Articles & Tutorials

Thanks to Corey Leigh Latislaw, Chiu-Ki Chan and others, 22 percent of the speakers at a recent Android conference in New York were women. Here a four lessons learned to help when planning your next conference.

Marshmallow introduced a new way for devices to preserve battery life by going idle. As an app developer, this means that there is now a difference between your app falling out of the foreground and the device itself being idle.

It’s important to continuously measure your app’s performance to detect when your app underperforms. Once a performance issue is detected, you should focus your energy on finding the root of the issue.

Because some apps run outside your application itself, you can’t use Espresso to interact with them. So how can you test your app’s behavior? You can use Espresso-Intents.

RxJava is asynchronous by nature, so unit testing it might seem a daunting at first, especially if you use that asynchronous interaction to test stuff. Luckily, RxJava (and RxAndroid) come with a couple of tools that will make our life a lot easier.

This post will walk you through configuring your Mac for Android development

Investigating the state of ASLR on Android, how Zygote breaks it, and how Copperhead fixed it in their ROM.

Mark Allison continues this series, taking a look at what the Data Binding library is doing for us and how it actually works.

This is another post in Google's series featuring tips from developers finding success on Google Play. This week, they’re sharing advice from Telltale Games on how to create a successful game on Android TV.

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Design

Design Notes is a new podcast by designer Liam Spradlin, focused on talking to developers and designers about the projects they're working on (or worked on) that excite them.

Chris Basha created a full re-design of the Twitter app in this exercise. This is a peek at what goes into designing an app.

Jobs

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We're looking for engineers to join our 4-person Android team in Philadelphia or New York City. We work closely with design and product teams to build apps that offer an amazing video streaming experience to all our users on various form factors - phones, tablets & TVs. Come join us at DramaFever!

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Libraries & Code

A flow chart to help the modern Android dev solve crashes. This is what open source is all about, collaboration, so please submit your pull requests.

A huge code sample that demonstrates the three main types of animations that can be done via the Android Transition Framework.

News

Three new Android Marshmallow sample applications have gone live this week. As usual they are available directly from the Google Samples repository on GitHub or through the Android Studio samples browser.

Tools

Google has just released a new version of the Android Testing Support Library, with updates and bug fixes for Espresso and more.

The Android Feature Graphic Generator allows you to easily create a simple yet attractive feature graphic for your Android application. It will generate a PNG image file according to Google's guidelines.

Google has just released Android Studio 1.4 release candidate 1 to the canary channel (and beta 4 to the beta channel).

Videos

What are all these "tools" attributes in XML, and how does Android Studio use it? Learn about the Android support tools from Sebastiano Poggi, Android craftman from Novoda and Android GDE.

In this screencast, Dave Smith teaches the basics of how Android's CoordinatorLayout behaviors are used, and methodologies for creating custom behaviors.

Events

Developers from ARM's Systems and Software Group and trainers from ARM's Partner Enablement Group will deliver key information and training to get you up to speed with the state of the art in support for Android on 64-bit ARM platforms. We'll cover details of the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture and instruction set, the development environment, and we'll be giving key advice on porting your native code to 64-bit.