Articles & Tutorials

These slides tour one of the most understated resources in the Android developer arsenal: the support tools.

Udi Cohen reviews case studies using Systrace, Traceview, Hierarchy Viewer, Allocation Tracker, Eclipse MAT and others, demonstrating variety of problems that many apps suffer from, and how to solve them.

A high-level introduction to Android's Camera 2 API examining the underlying camera subsystem and hardware extraction layer changes that founded a complete re-work of the camera API. (Droidcon NYC, 2015)

Slides for "What's New in Android UI Engineering" presentation by Nick Butcher, Roman Nurik and Chris Banes at Droidcon NYC 2015.

The Preferences Support v7 Library makes it possible to use any Activity class with PreferenceFragmentCompat and add preferences using the same preference XML.

In addition to fixing some long-standing annoyances, there are a handful of new features which make Retrofit 2 more powerful than ever. (Droidcon NYC, 2015)

Dave SMith's walkthrough of a (hopefully) sane method of creating a custom LayoutManager for Android's RecyclerView. (Droidcon NYC, 2015)

Great Android apps only include what's needed to achieve the goals of the product, not enhance the resume of the developer. Learn four tips to delivering high quality Android applications. (Droidcon NYC, 2015)

Now that Data Binding is graduating from Release Candidate status, it's a better time than ever to start using it in your projects. (Droidcon NYC, 2015)

A simple guide for MVC, MVP and MVVM on Android projects

Stetho is an open source debugging platform, developed by Facebook, that offers a rich and highly interactive debugging experience to Android developers.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow introduces one of the largest changes to the permissions model with the addition of runtime permissions, a new permission model that replaces the existing install time permissions model when you target API 23 and the app is running on an Android 6.0+ device.

Liam Spradlin's slides and notes from his presentation at Droidcon NYC - Your Brand in a Material World.

Google released the Desktop Head Unit (DHU), a new testing tool for Android Auto developers. The DHU enables your workstation to act as an Android Auto head unit that emulates the in-car experience for testing purposes.

In this short series, Mark Allison will look at a new support library named Percent which provides an alternative to using weights in LinearLayout to divide space within your layouts.

Dan Lew's Droidcon NYC 2015 presentation on using styles and themes without going crazy.

In Java it’s common to work with listeners. And if you work with RxJava, you will prefer to use an Observable instead of listeners. But what if you have to deal with a library and you cannot change the source code?

Jorge Castillo released a new library with an interesting filling effect for a custom silhouette created by a given SVG Path, and it is totally open to be extended by the Android community.

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Design

In this free course, you'll learn how to apply the material design principles that define Android's visual language to your apps. Launching on Monday, August 31st.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

A library for Android that makes it super easy for developers to incorporate material design and bootstrap buttons with icons into their apps, or simple icon themed TextViews.

A simple, annotation-based Android library for generating onActivityForResult handlers.

Annotation-triggered tracking along with Google Analytics for Android

An experimental Hacker News reader built as an MVVM structured project using the official Data Binding library.

This library extends AssertJ core with the aim of providing elegant assertions to test RxJava Observables.

A simple ViewPager extends that provide scroll based animation like Jazz Hands for iOS

Android Open Source library providing an interesting fillable progress view working with SVG paths.