Articles & Tutorials

Linton Ye shares what he's learned about transitions in Lollipop.

The author starts showing a first step in a continuous deliver pipeline: the build server.

The authoer sets out to bring choice modes and contextual action modes to the RecyclerView

Dan Lew shares a quick fix for a common issue you may run into on Lollipop devices.

A content transition determines how the non-shared views—called transitioning views—enter or exit the scene during an Activity or Fragment transition. This article takes a closer look at how that happens.

Here's a presentation that takes a closer look at the contents of the Android Open Source Project.

In this concluding article in this series Mark Allison turns his attention to Activity transitions which are an important part of material design as they provide a smooth visual transition between different parts of the app

Design

Here's a nice design tool that lets you choose two colors and view them as a material design preview

The designers at five made four different types of material animations, and determined some rules for each material. In the tradition of Android, they named the materials by candy names – Bubble Gum, Marshmallow, Jawbreaker and Jelly – each one had a distinct behavior that reflected the name

Material Design for Android Developers by Mike Wolfson

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Libraries & Code

This project is a code generator written in Java used to generate Android code. Given a JSON definition file, it will generate the corresponding Parcelable class.

Given a database schema JSON definition file, it will generate all the code you need to add the corresponding ContentProvider in your project.

Parser is the fastest JSON-to-Model object parser that uses annotation processing to generate the parsing for you. It only uses reflection one time and parsing is as fast as writing the code yourself.

This project demonstrate how to setup an Android Project with Kotlin and Dagger 2.

Tools

Robojava is a Gradle plugin that allows simple integration of Robolectric into Android Studio.

Cloud Tools for Android Studio puts the power of Google App Engine in the same IDE alongside of your mobile client, giving you all the same Java language tools for both sides of your app, as well as making it far easier for you to keep them in sync as each of them changes.

Android Studio/IntelliJ plugin to translate all your strings in your string resources (e.g. strings.xml) to your target languages automatically. Helps developers localize their Android app easily, with just one click.

Videos

The Novoda team explains how they build clickable, native prototypes using paper wireframing to test their designs, get feedback faster, rapidly iterate, and save time.

Tenghui Zhu presents the VectorDrawable and AnimatedVectorDrawable APIs in Android L, which can provide an easy and compact way to represent the drawables