Articles & Tutorials

Florina Muntenescu shows how to do observable queries in Room with RxJava.

Adam McNeilly shows how to write a "Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog" app in Kotlin.

Some tips on how to start introducing Kotlin into your codebase.

While Mark Murphy still thinks that Google’s FLAG_SECURE choice was the wrong one, he's happy to see that O Developer Preview 3 gives us another approach.

For the past 2 months, Alex Lockwood has been working tirelessly on merging Shape Shifter and Roman Nurik's Android Icon Animator tool into a single web app.

In this part 3, Christophe reveals more secrets of the Kotlin compiler and provide new tips to write more efficient code.

Quentin shares an in-depth project for Android Things, including some Q&A at the end for issues in a project and how to fix them.

In this first part, Kaushik Gopal dives into making sense of the RxJava 2 changes from the point of view of a RxJava 1 user.

Artem Zin wanted to address a couple nitpicks with Kashik's RxJava 1 -> 2 conversion article from this week.

In this post by Mateusz Koślacz you'll learn about a Mosby based VIPER library for Android. VIPER is an architecture that splits your concerns into View, Interactor, Presenter, Entity and Routing. The VIPER library here relies on mosby.

Most of us using the Gradle Wrapper every day. In this post by Bryan Herbst you'll learn what it does and how it works.

Nice collection of snippets and tools on how to setup a CI infrastructure with Gitlab for Android.

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Design

Android O introduces adaptive launcher icons, which can display a variety of shapes across different device models. This website provides a tool for simulating what the icons might look like and how they animate.

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Libraries & Code

View GeoJson files on your Android Device. Simply choose a GeoJson file and select a map provider from the list.

A subtle triangle animation ported from the javascript SVG triangulation library.

A flexible, easy to use, unique drawer library for your Android project.

Access and process various types of personal data in Android with an easy, uniform, and privacy-friendly API.

News

JetBrains announced the release of Kotlin 1.1.3, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1.

Videos & Podcasts

Check out numerous Kotlin & Android presentations from the 2017 Gradle Summit.

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #16 of the Effective Java series – Favor Composition over Inheritance.

Chet and Tor talk with Lee Campbell and Ari Hausman-Cohen from the Android Things team about that project and IoT in general.

Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about color, spanning topics from how color works (on devices and in our eyes) to specific color technologies/specifications like sRGB and wide-gamut displays to specific features that are now available in the Android O Preview release.

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