Articles & Tutorials

An article from Square announcing LeakCanary, an Open Source Java library to detect memory leaks in your debug builds.

Another in-depth look at getting started with the Espresso testing framework.

Google announces the release of Games in Motion, an open source game sample to demonstrate how developers can make fun games using Google Fit and Android Wear.

Kotlin makes Android development much simpler and it continues to improve upon its Android compatibility.

Next article in the series on making your Android app unit testable. This second part gets into how to break down your UI components.

Dirty Phrasebook is an app based upon Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch. In this article in the series, Mark Allison looks at the how Text-To-Speech was implemented in the app.

LinearLayout supports almost all (except for wrapping) features of HTML Flexbox. RelativeLayout works as a constraint solver. These layouts are good enough to start with. But do they perform well when your app has complex UI?

Chiu-Ki Chan shares how you can tell the Espresso testing framework to wait for your application by writing a custom IdlingResource.

As a software engineer, your aim is to automate as many processes as possible. This article puts down in words thoughts about how to efficiently implement CI.

It was only a matter of time before version 2.0 of the well-known dependency injection library Dagger hit production and that seemed like a good reason for Mike Gouline to write an article about it.

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Design

Juhani Lehtimäki talks about the effects of smartwatch use in his life. He's been using Android Wear devices daily since the last year's Google I/O.

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Libraries & Code

Material Design implementation for Android 2.1+

Microlibrary for implementing infinite scroll on Android

A simple library for Android, which replaces the stock contextual action bar to allow more customization.

Videos

In this talk Eugenio Marletti shows how he solved continuous data availability across devices and Android & iOS platforms using Couchbase Lite.