Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Joe Birch takes a quick dive into the newly announced Priority Buckets and how they will affect the behavior of your applications in certain circumstances.

Mike Wolfson shares his troubleshooting checklist in case you encounter similar build issues with the latest Android Studio

Mirek Stanek describes how to build a system for sentiment analysis of support requests using Google Cloud & Firebase.

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Ryan Harter created BillingX, a simple library that makes it easy to make mock purchases in internal builds with almost no code changes.

In this tutorial, Victoria Gonda teaches how to setup and use Google’s ML Kit in your Android apps by creating an app to open a Twitter profile from a picture of that profile’s Twitter handle

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Niklas Baudy had enough of constant copy-pasting Gradle scripts for publishing to Maven Central. In the end, he merged all of the possible variations into a Gradle Plugin that creates the "uploadArchives" task to publish your library.

In this blog post, Tyler Argo covers how to monitor the performance of code changes and future changes to ensure no performance regressions occur and undo all of your hard work!

Google has released a client library to make it easy to use Google Cloud IoT Core from Android Things devices.

The WorkManager API was recently announced at Google I/O. The goal of this library is to help simplify the way we handle background work. Annyce Davis describes how to move to this newer API.

After stepping back from React Native use, Gabriel Peal elaborates some newer replacements for what RN provided to make native app development more robust.

In this episode, the Fragmented team sits down with Caren Chang from June to talk about audio engineering for Android

Kevin Galligan writes about releasing an early-ish version of Sqlite for Kotlin/Native. More specifically, its a version of the Android SQLite stack that can be used in multiplatform projects.

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Libraries & Code

Generate 'onSaveInstanceState' and 'onRestoreInstanceState' methods for your application automatically

This library represents a Bottom Navigation with an awesome morph effect on top of the selected item

Gradle plugin that configures an uploadArchives task to automatically upload all of your Java, Kotlin or Android libraries to any Maven instance

News

Google announced the release of Android Studio 3.2 Beta.

Google has announced that they are now adding a small amount of security metadata on top of APKs to verify that the APK was distributed by Google Play.

Use the hashtag #IMakeApps on your social channels, sharing the app or game you work on, your role in its creation, and an image that best depicts who you are outside of work. Google will regularly select and share some favorites on their channels.

Videos & Podcasts

Playlist for all presentations from Android Makers 2018

Square engineer Pierre-Yves Ricau walks through the mental process involved in understanding a leak trace with a live app demo.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Isaac Katzenelson and Virgil Dobjanschi from the Android TV team.

Nate Ebel gives a quick walkthrough of how to create a new project in Android Studio that supports Kotlin, and what is added to your project to support it.