Articles & Tutorials

The focus of this post is to help you put some polish on your design, and move closer to the Google Material design guidelines. The best part: none of these tips will require a designer or new assets.

This post reviews four strategies for Android UI testing with the goal of creating UI tests that are fast, reliable, and easy to debug

This concluding article in this series shows how to add touch and scrolling behaviours.

In this article the author discusses styling the navigation drawer control similar to Google apps.

Blur effect can be used to vividly convey a sense of layering of content. It allows the user to maintain the context, while focused on the currently featured content, even if what’s under the blurring surface shifts in a parallax fashion or changes dynamically

When building Android applications or libraries common practice is to save your artifacts to a local file storage or repo. Wiebe Elsinga shows you how to do this with Gradle.

Because putting Maps in a Bundle is harder than it looks.

So you're curious about this new thing called Reactive Programming, particularly its variant comprising of Rx, Bacon.js, RAC, and others.

This post continues Alex Lockwood's in-depth analysis of shared element transitions by discussing an important feature of the Lollipop Transition API: postponed shared element transitions.

Recently the author needed to write a test case that performed an operation several times, but with different test data. It turns out Robolectric has a ParameterizedRobolectricTestRunner,

The Places APIs for Android (and iOS) bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude, and how people associate location with a known place.

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Libraries & Code

Jackdaw is a Java Annotation Processor which allows to simplify Java/Android development and prevents writing of tedious code. Jackdaw was inspired by Lombok project, but in comparison with Lombok: it does not need to have an extra plugin in IDE and it does not modify the existing source code.

This is a collection of Android Apps with Open Source.

News

Google is introducing a new age-based rating system for apps and games on Google Play. They have also begun reviewing apps before they are published on Google Play to better protect the community and improve the app catalog.

Tools

With this Gradle plugin, you can define source folders for SVGs and they will automatically be rasterized/included in your build without messing with your source code.

Videos

An introduction to Groovy, Gradle and the Android plugin by Daniel Lew.

Specials

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