Articles & Tutorials

Mark Allison continues this short series on how to render a color wheel dynamically.

The easiest way to reduce build times is to not do anything unnecessary. Niklas Baudy shows how to make your custom Gradle tasks support incremental builds.

Andries shares a quick tip on automating some of your changelogs.

Florina Muntenescu writes a spantastic article on using Spans to add some flair to your text.

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Andrea Bresolin was curious to evaluate Kotlin coroutines and RxJava in terms of performance, so I’ve decided to create some simple tests.

This post by Andy Garron details how the Discord clients detect and render markdown and entity mentions in messages.

Vuyiswa Nkosi shares a guide to toolbar and action bar coloring rules that were learned through trial and error, with plenty of examples.

Mario Sanoguera de Lorenzo presents a theory on why Presenters are a thing of the past if we use ViewModel and LiveDate from the Android Architecture Components.

Manuel Vicente Vivo has looked into what it takes to set up Dagger 2 in an Android project, and what an implementation would look like.

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Libraries & Code

Powerful, elegant and flexible Kotlin test framework.

A tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code with low build-time overhead.

Extensible Android library for both parsing text into Abstract Syntax Trees and rendering those trees as rich text

An Android library to create gradient animation like Instagram&Spotify

News

Google announced that Android Studio 3.1 is now available to download in the stable release channel.

Google launched the Wear OS by Google developer preview and brought Android P platform features to wearables

Videos & Podcasts

Android GDE Dmytro Danylyk presents on Kotlin coroutines.

Droidcon Boston 2018 was a terrific #androiddev event. Nate Ebel met so many wonderful people (Editor: Hi Nate!) and was treated to a full slate of great technical content.

An overview of the basic concepts behind Android things and its structure and components by Anisha Dattatraya & Geeta Krishna.

Deep dive by Sanrio Alvares into the software layers that comprise Peripheral IO Manager for Android Things.

Android Studio 3.1 release introduces numerous highly requested improvements.

Keep your user up to date with key data that they care about with a complication data provider on Wear OS by Google (formerly Android Wear).