Articles & Tutorials

Roberto Orgiu looks at a new tool called ClassyShark to help reduce the size of your build.

Nick Butcher is really digging non-suspending breakpoints in Android Studio. They let you log to the console without pausing execution.

You should consider process death a natural part of your app’s lifecycle. The important part is to make sure that the memory reclamation associated with killing a process does not negatively affect the user.

Memory leaks in Android are quite easy to create. The unsuspecting developer might be making a few memory leaks every days without realising.

If you publish a library for Android, there are some basic rules to follow, particularly given Android 6.0’s runtime permissions.

A very common case in developing rest application is server polling and retry. Danylo Volokh decided to write about that after he implemented server polling correctly with RxJava and Retrofit.

Simplifying or rearranging the view hierarchy of your app can improve performance, especially on lower-end devices and earlier versions of Android.

Miroslaw Stanek prepared simple library which can help with catching potential performance issues using Dagger 2.

In this short series Mark Allison is going to look at how we can provide a visual representation of the currently playing audio stream.

Second part.

In this two part series by Carl Whalley you'll learn some reactive programming using RxAndroid. He'll cover the problem, the motivation and a solution.

Tomasz Rykala takes a closer look at Genymotion 2.5 features that make UI testing easier.

repeatWhen and retryWhen are fairly baffling at first glance: they allow you to conditionally resubscribe to Observables that have terminated. Dan Lew recently studied how they worked and I want to try to explain them.

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Libraries & Code

A gradle plugin to frame android screenshots with devices frames.

Performance metrics library for Dagger 2 initialization process

A customizable indeterminate progress bar

News

Google is taking steps to reduce sign-in friction and unnecessary permission requests for players by moving the Games APIs to a new model.

Videos & Podcasts

This week on The Developer Show, join Timothy Jordan as he crashes a live Twitter chat on Udacity Nanodegree programs / Developer Training

This episode is all about Android Studio. In particular, Tor & Chet talk about the latest features and massive performance improvements in the Android Studio preview that was detailed at the Android Dev Summit and which has been in development and under improvement since then.

Events

Appnext is sponsoring the GDC trips for the game developers running its Rewarded Video SDK. The promotion is live until March, 5th and includes the flights, conference passes and accommodation in San Francisco.