Articles & Tutorials

Reto Meier shows how the Awareness API helps you engage users in specific situations using simple, battery efficient ways to check their current context, and to create “fences” so your app can react to a specific set of conditions.

Dan Kim wrote a guide on how to go about writing and releasing an open source library for Android.

This tutorial shows how to create a ripple effect in any color.

Colt McAnlis shares his obsession (addiction really) about Data Compression.

As one of the co-organizers of 360|AnDev, Dave Smith recently took it upon himself to build the conference Android app using Firebase.

So far in this series Mark Allison has looked at many aspects of ContstraintLayout itself but there are a couple of features of the visual editor which are also worthy of study.

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We have fully embraced RXJava, using it for all async operations. We investigate and utilize new third party libraries, including but not limited to Butterknife/OkHTTP/Retrofit/Guava (not new but grrreat!) /Picasso/ Roboelectric/ Mockito, etc. etc. We were out with the release of Wear & Google Fit.

Libraries & Code

ButterKnife v8.2.0 released with view binding support for library projects. Yes, you read that right.

News

JetBrains presents the first preview version of Kotlin 1.1. It's far from Beta, but the brave and curious ones can play with new exciting things (and hopefully give some invaluable feedback).

Videos & Podcasts

Matt Precious explains when and when not to go custom, and provide tips and tricks for getting the most out of your views.

Ellen Shapiro compares iOS & Android Testing, and tells us one thing from each platform she would like to bring to the other. And yes, there are Futurama references.

The goal of this presentation is to get you started developing great apps for Android Auto.

Direct Reply allows you to receive text input from the user directly in the notification shade.

In this video, Google provides guidelines and best practices for enabling Google Cast for your app. They walk through live examples to demonstrate specific concepts.

Chiu-Ki Chan shares her tips and techniques for dealing with a wide range of densities and resolutions.

Timothy Jordan, host of The Developer Show, chats with Mihai Ionescu, Developer Platform Manager about Google Search APIs.

Specials

Smart mirrors come from the idea of bringing technology into every-day, not-so-smart objects: the traditional mirrors. This article shows how to build one yourself.

Events

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