Articles & Tutorials

Andreas Vourkos explains the architecture of Android apps created with Unity and how to use WindowManager and different types of Windows to overcome issues created by Unity 5.6 release.

In this series, Andrew Lunsford shows how to set up both a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Client and Server and demystify the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) communication process.

Welcome to a complete guide to making Dagger, ButterKnife, and Model-View-Presenter (MVP) all work together in harmony. This is Part 1 of a 3-part series by Vandolf Estrellado.

Anko is an Android library to speed up Android development with the capabilities of Kotlin, thus making it more convenient. Adrián Bukros shows some of the great features.

Boris Farber needed a tool to understand how Kotlin compiles down to Java/Dex bytecode, and what precisely the Android runtime is seeing. Here he introduces his new open source tool for doing just that.

Dan Lew gave a talk this year about functional reactive programming (FRP) that attempted to break down what gives FRP its name and why you should care. Here's a write-up of that talk.

As Android Developers we have tons of choices when it comes to handling concurrency. This guide focuses on ReactiveX for Java (RxJava). This is a full blown ultimate guide about learning RxJava.

There are real costs to consider when adopting any new language, and Kotlin isn’t a fit for every team. Ryan Cooke looks in-depth at the challenges Android developers will likely face with Kotlin and offer solutions.

In this final article, Mark Allison takes a step back to look at the overall benefit that Architecture Components can offer us.

Learn how to populate an empty RecyclerView grid tusing custom animations.

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Libraries & Code

View your Kotlin generated classes as Java and bytecode format

Noise is an Android wrapper for kissfft, a FFT implementation written in C. Noise features an api that is designed to be easy to use, and familiar for Android devs.

Room Rxjava example shows how to fetch data as observable from database using room so that observable not only emits data but also emits data as it changes in the database

Robolectric 3.4 improves support for Android O Developer Preview 2, PackageManager, and many other Android classes, and resolves numerous bugs.

News

Google announces the version 1.0 release of the Android Testing Support Library (ATSL).

Google is rolling out Android O Developer Preview 4 to help you make sure your apps are ready. This is the final preview before we launch the official Android O platform to consumers later this summer.

Android Studio 3.0 Canary 8 is now available, with a focus on stabilizing to a beta quality release.

Videos & Podcasts

Maria Neumayer tells us how her team improved the code review process. Great tip: Include images in your pull requests to explain how the UI should look.

In this decompress episode, DF and KG kick it off with a brief discussion of the highlights from the recent reddit AMA that the Android Engineering folk conducted.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Yigit Boyar and Sergei Vasilinetc about the new Architecture Components project.

Ever wondered what your Android sees? Join Adrián Catalán on the journey to explore computer vision on mobile; explore different examples and walk through the basics of the available vision APIs.

Caren Chang explains how setOnClickListener() and setOnLongClickListener() methods work, and examines how view hierarchy is laid out in Android!