Articles & Tutorials

This short post shows how to make your MVP view completely passive using RxBinding.

Here's a list of helpful tips, tricks, shortcuts and resources for Android Studio that will improve your overall efficiency and performance. 

A new widget that was introduced in that release named BottomNavigationView which provides a simple way to implement the bottom navigation bar pattern which has been added to the Material Design Guidelines. In this post, Mark Allison takes a look at this new control.

If you have a mobile application or are going to develop one, it is important to remember about one thing on the side — mobile analytics, and a process behind it — application tracking.

A quick introduction of some features of Kotlin that make it a nicer language than Java.

Here's a design concept of search in a Quora meets LinkedIn application. The article shares a high level introduction on how to implement using Kotlin.

This time, Roberto Orgiu dives into Dagger 2 Scopes, Components and Subcomponents.

This post explains how to use Dagger 2 in Android Tests and how Dagger 2 helps in writing Espresso tests.

If you've never used a WeakReference in an Android app, you might want to read this article by GDE Enrique López Mañas.

MVVM + RxJava is a great formula for an app architecture. In this blog post, Lucia Payo sharies two specific issues and solutions using the actual specific scenarios that inspired them.

The TV Input Framework (TIF) on Android TV makes it easy for third-party app developers to create their own TV channels with any type of linear media.

Learn about MediaSessionCompat from the Android support library, and how it can be used to create a proper background audio service for your users.

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Libraries & Code

FirebaseUI is an open-source library for Android that allows you to quickly connect common UI elements to Firebase APIs like the Realtime Database or Firebase Authentication

A custom layout manager for RecyclerView which mimic TextView span behaviour, flow layouts behaviour with support of amazing RecyclerView features.

News

The MOVR (Mobile Overview Report) provides timely data about device usage trends - focusing on smartphone, tablet and feature phone usage - drawn from a sample of our internal data sources averaging over 1 billion hits per month.

Google has released Android Studio 2.3 to the Canary channel. This is an early preview of work going into the next major release of Android Studio with a large number of bug fixes and a handful of new features.

Tools

RemoDB offers free support for MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase AES database servers with a wide range of tools and quick shortcuts.

Videos & Podcasts

Kotlin's major advantages and features are immediately appealing and quick to learn, but it also has a lot of small and thoughtful parts which are harder to discover. This talk covers 10 favorites with real-world examples.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jason Monk from the System UI team about various things that he's worked on, including Quick Settings, Quick Settings tiles, and System UI Tuner.

Jeroen Mols' presentation on using Mockito for tests.

Have you ever wanted to write your own special Lint check? Or maybe you have wondered how Lint checks work? In this talk, come learn everything that you have ever wanted to know about Lint and more!

Huyen sits down with Amanda Hill, developer at Thoughbot, to talk about her open source Expandable RecyclerView.

Specials

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