Articles & Tutorials

In this blog post by Oleg Šelajev you'll learn about two mechanism that claim to shorten your development cycle by hot reloading your java code.

Annyce Davis has been digging deep into RxJava, especially as it's used in Android applications. Here she shares some of the resources she's found to help others in their reactive journeys.

Reto Meier explains how Instant Run works in Android Studio.

The purpose of the article is to demonstrate a method on how to extend the capabilities of the Google Maps API on Android devices and allow apps to render a few tens to a hundred thousand markers (with limitations on the marker variety).

In this post by Joe Birch you'll learn how he built Bourbon, a Dribbble client for several Android targets. He show his architectural approach and explains some of his design decisions.

In this article, Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz teaches about some of the more commonly used View components available for displaying content and you are introduced to how they are used.

In this blog post, Paul Blundell discusses class naming using Model View Presenter as the example and show you one change you can do to make your code cleaner and more readable.

The Android security team has been hard at work building new tools to help developers protect user data in transit.

Slides for Droidcon Zagreb 2016 "MVVM and RxJava – the perfect mix" talk

The wear app persists data locally using the DataApi with some built in data integrity protection. So now that the data is stored locally, how do we trigger the UI update? Mark Allison shows us how.

Roberto Orgiu has been doing a lot of studying of the Zero Configuration Protocol and its implementations on Android. There's more than one way to do the same thing, with ups and downs.

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Design

In this series of articles, John Carpenter introduces programmers to UX principles that all of us should know about.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Adds listeners for Activity and Fragment. Why? In a word: composition

Error Prone is a static analysis tool for Java (from Google) that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.

Estimates the size of a Google Play patch and the new gzipped APK.

RxAndroid 1.2 is now available with some performance tweaks.

A sample Android app using the MVP architecture

Composition over inheritance for Android components like Activity or Fragment

Flexbox is great for layouting. It is so great that the react-native guys implemented it for layouting native apps. Now google open sourced it's own implementation of the flexbox layouting algorithm for Android.

Integrate Mulitple Services With Just One API. CloudRail is a free software library which abstracts multiple APIs from different providers into a single and universal interface.

News

It's the beginning of the month again, and that means it's time for Google to update the Android platform distribution numbers. They show Marshmallow as the only version gaining, now at 7.5.

Google has been working on new security features designed to enhance the existing security model and provide additional defense in-depth in Android.

Videos & Podcasts

The latest news from Google, for developers.

Join Reto Meier as he offers a peek behind the curtain to learn how Instant Run actually works, and learn some tips to help make it work better for you.

Android Dialogs team's first Q&A episode that answers "What do we follow to keep updated on Android?"

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Events

#WearablesTechCon, July 18-20 San Jose, is the top wearables apps and HW event. Use code WEARIT for $100 discount

Ukrainian Google Developers Groups are proud to announce the fifth annual GDG DevFest 2016 which is the biggest Google related event in Ukraine carefully crafted by GDG community! The event will take place on 9-10th of September in Lviv.

Books

If you’re looking to outsource your android development or you develop apps for others, read ‘The Outsourcing Playbook’ for Android development for helpful tips to make your app a success. You can access the new playbook for free as an ebook direct from Play Books!