Articles & Tutorials

In this post the author continues his Material Instagram app, showing how to include circular reveals.

Mark Allison shows how to animate a VectorDrawable by actually modifying the SVG path data itself.

An article on debugging http API calls.

Chiu-Ki Chan wondered how GMail on tablet implemented the cross-fade of the two side panels for navigation. Here's what she found.

Designer and GDE Taylor Ling interviews a second Android developer.

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Design

Taylor Ling describes a bit of UX torture that appears in a popular Material designed app.

Jobs

If you are: green, approx. 0.53 meters tall and feed upon well-crafted code (or all of the above at least at heart) then we need you!

Join our quest to eradicate the pains of expense reporting! We are looking for self-driven, passionate, and collaborative generalists with a strong Android background to help make the best expense reporting solution out there even better.

LEAD US FORWARD ON ANDROID! You are: Someone who LOVES Android and hates half-hearted iOS ports. We are: the world's #1 project management app, helping over 350,000 companies work on 4,000,000 projects last year alone. We need you to lead the charge for us on Android. Will you join us?

We're Layer and we've embarked on a massive mission to create an open communications Layer for the Internet. Customer demand is already huge, and we need a world-class Android SDK developer to join our team and build services that will touch millions out of the gate.

Mobile ticketing right now is where photo sharing was five years ago (i.e. awful). We're changing that. We’ve come a long way already, but we still have so much more we want to do! Join our team and help us build an Android app that defines sports and music on the platform.

Trello is looking for brilliant developers to help us make our Android app even more awesome. Trello for Android is fully native, minSdkVersion is 15, and we are an Editors' Choice. If you're a RxJava addict with experience making highly interactive applications, come join us!

Notion is a mobile startup looking to hire an experienced Android developer. You will be joining a small and ambitious team who's goal is to change the face of messaging.

Etsy is set on redefining what mobile, person-to-person commerce means for the entire world. We’re a mobile first company that is focused on scaling Android and iOS app development throughout our whole organization. 2015 is going to be a huge year for apps at Etsy. Want to be a part of it?

Libraries & Code

Dan Lew has created an Android specific port of Joda-time, which provides a quality replacement for the Java date and time classes.

Tools

Here's an interesting approach to recording videos of apps with sensitive information without showing anything private.

Videos

In this video Colt McAnlis discusses where VSYNC in UI & graphics rendering comes from, and why it’s critical to understand if you want a silky smooth application.

Hans Dockter and Xavier Ducrohet take us on an in-depth tour of Gradle, the build system designed to elegantly deal with the diversity of the Android ecosystem and meet the demands of modern development practices!

In this presentation video recorded at AnDevCon San Francisco, Dave Smith shows what has changed in Bluetooth LE with the 5.0 release of Android.

Events

It's 2015! There will be some Android developer conferences around the world. Let developers know about it and submit your event to our Android conferences list, for free!