness apps on any Android device.

RequestHandler is a new public class that can be subclassed by Picasso users to extend the library with custom image loading logic.

RxJava is the new hotness amongst Android developers these days. The only problem is that it can be difficult to approach initially. The goal of this three-part series is to get your foot in the door. Dan Lew just want you to become interested in RxJava and how it works.

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Design

A post on the official Android Developers Blog about how to integrate messaging for Android Wear with your application. If your app has notifications the system does the heavy lifting for you - but it's very interesting to add custom actions or even custom layouts.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

This is a repository with real-world useful examples of using RxJava with Android. It usually will be in a constant state of "Work in Progress"

Tools

There is a big gap in terms of development tools for tracking layout traversals and figuring out how your layouts actually behave. This is why Lucas Rocha created Probe.

Tired of Photoshopping out notifications/low battery to make a nice, clean status bar for the Play Store? Run this app first - it draws over your status bar, showing only a full battery and clock.

This is the second roundup of Android Studio Daily Tips by Philippe Breault.

The Android tools team released Android Studio 0.8.11 to the canary channel, with the numerous improvements, including support for the latest Gradle Android build plugin.

Some new features include: provide a manifest for test apps, manifest files in Library project can now include placeholders, manifest placeholder can now be setup on Product Flavors and Build Types, and a whole lot more.

As of version 19.1 of the Android support library, there is a new annotations package which includes a number of useful metadata annotations you can decorate your own code with, to help catch bugs.

Videos

Dave Smith walks you through the process of building custom Views and ViewGroups on Android.

Specials

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Events

We're collecting all bigger Android Development Conferences for you on our conferences list. Sometimes we also have coupon codes to give you a discount on a conference ticket price.