Articles & Tutorials

Danny Preussler's opinion piece about how he wishes that Google would provide better tooling in some areas, or at least better guidance.

Zac Sweers announces a new async parameter that affects Android APIs 16 and newer, and can significantly improve UI performance when set to true if your app makes heavy use of RxJava+RxAndroid.

Vasilis Charalampakis and his team ran into various issues using Kotlin, Data Binding and Dagger together in a project. Ht describes how They decided to make the switch to Koin instead.

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A cautionary tale by Andranik Azizbekian, warning us to be careful when overriding Android framework methods in Kotlin.

Hari Vignesh Jayapalan describes the importance of Vector3 when using ARCore.

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Recently, Saurabh Arora needed to integrate Chrome Custom Tabs into an app. He wanted to warmup the browser and pre-render the content, but found the API somewhat cumbersome, so he created a simple wrapper in Kotlin.

Nick Felker shows how to play multiple sounds at once with Actions on Google using par tags in SSML.

Joe Birch made use of the Image Keyboard Support (IKS) functionality that was introduced in Android 7.1 which allows us to hook into the media functionality of keyboards and add media.

Benjamin Monjoie has discovered a new little secret regarding the layout property animateLayoutChanges: it's possible to easily animate child size changes too!

Nishant Srivastava teaches some cool tricks for working with the Gradle build system, such as autocompletion, using build-time variables, and reducing build time

In this second part, Mark Allison continues to look at how we can use MotionLayout to create a behavior similar to a Collapsing Toolbar.

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Design

James Williams shares a quick walkthrough for creating an animated vector drawable using the great ShapeShifter tool.

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Libraries & Code

Helpers of the Chrome Custom tabs re-written in Kotlin and with Architecture Components to offer a simpler API

Motif is a DI library that offers a simple API optimized for nested scopes. Under the hood, it generates Dagger code.

The Google I/O 2018 Android App

News

Francis Ma, head of product at Firebase, shares a few new products and features that will help you build better apps, improve your app quality, and grow your business.

Doug Stevenson announces the general availability of Cloud Functions for Firebase, as well as some additional new features.

Google has released the source code for the official Google I/O 2018 for Android app.

Videos & Podcasts

While at Chicago Roboto, Huyen catches up with Nick Cruz, fellow speaker and developer at Verily, and asks him about achieving concurrency in RxJava as well as the handiness of TestScheduler.

Donn talks about how you can get effective help with your coding problems with an SSCCE – a Simple, Self-Contained, Correct, Example

In this video, Nate Ebel shows how you can quickly locate all your breakpoints and control their behavior.