Articles & Tutorials

In this second part of the series, the sample app is given some material design touches.

The first article covered the main idea on how predictive animations run in RecyclerView. There is actually a lot more going on to achieve this simplicity (for the LayoutManager). Here are some important points that you should know about.

In this concluding article, Mark Allison creates some mini actions which will be shown and hidden depending on the state of the FAB itself.

Material guidelines state that Menus are positioned over their emitting elements. Here's an example of how to do this with PopupMenu on Lollipop.

Ben Wilcock is sharing his experiences with Robolectric, Rodotium in Android Studio and Gradle and introduces his github project android-alltest-gradle-sample for best breed Android Testing tools together with Gradle and Android Studio in one project.

Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) offers a fresh perspective on solving modern programming problems. Once understood, it can greatly simplify your project.

The author found several excellent libraries that help facilitate a test-driven workflow on Android, and a test culture that is rapidly adopting the use of automated testing.

In this final installment of EventBus series the author discusses how Green Robot's EventBus can be used to more simply handle asynchronous tasks running across multiple threads.

In this third part, Dave Smith will focus on properly supporting animations in your fancy new LayoutManager.

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Libraries & Code

A better looking implementation of android's CalendarView.

A combined DatePicker and TimePicker in a DialogFragment for Android.

A light-weight application framework for Android.

News

In Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google has the ability to update WebView independently of the Android platform. Beginning today, developers can use a new beta channel to test the latest version of WebView and provide feedback.

Two months ago Google rolled out Android Studio, their brand new IDE for Android developers. Meet Tor Norbye, one of the Googlers behind it.

Videos

Lisa Neigut at DroidCon NYC 2014

Kevin Schultz at DroidCon NYC 2014