Articles & Tutorials

Lot's of new code samples in Android Studio 1.0. Ranging from how to implement a message service til how to use the Leanback library for Android TV.

Introduced alongside KitKat and enhanced with the Lollipop release of the v4 Android support library, a working implementation of the Swipe to Refresh UI pattern is included, called SwipeRefreshLayout.

Paul shares a useful technique for simple updates to hierarchies of custom views.

Mark Allison continues with the transition to RecyclerView and the drag & drop reordering implementation.

In this part, Mark Allison show an example of how the RecyclerView offers simpler customization over ListViews.

Here are four simple steps to follow to enable deep linking into your app from Google search results.

This second article will show a few key aspects that you need to consider if you want to build a custom UI for your TV application.

With Google Play services version 6.5 or later, it is possible for you to include Google Play services in your application using a number of smaller client libraries.

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Libraries & Code

Gilt Senior Software Engineer Kevin Schultz has just released android-proguard-snippets: Sample ProGuard configurations for common Android libraries.

Chris Banes shares an implementation of a collapsing toolbar.

News

Android Studio 1.0 is out. It's been quite a ride since it was first released to the public one year ago. Grab it while it's hot!

Google announces that the official Android Wear Watch Face API

Tools

Google introduces new toolchain for Android that’s designed to improve build times and simplify development by reducing dependencies on other tools.

JSON To Java as a Service (JTJaaS) is intended to lighten the burden of java developers who need to create POJOs to parallel a JSON API

Videos

Timothy Jordan introduces the Watch Face API for Android Wear

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