Articles & Tutorials

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Dmytro Danylyk's presentation on how designers and developers can work together on designing a new app.

Joe Birch recaps his experiences at Droidcon London.

Saúl Molinero introduces the CoordinatorLayout from the Material support library, and shows how to achieve various scrolling effects with it.

After browsing though other blog posts about how to publish an Android Library, Etienne Lawlor still found that there were some missing details and that all the information was in different places. So he describes the entire process in this post.

One of the cornerstones of Material design is meaningful motion between screens. These animations are supported in the form of the transitions framework, which allows us to animate transitions between Activities and Fragments

ReactiveX is an API that focuses on asynchronous composition and manipulation of observable streams of data or events by using a combination of the Observer pattern, Iterator pattern, and features of Functional Programming.

Dependency Injection (DI) is a design pattern which has been around for while, but recently it has become more commonly used in the development of Android applications. DI allows developers to write code that has low coupling and which can therefore be easily tested.

Donn Felker contemplates the strengths and weaknesses of the Android platform.

In this series, Mark Allison will explore how to integrate and animate different elements of the AppBar to provide smooth UI and UX which implement material design style animations and transitions.

The Place Picker Widget and Autocomplete component are two powerful features part of Google Play Services. This article takes a look at both of these components and how you can implement them in your applications.

In these slides you will learn what RxJava is about, how to use it on Android and how RxAndroid can be used to build maintainable Android Apps from networking with Retrofit2 to UI with the new RxBinding and RxLifecycle libraries powered by MVP.

An in-depth article about implementing more advanced video recording features in your app.

Seven new tidbits for developers.

Jobs

The Dropbox mobile team is focused on innovation within the Dropbox app, constantly improving both the technical foundation and the user interface. Come build the future of Dropbox!

Libraries & Code

Plaid is a showcase of material design that we hope you will keep installed. It pulls in news & inspiration from Designer News, Dribbble & Product Hunt. It demonstrates the use of material principles to create tactile, bold, understandable UIs.

A powerful Android chart view / graph view library, supporting line- bar- pie- radar- bubble- and candlestick charts as well as scaling, dragging and animations.

A easy way of using Android SharedPreferences

News

Earlier this year Google previewed Brillo and Weave, their complete solution for building connected devices. Now they're extending this to the broader developer community as part of our invite program.

To learn how to extend your existing media and messaging apps to work within a car, Google collaborated with Udacity to introduce a new course on Ubiquitous Computing with Android Auto.

Videos & Podcasts

Learn how to get started with Android and Android Studio in this short tutorial. It demontrates how to install Android Studio and create your first Android app

Chiu-Ki and Virginia chat about how they collaborated on Fit Cat, and how developers and designers communicate.

Specials

Which are the most popular cloud APIs? Does mobile, IoT or cloud development pay better? These are just some of the questions that our friends at VisionMobile tackle in their latest Developer Economics research. Take their 10-minute National Trends survey and help piece together 2015’s hottest developer trends.