Articles & Tutorials

This discussion is about whether creating an interface for the Presenter in MVP is really needed.

As documented in the Android N behavioral changes, to protect Android users and apps from unforeseen crashes, Android N will restrict which libraries your C/C++ code can link against at runtime.

As we all know a good programmer is the one who can propose good separation of concerns, so the code is readable and understandable by anyone.

One of the features of developing an Android application with Android Studio is data binding. The most basic thing you get is elimination of findViewById!

Zarah Dominguez gets fancy with git history.

The Philosophical Hacker introduces Vice, a recent library that helps to reduce the burden of writing regression tests.

In the last article Mark Allison looked at how to create constraints to position a widget relative to another or the parent ConstraintLayout, but he can also fine tune the size and positioning by using a few layout parameters on the child widgets

How to avoid manual initialization methods in your Android library. Automatically initialise your library with the app's context on start up.

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Design

The thing that people really want is helpful information and they appreciate layouts which provide enough information for them to make a fully informed buying decision.

A concept for what it would be like ordering fast-food on Android TV…

Jobs

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We’re looking for experienced Android engineers to come and help us reinvent email and calendar on mobile for millions of people. Based in SF or NY, you'd be part of the Outlook for Android team, building the best user experience out there alongside our server and design teams.

Libraries & Code

Quill is the beautiful Android app for your Ghost blog.

Custom espresso actions for operating on descendant views such as children of a RecyclerView

Small Android library to help you incorporate MVP, Passive View and Presentation Model patterns in your app.

News

Preview 4 resolves the largest amount of bugs in the 2.2 release to date and includes some minor new features.

Tools

This is the DSL reference for Android Gradle Plugin.

Videos & Podcasts

Multi-window opens up a lot of new possibilities, but designing for split-screen multi-window starts with a responsive UI. With a few special considerations, you’ll have a great looking app.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jorim Jaggi, Selim Cinek and Adrian Roos from the System UI team about all the "math-gic" behind the animations in Lollipop, Marshmallow and N.

Huyen chats with Liam Spradlin (Google Design Expert, podcaster, livestreamer, and mutator) about the 5217 app and mutative design.

While at Droidcon Italy, Huyen picks Benjamin Augustin's brain on functional programming.

Spock maintainer Rob Fletcher demonstrates the current state of Kotlin testing frameworks by comparing it to Spek, JetBrains’s twist on a specification framework.

Spek framework contributor Laura Kogler demonstrates the current state of Kotlin testing frameworks and discusses expected further advancements in testing support.

An introduction to custom Views and ViewGroups, subclassing the View class, and performing completely custom drawing within that subclass.

Events

MobileOptimized 2016 will be held on July 15-16 in Belarus! Early Bird tickets are already available! Main focus will be on Android and iOS development: applications architecture, test automation, Swift, Realm, Kotlin and more.