Articles & Tutorials

A nifty little code snippet that includes build number in Android APK. Especially when you automating a lot of things it's really awesome to know this number for Q&A.

In this post you'll learn how to implement a REST client using the Retrofit library.

A beginner tutorial about the Android Wear Message API.

Updated your Mac to Yosemite? Having trouble to get your Android Emulator working again? Use this code to make the emulator run smooth again.

In this post you'll learn how to integrate testing as part of your app development. You'll see which parts of testing you can automate and which you have to cover manually.

In his talk Matthias Käppler gave some insights into how he rethought the app architecture from the ground up. He show where the complexity lies in the application and how to use the Reactive Extensions (Rx) to gain the upper hand back on dealing with the representation and composition of asynchronous data flows. He also introduced propeller, a storage library which fits snugly into a reactive architecture.

As soon as Chris Renke saw the transforming, flipping glyph in the Google Photos app, he thought "I can do that." His article describes in detail how he went about recreating the beautiful transformation.

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Design

Juhani Lehtimäki takes a look at how navigation drawers are changing in Google apps and moving towards the Material specifications.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Implementation of Ripple effect from Material Design for Android API 14+

Give your collections (on any View at all) a fancier look by adding a cool way to check elements.

And another Android drawer icon with material design animation.

A simple drawable backport of the new drawer-indicator/back-arrow rotating drawable from the upcoming Android L.

A data-binding Presentation Model (MVVM) framework for the Android platform. RoboBinding helps you write UI code that is easier to read, test and maintain without performance compromise(code generation instead of java reflection).

News

A high-level intro to what Lollipop brings to Android.

Google developer advocate Chris Banes confirms that a backwards compatibility support library is coming for Material themes and controls.

Events

DevFest Berlin 2014 organizers are asking for speakers to sign up. The event will be from Nov 21st to Nov 23rd, 2014.