Articles & Tutorials

The newly expanded material design‬ motion guidelines can help you produce motion that feels natural, while delivering a clear and cohesive experience for your users.

JRebel is like Instant Run - but on steroids. In this blog post by Oleg Šelajev you'll learn how to get started with JRebel for Android.

Naming things can be a hard job - in this blog post you'll lean some nice rules to achieve neckbeard level.

Alexandru Simonescu takes a look at the tools namespaces and it's uses in your layouts.

Hannes Dorfmann takes on a journey of building common resusable components between apps.

RenderThread is a new component that was introduced in Android Lollipop. In order to understand what it really does, there’s a few concepts that need to be introduced in this article.

Colt McAnlis describes the why and how of vector images in Android.

The primary mode that users will be interacting with multi-window is through split-screen mode, which is available on both handheld devices and larger tablets. Ian Lake describes how to do this for your app.

In this new Android Development Patterns post, Ian Lake describes how your app can make proper use of tasks and the back stack that's part of Android.

In this post by the PSPDFKit guys you'll learn how to tame the soft keyboard for best UX results.

In this multipart series by Mark Allison you'll learn how to use the new Flexboxlayout.

In this post by the Big Nerd Ranch guys you'll learn about the different mechanism to put workload in the background.

Nice post by the Yelp team about some strategies to minimize your app images.

In this post Sebastian Deutsch rants about the current state of Android Development. He has some interesting advices for open source maintainers and also Google.

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Design

Here’s is a quick workaround using the native Mac OS color picker in Sketch 3 to use the Material Design palette.

Jobs

Yelp connects consumers with great local businesses all across the world. We’re looking for Android developers of all levels who love creating delightful user experiences for millions of people and thrive in taking ownership of the product they work on.

Libraries & Code

RxAssertions is a simple idea for better RxJava assertions

Cut the hassle when implementing in-app purchases on Android. Reactive Billing is a lightweight reactive wrapper around In App Billing API v3 for Android.

Image Cropping Library for Android, optimized for Camera / Gallery. Be sure to checkout the sample application to see it in action.

A nice swipe layout that provides new actions with a material design look and feel.

News

Some improvements in the new release, including: size of the standard library has been reduced by ~1500 methods, and better support for Android Lint checks.

Google released the Android Studio 2.1.1 update. The incremental update addresses two security vulnerabilities in the underlying IntelliJ platform that affects all previous versions of Android Studio

Android Support Library, revision 23.4.0 has been released.

Videos & Podcasts

Concurrent documents gives users the ability to multi-task within your app, switching between independent parts of your app using the Overview screen (formerly Recents) or, with the help of Android N’s split-screen mode, even showing them side by side.

The Fragment team talk TextViews, font rendering complications in Android, performance optimizations, localization (vs internationalization), ECDC (it’s a thing!)

This tutorial walks through the steps to create an Android gradle task that grants the permissions on Marshmallow (and presumably later) devices without having to run the app or go into the device settings

In this presentation Annyce Davis teaches how to take advantage of the Screen Robot abstraction technique.

In this episode, Chet visits the Google's Android office in London and chats with Oliver Woodman about ExoPlayer, an application level media player for Android.

In this episode Artem Zinnatullin talks about Indie Development with Chris Lacy.

In this quick-tip lesson from Annyce Davis, you will learn: how to create a Logcat Filter in Android Studio, how to ignore certain log tags, how to select your own application’s log tag

Huyen sits down with Juhani Lehtimäki and chats about how developers can turn their side project dreams into reality by following the story of Juhani's work on his side project, Lands of Ruin.

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