Articles & Tutorials

Joe Birch takes a deep dive into ‘Buy with Android Pay’ to discover exactly what we could do with it.

Saúl Molinero shares some tips and tricks for using IntelliJ and Android Studio.

You probably know that Google's Material Design spec specifies to make your Navigation Drawer span the full height of the screen. Yet many apps fail to do this when their navigation drawer is opened.

To provide a better user experience, notifications on Android N have received a visual refresh, improved support for custom views, and expanded functionality in the forms of Direct Reply, a new MessagingStyle, and bundled notifications.

Jeroen Mols shows how you can visualize your current method count and understand what libraries are eating up the largest part of that. Next it's time to reduce said method count and remove that nasty multidex solution once and for all.

At Google IO 2016 Google announced a new Android layout named ConstraintLayout. In this series of articles Mark Allison takes a look at this new layout-kid on the block and try and get some insights in how best to use it.

Mark continues his look at ConstraintLayout, and justifies the reason for yet another layout container.

While the author was looking at Google's code lab on testing, he stumbled upon something disturbing within. You won't believe what happens next.

In this post, Rebecca Franks looks at creating a set of file templates that can achieve similar results to the default ones in Android Studio.

If your Android app derives keys using the SHA1PRNG algorithm from the Crypto provider, you must start using a real key derivation function and possibly re-encrypt your data.

Android Studio 2.2 Preview 3 was recently released. This preview comes with the highly requested feature revealed at Google I/O this year, Espresso Test Recorder.

In this post by the genius engineering team you'll learn techniques how put your APK on a diet.

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Libraries & Code

Custom view for user input that models horizontal wheel controller.

Android library which makes detecting gestures a breeze. The library is built for simplicity and ease of use. It eliminates most boilerplate code for dealing with setting up gesture detection on Android.

Android library to get device information in a super easy way.The library is built for simplicity and approachability. It not only eliminates most boilerplate code for dealing with device information, but also provides an easy and simple API to retrieve them.

A simple, open-source Mondo client for Android with unit and functional tests.

News

Google is introducing a new Android feature called Nearby, which notifies you of of things that can be helpful near you.

Android Studio 2.2 Preview 3 is available. Google fixed a lot of bugs concerning the new UI. One of the biggest new features: Convert Photoshop files directly to Vector Drawable. We would love to see Sketch support as well.

Tools

rxlint is currently a single lint rule that detects a subscription without a handler for onError()

Videos & Podcasts

Hannes Dorfmann's presentation on Android app architecture.

Effie Barak tells us how Udemy switches from MediaPlayer to ExoPlayer. You can hear more about it at her talk at 360andev.com

Specials

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Events

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