Articles & Tutorials

Here's an article on how to carefully use RxJava to handle events from your UI.

Yannick Lemin takes you through the steps for creating a configurable widget.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to get valuable information from an APK using the aapt tool.

Joe Birch was inspired to experiment with brining motion to Android apps. This article peeks at some of the techniques available.

Thomas Nield take a look at the Observable.toList() operator.

Antonio Leiva has continued porting the App to Kotlin, and some interesting things are arising. Converting the DataManager has reduced the number of lines of code from 422 to 177.

Introducing the Chronos library for Android (API level >=9), which is designed to help you perform long operations, like database or network requests.

Currently, all Android Wear watches implement API 22, and in the coming months, these will receive an OTA update for API 23.

Here's a nice technique to extend overscroll behavior into your AppBarLayout.

In the previous article, Mark Allison showed how to stretch the toolbar image to be 20% wider than the screen with 10% overhanging on both left and right edges. In this article he’ll use that extra width to create some subtle motion during ViewPager transitions.

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Libraries & Code

An architecture for Android as a replacement of MVC.

The team from Lyft brings you a fixed viewport image cropping library for Android with built-in support for Picasso or Glide.

We all know that Fragments suck, and that #enumsmatter. What if we could replace Fragments with Enums? Here's an enum based library to replace fragments, because #perfmatters!

Dexter is an Android library that simplifies the process of requesting permissions at runtime. Dexter frees your permission code from your activities and lets you write that logic anywhere you want.

Are you a performance junkie? Do want your apps to run smooth like butter? Then checkout TinyDancer, a littler helper that indicates if your app is dropping frames.

News

Android Studio 1.5 is now available in the stable release channel. But what's in the box?

Tools

Dmytro Danylyk and Yakiv Mospan felt like there's a huge disconnect between Google's material design guidelines and developers docs. They decided to make site with a single list of available material components and samples of their usage.

Videos & Podcasts

In this mini Fragment, the team introduces Joshua’s fifth Item: Avoid creating unnecessary objects.

This week on The Developer Show, get passionate about Google Play Services 8.3, learn about some of the great new features in Chrome 47, and hear what the TensorFlow technical lead (Rajat Monga) has to say about how TensorFlow can be used by both researchers and software engineers.

Android Tool Time is a new video series where Reto Meier will be exploring the world of Android Developer Tools.

Chiu-Ki Chan's keynote at Android Summit 2015 on what makes an expert an expert. They share what they know, and you can do it too!

Learn about simple persistence for Android with Cupboard and the android-apt plugin from Android GDE Hugo Visser. Don't miss the pro tip!