Articles & Tutorials

Recently, Yossi Segev released an open-source sample project called MovieNight and decided to describe the different components at play and the relationships between them as well as talk about some of the architecture decisions I’ve made along the way.

Everyone has a clear picture of what a mutable state is, but there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding of what concurrent and synchronized mean in this context. Roman Elizarov digs a little deeper to explain.

Android P introduced the Slices API, but with only sparse Javadocs and no indication of what they could be used for. After some digging and with a lot of speculation, Sebastiano Poggi presents you with the missing documentation for Slices!

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Ivan Morgillo writes about modularization and how he managed to split the code base to improve separation of concerns and build speed.

Tensor & Flow is a two part series where we will explore the specifics of what is needed to do to deploy a machine learning model to an Android app.

Facebook mobile developers have announced Profilo, a high-throughput, mobile-first performance tracing library.

Kotlin already has TODOs but it’s a tad bit aggressive. Here's Kaushik Gopal's slightly less aggressive approach to them.

Zak Taccardi proposes a (Kotlin) solution to argument serialization, argument deserialization while maintaining type safety, maintainability, and testing.

Alex Facciorusso explains how to use the fabulous Dagger 2 multibindings with new Architecture Components’ ViewModel class.

Here's a deeper look at what gives typeclasses its name and how they are interfaces that define pure behavior without state. They are convenient and ubiquitous as configuration parameters, which makes them a perfect candidate to be passed around along large call chains.

Nick Skelton shares 6 quick litmus tests to sort the apps polished by a well-oiled machine from those wobbling on a rusty lathe.

Egbai Smile Mmumene writes about how he used Realm and found a way to integrate it with LiveData and ViewModel and still fit it into an MVP architecture.

An open source library to simplify persistence on Android platform on SQLite, Shared-Preferences, file system (and REST client)

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Udacity is looking for a Content Developer -- a unique and dynamic job that is equal parts developer and educator -- to join our Android Curriculum team, and build Kotlin and Java apps and learning experiences for students worldwide.

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Libraries & Code

Modal bottom sheet dialog based on the Material Guidelines.

A library for performance traces from production

Convert JSON to Kotlin Data Classes

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Felipe Leme from the Android Framework team about Autofill, a framework which provides assistance with completing forms such as passwords and credit card numbers.

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 today using this link to get a 20% discount!