Articles & Tutorials

Vito Valov discovered something very very useful in Firebase Crash Reporting; it’s all about getting user navigation trace when an app was force closed because of a FATAL EXCEPTION

Zarah Dominguez shares an important tip about commit messages.

Dmitriy Rabetckiy goes in-depth on how to achieve the fastest rendering of custom views.

Mark Allison released Prefekt – an Android SharedPreference library for Kotlin. Here are some more details about how he built the library.

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Francesco Azzola explores how to apply Machine Learning to IoT using Android Things and TensorFlow.

Because Activities' and Fragments' object creation is separate from view loading, the properties intended to store views must start out uninitialized. This post explores several approaches to handling properties that reference views

Ronen Sabag wrote about how to test an Activity that uses Dagger’s AndroidInjector in an Espresso test, but if using Fragments, we need to refine the solution in order to test them.

Adam Arold thinks that a lot more can be done using just the Kotlin standard library, so let's explore it in depth!

Leonardo Pirro shares a new way to create awesome animations in your app with just a few lines of code using Keyframe Animations with ConstraintLayout and ConstraintSet.

Struggling to navigate your code? Getting lost in deep inheritance hierarchies? Jeroen Mols shows how to navigate code in Android Studio like a pro.

In this Android tutorial, Dragos Holban builds a time zone converter app.

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Libraries & Code

Dependency inversion library for Android

News

As part of Mobile World Congress 2018, Google announced the first beta release of Flutter, Google’s new mobile UI framework that helps developers craft high-quality native interfaces for both iOS and Android.

This version adds a new declaration in the standard library, which imitates the suspend modifier for lambda expressions, and a whole lot more.

Videos & Podcasts

Sean McQuillan gives an overview of adding Picture in Picture support for Android apps.

In this snack chat, our Android Lead Joe Birch takes a look at Clean Architecture. We look at what it is, how we can use it, followed by some of the pros & cons around the approach.

The team talks about the different parts of Android architecture components with Akshay Chordiya.

An introduction to the Model View Intent architecture pattern. This pattern takes ideas and concepts from Reactive and Functional programming

Dan Lew @ DevFestMN 2018

Events

Droidcon Boston is back in town, don't miss the opportunity to join the vibrant Boston's Android community March 26-27th and get 20+ talks, 4 workshops and great networking. Register before February 23rd using this link to get a 20% discount and the official beanie of the conference.