Articles & Tutorials

This article shows in great detail how to write an Android app that communicates with Eddystone BLE beacons.

While its default configuration of OkHttp offers significant utility, this article shares some steps for increasing the resourcefulness and introspective power of the library.

Hannes Dorfmann looks into the open source Plaid app and suggests some refactoring to improve the implementation.

Here are the simple steps to have side-by-side installs of your debug, beta & production builds.

With the arrival of hardware such as fingerprint scanners arriving on devices, there are some new much more user-friendly mechanisms that we can use for authentication. In this series Mark Allison explores how to implement these within our apps.

A nice post that points out the best practices to improve quality in your Android projects.

A nice journey from standard Activities and AsyncTasks to a modern MVP-based architecture powered by RxJava.

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Design

It is always a good idea to ensure that the hidden rules of the UI are sufficiently communicated to the user through feedforward or feedback, depending on the situation.

Jobs

Domestic Cat is looking for experienced and talented Android engineers to join our team, locally in Australia or remotely. We build apps for many companies from startups to corporations, both in Australia and in the US: all in a fun, collaborative and passionate working environment.

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Libraries & Code

Let me explain you this annotation based simple API flavored with AOP to handle new Android runtime permission model.

Tools

If you're doing bytecode instrumentation as part of your Android build, or if you are providing plugins that do instrumentation, and you want it to work with Instant Run, you need to switch to the Transform API.

Android libraries are great, but they come at a cost. Use this tool to avoid the dreaded 65K method limit of the DEX file format! Also includes an Android Studio plugin.

This long-awaited feature gives you the possibility to define your own code-folding regions with special line comments.

Videos & Podcasts

Videos of all the presentations from Google's annual Android Dev Summit.

Showing multiple screens or pages of content is easy with the help of ViewPager and a PagerAdapter. Combining that with tabs make for an effective top level navigation strategy for your app or for moving between content at the same level of hierarchy within your app.

Liam Spradlin chats with Nick Butcher, a Design/Developer Advocate at Google focused on Android.

Is it okay to answer your own question on Stack Overflow? What makes a good question? Google Developer Advocate Ian Lake tells all!

This lightning talk by Ray Ryan was part of a "Square Presents" event from November.

Welcome to the Developer Show, where you can stay up to date on all the latest Google Developer news, straight from the experts.

Donn and Kaushik cover the happenings of Google’s very first Android Developer conference – “Android Dev Summit”.