Articles & Tutorials

Google has produced Material wear design guidelines for the upcoming Wear 2.0.

In this article Mark Allison looks at the layout attributes which can be applied to child Views to control how they are positioned within the parent FlexboxLayout.

Android Wear 2.0 updates the visual style and interaction paradigm of notifications as well as introduces expanded notifications, which provide substantial additional content and actions in an app-like experience.

With just a few lines of code, you can enable quick and seamless checkout to help increase purchase conversions and ongoing engagement.

The Awareness API unifies 7 location and context signals in a single API, enabling you to create powerful context-based features with minimal impact on system resources.

Gabriele Mariotti takes a quick look at how easy it is to integrate Firebase crash reporting, and what the reports look like.

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Libraries & Code

A sweeter Espresso. Never write your own IdlingResource again. Never manually turn off system animations again.

RxSocialConnect simplifies the process of retrieving authorizations tokens from multiple social networks to a minimalist observable call, from any Fragment or Activity.

News

Google Developer Certification is a program designed so you can show what you can do and not simply what you know. It allows you to demonstrate your proficiency and skill with typical tasks that you as a developer perform daily in your job.

Google launched a fully revamped Sign-In API with Google Play services 8.3 providing a much more streamlined user experience and enabling easy server authentication and authorization.

Google has improved the Play console with better betas, the pre-launch report, benchmarks, a new Play Console app, and more.

Google announced Android Instant Apps, and it evolves Android apps to be able to run instantly, without requiring installation. With Instant Apps, a tap on a URL can open right in an Android app, even if the user doesn’t have that app installed.

Google announced the most significant Android Wear update since its launch two years ago: Android Wear 2.0. It will be available to users this fall.

The N-Release, Virtual Reality, Android Studio 2.2 and more

Google previewed Android Studio 2.2, a major update that includes a rewritten layout designer, new constraint layouts, a Firebase plugin, and much much more

Hans Dockter demoed the first milestone of writing a Gradle build script using Kotlin.

The first demo of Gradle Script Kotlin was delivered onstage at JetBrains’ Kotlin Night event in San Francisco. Here's some more information about the announcement.

Google shipped some updates to Ads, Nearby, Player Stats API and Video Recording API.

Tools

Access your Google Play Developer Console data from your Android device.

Videos & Podcasts

The playlist for all Google I/O 2016 presentation videos.

In this mini episode, the team talks with the lovely Kelly Shushter about Internal Library Dependency Management.

Specials

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