Articles & Tutorials

This article will expand on the previous article, adding support for grid layouts, “handle” initiated drags, indicating the selected view, and custom swipe animations.

Mark Allison continues with his series on Prism – an all-new dynamic theming library for Android.

Saúl Molinero shares some great Gradle tips and tricks.

When Android M preview 2 was released, there were reports of LeakCanary crashing when parsing heap dumps. LeakCanary reached into the char array of a String object to read a thread name, but in Android M that char array wasn't there anymore!

Engineers at Yelp explored several solutions to the problem of downloading and handling several images in parallel, and ultimately decided that Glide provided a great combination of performance, ease of use, and a robust feature set.

Matthias Käppler's verdict for unit testing on Android: it's 2015, and it's still somewhat broken. Perhaps not as broken as it used to be, but still broken in some really fundamental ways.

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz gives a visual overview of the controls provided by the Design Support library.

Chiu-Ki Chan created an Android Wear watch face that shows the time with a different cat depending on how many steps you walked that day. How do you test something like that?

In this post the author updates his InstaMaterial source code from custom views implementatations to those provided by Google's Material support library.

This post (and the ones that will likely follow it) share a little bit about some of the techniques used to follow a TDD-based workflow for developing a Hacker News client application.

The author illustrates the change from MVP to MVVM via Google's new Data Binding support, using Hannes Dorfmann’s illustration from the introduction of his Ted Mosby framework

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Design

After some analysis on the FABs in some apps using the latest L release, UX GDE Taylor Ling is surprised to find the huge inconsistence in the implementation of FAB, even in Google's apps.

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Libraries & Code

In Dart 2.0, the team added new module is called Henson, which is an annotation processor that helps you navigate between activities.

Android library build on top of retrofit, for simple handling of authenticated requests

News

Google is expanding the range of use cases for beacon technology by publishing a new and open format for BLE beacons that anyone can use: Eddystone. Eddystone is robust and extensible: It supports multiple frame types for different use cases, and it supports versioning to make introducing new functionality easier

Nearby provides a proximity API, Nearby Messages, for iOS and Android devices to discover and communicate with each other, as well as with beacons.

Tools

Control and manage real Smartphone devices from your browser.

Videos

While in Mountain View, Chiu-Ki takes some time to talk to Richa Khandelwal, Senior Software Engineer at Coursera, about Android and VIPER.

Specials