Articles & Tutorials

Antonio Leiva has been amazed by the Material Design diagonal animation that populates the activity from top to bottom and from left to right. Here he presents a technique to duplicate the effect.

Here are some statistics about why your apps' startup performance is so important.

Marcos shares how he prepared for his presentation at Droidcon NYC.

Joe Birch takes a look at what the new Chrome Custom Tabs library does and how we can use it to provide an improved User Experience when web content is displayed within our applications

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz introduces the Nearby Connections API, one of the many APIs available in Google Play Services.

What alarm type and API should you use for your app or are alarms even the best option? Ian Lake goes through some of the factors that should influence your opinion.

A quick intro to RxJava, RxAndroid with lots of code snippets.

Kiran Rao peeks into random commits on AOSP and try to predict what's coming to the world of Android development. This week's headline (future) feature is what the title says - lambdas!

Donn Felker shows how using RxJava with AIDL Services will help us clean up the interface to consume the AIDL service – making it easier to work with.

In this podcast, Tor Norbye and Chet Haase chat with Andrew Bunner and Akshay Kannan from Google's Nearby team

Chiu-Ki Chan posts all of her conference sketch notes from 2015.

In this second part, Dave Smith dives deeper into the client side of Google's Proximity Beacon API.

At Google I/O 2015 the all new Data Binding library was announced and in this series Mark Allison takes a look at the library and explore some of the powerful features it provides.

Dan Lew makes some excellent points as to why you shouldn't use dynamic version numbers for your dependencies.

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Libraries & Code

Android application powering the mirror in my house

A simple tool to allow easy bug report capturing within your app.

ksoap2 library for Android has reached a 3.5 release with lots of updates.

News

Google is expanding Player Analytics with two new analytics reports that give you better visibility into time-based player activity and custom game events. They’re also introducing a new Player Stats API to let you tune your game experience for specific segments of players across the game lifecycle.

Tools

A simple web-based 3D layer visualizer (useful for visualizing material UIs and other things involving depth/shadows) from Roman Nurik.

Interactive diagrams of Rx Observables

Videos

The day before Droidcon NYC, Huyen and Marcos Paulo Souza Damasceno (Android developer extraordinaire and co-organizer of Droidcon Montreal) chat about Android animations and Droidcon Montreal (and its food).

Haley Smith from Slack gives us a sneak peek of her Droidcon NYC talk on accessibility. Low-hanging fruits abound!

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