Articles & Tutorials

Thomas Nield shares this multi-part article that's a crash course on RxJava. This will not make you an expert overnight, but it will definitely give you a jump start.

This articles demonstrates two IdlingResource examples: one for a thread pool and one for OkHttp.

Ronaldo Pace introduces a Decorator pattern approach to building your Android UIs.

Daniele Bonaldo takes a look at the new Jenkins Pipelines plugin & DSL for your continuous integration needs.

StateListAnimator was introduced in API 21 along with Material Design and is a really simple way to smoothly transition between visual states. In this series Mark Allison takes a look at how to use StateListAnimator to its full potential.

Alex Lockwood takes a deep dive into the new, Theme-aware Resources#getColor(int, Theme) method.

Niklas Baudy shares a practical example of how to use RxJava's takeUntil.

Jeroen Mols explains what copyright is and why it's so important. Further he also shows how to easily add/update copyright notices to your code base. As always, consult your lawyer for exact recommendations.

LinkedIn Engineering found that their tests had a major problem: the testing environment was unreliable, and tests failed intermittently. They created and open sourced Test Butler, a reliable Android testing tool.

Artem Zin shares some thoughts on thread safety in RxJava.

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Libraries & Code

This is a sample app that demonstrates how to architect an Android application using the Uncle Bob's clean architecture using Kotlin.

Reliable Android Testing, at your service.

News

Moyinoluwa Adeyemi a developer and co-organizer at a GDG had an aha moment: She looked at a clock and thought “What if it could tell the time in Yoruba?”. That question has lead to the development of an Android Watch Face that tells time in Yoruba language.

New version released with a couple bug fixes.

Google has released Android Studio 2.2 Preview 7 the Canary channel. This build contains a large number of bug fixes as we work to reach Android Studio 2.2 Beta.

Tools

Tired of trying to find a view from Espresso's huge view hierarchy output? Paste it here to generate an interactive tree.

Videos & Podcasts

Slides and videos from 360AnDev 2016.

Mark Allison chats with us about Constraint Layouts, what they are, why you need them, what to watch out for and how you can start using them in your application.

Huyen asks Danny Preussler, Android Craftsman for Groupon, about his tips on improving Unit Testing and how we can live a life without Roboelectric.