Articles & Tutorials

By open sourcing your work you’ll (hopefully) provide valuable code to the Android community, receive constructive feedback and collaborate on building something better than what you originally had. Here's how!

There are some drawbacks you should be aware of before migrating your code base as well. Here are some of those.

Let’s explore what is physics based animation and how it is different from normal animation.

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This tutorial presents device to device push notification in an android application. A user writes to the database, and all other users, who subscribe to that node(location) in the database, get notified.

An article about when Kotlin and Rx2 came into play, the one single replacement of () to {} completely changed the behaviour of an app without any warnings in compile-time. 

This post is about receiving push notifications with a custom payload and displaying different notification based on that payload.

With Support Library 26 features, a much-awaited feature was enabled: fast scrolling for RecyclerView. Shaishav Gandhi shows you how to use it.

Jobs

Umbrela (umbrela.co) is a startup building smarthome devices that replace conventional light switches and outlets. Our devices support built-in home security, multi-room audio, voice control, video intercom and wall wash RGB lighting to name a few.

Libraries & Code

Gradle plugin developed to facilitate screenshot testing for Android

An advance Emoticons & GIF keyboard.

A sweet, small set of Kotlin functions to reduce your android boilerplate code

News

Google introduces a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones.

Tools

Watch over the changing size of your .apk file and fail your build once the change exceeds your specified threshold.

Videos & Podcasts

Support Library v26 comes with a lot of new features. Florina Muntenescu presents an overview of the biggest changes.

With the EmojiCompat library, part of the Support Library 26, your app can get backwards-compatible emoji support on devices with API level 19 and higher

Events

There will be a Google Agencies Day Europe on 3rd October, 2017 at our offices in Kings Cross / London. So if you're running a mobile development agency - it's a free event, there will be great talks and great exchange between experts.