Articles & Tutorials

If you’ve spent any time poking around the System UI Tuner on Android M, you’ve likely noticed the option to add a “Broadcast Tile” to Quick Settings. The article shares some code samples about how to make use of it.

Here's another article describing the Model-View-Presenter approach to Android development.

Mark Allison's challenge was to come up with a lightweight approximation of the material ProgressBar which would work on older devices. In this post he’ll take a look at the solution to that problem.

Etienne Lawlor found the existing set of tools to test the Geofencing API lacking. This is how he ended up testing the Geofencing API.

The author describes what he's found implementing a new architecture's solution called Catan Architecture, a hexagonal architecture for Android.

During animations your views may be redrawn each frame. If you use view layers, instead of having to redraw each frame, views render once into an off-screen buffer which can be reused.

Here's a new CodeLab from Google that walks you through implementing Material Design in your app.

From the next release of the Google Play services SDK, the requirement for the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission will be completely dropped from the Google Maps Android API.

When writing tests for your application's user interface, you will quickly recognize that the same actions are often repeated multiple times. As is always the case in software development, we can address the problem of leaking implementation with another layer of abstraction called Page Objects.

After 264 emails with tons of exchanges, 200+ mock screens, 30+ interaction prototypes, Taylor Ling has released a new app. This articles describes some of that process.

We learned about constructing cold (i.e., range) and hot observables (i.e., UnicastSubject) but nothing specific so far about how to convert between the two. Here's an article that describes the process.

Welcome to the 2nd edition of the Android Tidbits series!

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Libraries & Code

A full example of custom fonts in XML using data binding and including font caching.

Swipe right to display drawer with flowing & bouncing effects.

Lobsterpicker is a library for android material design made to support apps and developers if a color should be choosen by a user.

News

Google announced that they have teamed up with General Assembly (GA) to create a new Android Development Immersive training course.

Tools

Here's a new open source IntelliJ / Android Studio plugin to deploy, run and debug your Andorid apps over WiFi (without a USB cable connected) pressing only one button.

Combines several useful tools like Scalpel and Probe into a view inspection toolbar for android development.

Videos & Podcasts

The Big Android BBQ (BABBQ) is a developer event like no other; an Android combo meal that delivers super-sized portions of education and entertainment. Here's the playlist of all the published videos from the event.

Here are many tips and tricks for using IntelliJ IDEA (and Android Studio) to help you be quite productive. I would say it is a plethora of tips & tricks.

Matthias Käppler gives an overview of what our Android application architecture has evolved into, and how the use of RxJava for dealing with asynchronous streams of events has impacted its design, from data sources, to business logic and presentation.

Annyce Davis works on video on the Washington Post app. Hear her talk about playing video on Android, build flavors, clean architecture, testing and public speaking

This week Liam Spradlin talked to Arthur Bodolec, Design Co-founder of Feedly!

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