Articles & Tutorials

VisionMobile has just launched their latest Developer Economics survey and is tracking developer trends across platforms, app revenues and dev tools - as well as investigating the emerging IoT market. The key findings from the survey will become available in the form of a free research report in February.

An interesting article about what happens when Google removes your app (because of a policy violation).

Another Palette in action blog post by Mark Allison.

A 6 part mini series about use of Fragments in Android apps.

Official blog post on how to get your apps ready for the new Android devices.

An explainatory post by Antonio Leiva on how to use the new Android Compat library.

Good news for all hybrid app developers. The WebView is now unbundled from Android and can be automatically updated from the Google Play store.

In this post on Google+ by Ian Lake he explains how to get around the DEX limit by using MultiDex support. But he notes that you should try Proguard before going down the MultiDex rabbit hole.

A very sleek progress bar that also shows a percentage number.

Android Lollipop introduced a lot of sweet new classes. In this post you'll lean how to use AnimatedVectorDrawable.

In this post by David Gonzales you'll learn how to build applications for Android TV. He'll walk you though the subtle differences comparing to developing a smartphone or tablet app.

A few slides by Andy Dyer about which libraries (like Dagger and Mockito) to use for test automation.

In this post by Andy Dyer you'll learn how to prepare some code on Github to be easily included via gradle.

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Libraries & Code

Tried the Android Lollipop SDK? You may have noticed that Palette's API has been updated. As before, Palette allows you to extract colors from images for use in your UI.

TaggerString is very light library which allows to build dynamic string resource in much more readable way.

Android library that integrate sticky section headers in your RecyclerView.

A lot of peeps were asking so Chris Banes explains on StackOverflow.

Gradle plugin to add more placeholders to your manifest.xml.

An efficient adapter to make the use of RecyclerView much easier for Android.

A short little gist by Chris Banes that implements the float label UI pattern.

This is the complete version of the Twitter client that Luke Klinker created for Android. It is 100% open source, the only thing that you will have to do plug in is your own API keys. If you want to see a well structured app in action then check it out.

News

The official blog post about Android Lollipop.

Tools

Do you have the feeling that your fingers and keystrokes are limiting your developing speed? Then check out these templates for Android Studio - they'll make you blazing fast.

Videos

Reto Meier, Timothy Jordan, and Chet Haase give the opening keynote address at the 5th Anniversary of the Big Android BBQ at the Hurst Conference Center in the Dallas / Ft. Worth Metroplex.

Matthias Käppler presenting SoundClouds architecture.