Articles & Tutorials

Laimonas Turauskas has been using a reactive functional approach to manage state. Here he shows examples of how to implement this using RxJava.

In this blog series, Manuel Vicente Vivo compares Kotlin Coroutines and RxJava on different topics since they are trying to solve a common problem in Android development: Asynchronous Programming.

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Nick Rout shows how to leverage the Android framework and Kotlin to make Canvas text drawing more powerful.

Tom Wilson shows how to automate your release notes using the fastlane automation toolkit.

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In this article, Francesco Azzola covers how to develop an Android IoT app that uses Android Things. The app will send data, acquired from the sensors, to the cloud.

Filipe Batista is back again with the final post on ADB Commands. Here he shares ‘extra’ commands that can be like a ‘Swiss army knife’ and save you hours of despair.

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

The Android tools team has released the next-generation dex compiler, D8. D8 is the replacement for DX and it comes with the new release of Android Studio 3.1.0. Sagar Viradiya takes a look at why it's an improvement.

Sean Amos and Evan Tatarka announce the release of Hyperion for Android, a plug-and-play debug menu library designed to help fill in the gaps between design, development, and QA.

Rafael Toledo continues his series building a Kotlin & Firebase App from Scratch.

ListAdapter is a new class bundled in the 27.1.0 support library and simplifies the code required to work with RecyclerViews. Craig Russell shows how it works.

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Libraries & Code

App Debugging & Inspection Tool for Android

This application provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB. It does not require any root access. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Friendly Pix is a Google sample app demonstrating how a photo-sharing social network can be built using the Firebase Platform.

Minimalistic Optional type for Kotlin that tries to fit its null-safe type system as smooth as possible.

News

Google announced that D8 has become the default compiler in Android Studio 3.1 and they hope that you notice better, faster dex compilation as you make the switch.

Support Library 27.1.1 has been released with numerous bug fixes.

Videos & Podcasts

Marcel Schnelle presents the advantages of early adoption of JUnit 5 for Android developers by introducing a third-party Gradle plugin which enables any Android project to profit from what will eventually become the future de-facto standard for unit testing.

In this talk, Rebecca Franks presents some of the nifty features she has explored while learning Kotlin, as well as the many different ways she has gone about trying to learn this new language.

Events

We're excited to celebrate our 10th anniversary this year in summer! droidcon Berlin is where the industry's leading Android experts converge to support the Android platform and create a strong network for developers and companies. We will attract over 1200 developers in 2018, have 80+ technical Android talks, workshops & codelabs!