Articles & Tutorials

David González get's to work remotely. Here's how he makes it work.

Updates are essential for security, but they can be difficult and expensive for device manufacturers. Project Treble is making updates easier by separating the underlying vendor implementation from the core Android framework.

In this blog post by Moyinoluwa Adeyemi you'll learn how to create multiple contructors for Kotlins immutable data classes.

This is an introduction to RxRedux, a library that manages state for your Activities, Fragments & views easily. Be sure to checkout out the code in the "Libraries & Code" section.

In this article, Mark Allison takes a look at the ViewModel from the new Architecture Components.

Using Dagger doesn’t fully solve all problems around unit testing. That’s why this article announces the release of Marinator, a library for streamlining the use of dependency injection.

Finally, Android Studio 3.0 brings (backported!) support for most Java 8 features. Jeroen Mols shows how those work and why you should upgrade.

In this tutorial, Chike Mgbemena shows how to generate an app-specific token that will fire up a pending intent when the device first receives a message containing that token so as to verify the phone number. 

Cédric Beust admits to introducing a form of Hungarian notation to the Android codebase.

Matt Tea shares this guide to outline the best practices for building out APIs, web services, and databases for mobile apps and mobile clients.

Lyla Fujiwara answers some questions about ViewModels from the Android Architecture classes, including "Are ViewModels a replacement for Loaders?"

If you haven’t gotten a chance to attend 360|AnDev yet, you need to change that. Victoria Gonda shares some of the great sessions you may have missed.

Sha Sha Chu guides you, Grumpy Java Developer, through your first lines of Kotlin.

After all the Room ORM tutorials lately the crew from Mindorks has released a post that explains how to use the greenDAO 3 ORM. We have used this library in several projects and it's really nice - besides it handles relations very well.

In this post by Andrzej Chmielewski you'll learn how the RecyclerView fits in the MVP architecture. You'll learn how to delegate all the view logic to a presenter.

In this article Vasilis Charalampakis explains how you realise a state management where you can implement undo and redo in a reproducible way.

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Libraries & Code

Dependency Injection made delicious

A simple file/ directory picker dialog for Android.

RxJava wrapper for Android Play Billing Library.

A library that manages state using RxJava 2.

Videos & Podcasts

A new weekly podcast with the latest & greatest Android dev news.

Mark Scheel talks about how Android Studio is Wicked Pissah (slang in Boston for meaning awesome).

Need to understand the basic guidelines for writing Android apps and save yourself from writing a bunch of boring boilerplate code? Join these Google Developer Experts, as they take you through the new Android Architecture Components.

Torrey Atcitty and Michael Soares present an approach to obtaining user location data and sending back real-time updates at every step of the way including the challenges of supporting various scenarios where a device is not connected to a power source throughout the duration of a job.

Do you find RoboGuice simple but slow? Do you think Dagger 1 & 2 are fast but complex and bloated? Toothpick is the best of both worlds! It's is a scope tree based, runtime but reflection free implementation of JSR 330.

Events

Chiu-Ki was a software engineer at Google and now runs her own mobile development company based in Colorado, US. In her keynote she will elaborate on the question of expertise and share her tips on how to build up competence.