Articles & Tutorials

In this post Bartek Lipinski explains how to use two Java 8 features to clean some of your Android code.

Here are nine things about #DCNYC17 from Daniel Heron's out-of-state and first timer’s perspective.

The Instagram team optimized the user interface to make videos easier to watch, and it serves as a great example of how we approach building user interfaces on Android.

In this tutorial, Chike Mgbemena demonstrates handling concurrency using RxJava 2: what it is, the different Schedulers available, and how to use the subscribeOn() and observeOn() concurrency operators.

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Did you know that you can inline properties in Kotlin? Egor Andreevici demonstrates how this works.

Learn about things that can break in your app, sometimes in very subtle ways, when you enable ProGuard.

Giovanni Laquidara demonstrates building a Daydream VR app using Unity and the Google VR SDK.

In this article Juhani Lehtimäki explains how the custom look and animations were implemented for the Social Steps app.

If somebody asked about the Gradle feature that everybody should know about, Madis Pink would probably point them towards buildSrc. It is a magic Gradle Java/Groovy project inside your repository, available as a library to all of your build.gradle files.

Evan Tatarka announces the release of assertk, an assertion library built specifically for Kotlin, modeled after AssertJ. assertk gives you fluent assertions with an extensible api.

Mostafa Gazar shares some tips on writing good Kotlin code and using what the language has to offer

In Marshmallow (V6.0 – API 23) Android actually got some good MIDI support, and in this series of articles Mark Allison takes a look at how we can create a MIDI controller app.

In this post Joe Birch explains how to test your ViewModel LiveData.

Great list by Nilesh Singh about best practices for beginners.

In this post by Peter Törnhult explains how LiveData and ViewModel can be used right with the FragmentManager backstack. Peter actually discovered something that might be a bug - but fortunately he was able to work around.

In this article Stephane Nicolas demonstrates how to pass data between Fragments and Activities in clean and sane manner.

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Libraries & Code

A Retrofit extension written in Kotlin.

Android custom shadow view which is more flexible than the CardView.

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Videos & Podcasts

We chat with Zarah Dominguez before Google I/O to get some insights on instant apps.

Namrata Bandekar goes through her experience experimenting with built-in as well as third-party libraries for video manipulation on Android.

If you’re writing Android apps on a memory-constrained machine, this video will show you tips and tradeoffs in running Android Studio more smoothly.

In this episode, Chet and Dan Sandler talk with Julia Reynolds from the Android System UI team about Notifications: channels, Do-Not-Disturb, Dots, ... it's all here.