Articles & Tutorials

Is there a recommended way of resizing VectorDrawables programmatically? Mark Allison wasn't sure of the answer so he endeavored to discover some tricks for doing this.

Jetpack is a set of libraries, tools and architectural guidance to help make it quick and easy to build great Android apps. It provides common infrastructure code so you can focus on what makes your app unique.

As Android continues to evolve, each new release of the OS brings new features, new user experiences, and better security. It is important that these new releases find their way to mobile devices as fast as possible.

Google has launched an early preview of the new Android extension libraries (AndroidX) which represents a new era for the Support Library.

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Google is open sourcing Seurat to the developer community. You can now use Seurat to bring visually stunning scenes to your own VR applications and have the flexibility to customize the tool for your own workflows.

Google introduces Android Jetpack, the next generation of components, tools and architectural guidance to accelerate your Android app development.

Google is making it even easier for app and web developers to get started with the Google Assistant.

The Dialogflow team has kicked off their 2nd year at Google I/O with lots of feature releases to help you build conversational experiences faster and smarter.

Google has announced several new features available in Firebase.

Machine learning will become an essential tool in mobile development. So Google introduced ML Kit in beta: a new SDK that brings Google's machine learning expertise to mobile developers in a powerful, yet easy-to-use package on Firebase.

Android Things is Google's managed OS that enables you to build and maintain Internet of Things devices at scale. After a developer preview with over 100,000 SDK downloads, Android Things 1.0 has been released to developers with long-term support for production devices.

After a long time, Fernando Cejas has decided to write again about Architecture on Android Applications. The reason? Mainly to share feedback from the community and lessons learned.

Over the past year, Hannes Dorfmann has helped established best practices for writing android apps. In this blog post, he talks about the Coordinator pattern and how we could apply this pattern to organize our in-app navigation code.

Maria Neumayer shares a few tips that can make your day to day work in Android Studio more fun and interesting  — with color.

In previous parts, Manuel Vicente Vivo talked about transferring stream of values and the Coroutines and RxJava interop library. In this article it’s time to compare how we can transform those streams with Operators.

Kevin Galligan takes a deep dive into Kotlin/Native threads.

Jobs

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Libraries & Code

Reactive Virtual DOM for Android

Seurat is a scene simplification technology designed to process very complex 3D scenes into a representation that renders efficiently on mobile 6DoF VR systems.

Library for executing .kts files from regular Kotlin code

News

Here's a new Google Photos partner program that gives you the tools and APIs to build photo and video experiences in your products that are smarter, faster and more helpful.

Google I/O 2018 has wrapped up, so here's a closer look at the major themes from the Developer Keynote.

Google continues to empower Android developers with new features in the Play Console to help you improve your app’s performance and grow your business.

Google announced the latest preview of Android Studio 3.2 which includes an exciting set of features.

Google unveiled a beta version of Android P, the next release of Android. Android P puts AI at the core of the operating system and focuses on intelligent and simple experiences

Google announces several updates to Android Auto.

Videos & Podcasts

Here are all session videos (including keynotes) from Google I/O 2018

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about Android KTX, a set of Kotlin extensions for Android development.