Articles & Tutorials

From part 1, you’ve learned that the tools namespace can be used to override any attribute at design-time only, and that it can help us helping Lint. This part looks at a few other things that the tools attributes can do for you as well.

Professional automated testing software is a solution to a common problem: how to produce high-quality, robust and reliable software with the ever-growing complexity of technology and under massive competitive pressure.

Keeping News Feed working well in Facebook's Android app presents a variety of engineering challenges starting with performance considerations for touch screens.

There is isn't a Floating Action Button control baked in to Android, so in this series Mark Allison looks at how to implement it while conforming to the Material guidelines.

Jake Wharton has been watching and playing with Kotlin for about two years now. Here he shares a document about its viability for Android development.

In this first article in a three part series there's an introduction to what event-driven programming is, and how it can apply to Android development.

Android supports various states for colors and drawables to change what's displayed based on if user is pressing down on that view. This post takes that a step further and shows how to implement custom drawable states.

In this post the author continues his Material Instagram app, showing how to include a navigation drawer.

The preferred way of handling animations is to use Animator classes whenever possible. This article takes a closer look at this generic class and more advanced Animator use.

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Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Butter Knife-esque view binding for Kotlin.

ExceptionWear is very simple library to solve problem of not passing exceptions from Android Wear devices to the phone.

Android Transformer is Java library to manage your object transformations between your POJO objects.

Specials

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