Articles & Tutorials

In this article Egor Andreevici describes an approach that uses Dagger to create clean and robust functional tests.

In the first post you learned how ClassyShark was born. In this post Boris Farber discusses how ClassyShark can help you to inspect your APK.

Here's a technique for mixing UIAutomator with your Espresso tests to get past runtime permission dialogs on Marshmallow.

Ever since the Bluetooth Classic days, peripheral devices have exposed their connectable interfaces as services. Each service is represented by a universally unique identifier or UUID.

Christian Panadero shares how to set up a TravisCI for continuous integration builds.

Here's an RxJava-based approach to loading cached data vs loading from a REST endpoint.

Ian Lake explains how compileSdkVersion, minSdkVersion, and targetSdkVersion control what APIs are available, what the required API level is, and what compatibility modes are applied.

Michael Evans shares some Android Studio tips & tricks.

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Design

Here are a few patterns that are (or used to be) considered best practices and yet might not be as good as you’d think at first sight.

Libraries & Code

Simple android view to display gifs efficiently. You can start, pause and stop gifView. Example usages can be found in example project.

Override an object managed by Dagger 2 is not easy, you need to define a TestModule and, if you want to inject your test object, a TestComponent. Here's a JUnit rule to easily override Dagger 2 objects.

Here's a nice collection of must-have open source libraries for Android development.

News

It's the beginning of the month, and that means Android platform distribution numbers have been updated.

Commentary about the news coverage and pundit FUD that has quickly come forth from Google's decision to move from the Apache-licensed Java implementation to the JDK available from Oracle.

Videos & Podcasts

On this Android Dialogs, Huyen vists Mike Evans to talk about Android Studio tips and tricks and annotations