Articles & Tutorials

In this tutorial, you will learn how to present your users with the Place Picker component, use the Places API to guess the user's current place, search for a place by its ID, and allow the user to type into a text field to present them with predictive results.

There are a number of improvements you can do to speed things up in your Gradle build. Some of these are still experimental and could be unsafe, but it is probably worth a try in case you’re suffering from long build times.

Slides from Hugo Visser's talk at the Android Developer Days in Ankara.

If you’d like to use a standard Android layout for your watch face, then this post shows you how.

This article gets you up and running with Android's new build system, from the basics of what Gradle is and what it does, to an in-depth look at some of the most important Gradle files, to learning how to execute and monitor Gradle tasks.

This post looks into the implementation of hardware-backed disk encryption on the Nexus 6, show how it improves performance, and finally describe some of the problems of the current implementation.

In this series of articles Mark Allison starts to look at how we can implement some nice transition animations even when we don’t have access to the transitions APIs.

RxPresso is the result of an effort to build a framework that would let developers achieve the simplicity of unit test syntax in presentation layer tests. It’s a simple way to mock data while testing and synchronise Espresso view actions with Rx pipelines.

Animations add vivacity and personality to your apps. Let’s take a look at how to implement a subcategory of animations called “Frame Animations,” meaning that they’re drawn frame by frame.

An article about how to automatically take screenshots (by writing ui tests and a Gradle build script) and publish them to play store

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Design

Cyril Mottier takes a deep dive into the Android Clock app's UI and analyses small issues that add up on an otherwise polished app.

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Libraries & Code

A UI widget that allows for headers and footers on lists backed by RecyclerView, for Android

An in-memory data store backed by shared preferences, for Android.

Anko is a library which makes Android application development faster and easier. It makes your code clean and easy to read, and lets you forget about rough edges of Android SDK for Java.

Videos

Paul details the notifications, pages and actions that show up on Android Wear and explains from a technical perspective how to customize and take them to the next level.

Specials

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