Articles & Tutorials

With a little help from the new Android Design Support Library, Google is bringing a number of important material design components to all developers and to all Android 2.1 or higher devices.

The guys over at RoboVM have written a nice wrap up of what's new in Android Development Tools.

Google Cloud Test Lab is an instant device testing closet, with automated reports and scaling support. Tests will run on emulators and real hardware. This is a huge step forward in getting more quality to Android apps.

In this article, Antonio Leiva takes an in-depth look at the Navigation View

Google announced that the upcoming Android 'M' release will include a runtime permissions system. Dave Smith provides some additional clarity to what has been set forth so far.

At Google I/O 2015, a new feature was announced that allows "app developers to associate an app with a web domain they own." Here's a look at how to do that.

Nick Butcher shares a couple approaches on how to add ink ripple touch feedback to an image without having to add additional views to your hierarchy which would hurt performance or memory use.

With the latest support library release 22.2.0, we added an @VisibleForTesting annotation to support-annotations. This annotation denotes that a class, method or field has its visibility relaxed, so that it is more widely visible than otherwise necessary to make your code more testable

In this fourth article on Layout Transitions, Mark Allison looks at removing the restriction from the sample app that any Views in a starting layout must have corresponding Views in the destination layout.

Anyone working on the Android native framework can't get around several utility classes that are used almost everywhere by the native C++ code. sp, or StrongPointer, is one of them.

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Design

How do you design a UI that is supposed to be as minimal and forgettable as possible while demonstrating our new visual direction without ever overpowering the content that we are here to serve?

While FABs seem to provide good UX in ideal conditions, in actual practice, widespread adoption of FABs might be detrimental to the overall UX of the app. Here are some reasons why.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

BottomSheet is an Android component which presents a dismissible view from the bottom of the screen. BottomSheet can be a useful replacement for dialogs and menus but can hold any view so the use cases are endless.

EventBus 3 beta, with its new annotation based API, is available on Maven central.

Tools

A collection of useful live templates that you can use within your AndroidStudio or IntelliJ IDEA installation.

The Android Support Annotations library documentation has been updated with all the latest annotations.

Videos

Whether your app uses system or custom voice actions (https://g.co/VoiceActions), there might be times when the app would like to ask the user a follow-up question before performing the action.

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