Articles & Tutorials

Gabor Varadi tales an introspective glance at various gotchas with day to day Android development and proposes one (of possibly many) solutions.

Juhani Lehtimäki writes about how to use StateListAnimator to make your Material Design styled app just a little bit more delightful.

In this post, Leon Nicholls covers some of the most common Actions on Google errors, as well as provide strategies on how to make you a more efficient developer and make your Actions more robust.

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Android allows developers to add download functionality to their apps, but if you want to extend that behavior, or customize it to your liking — that’s not easy. That’s why a team at Novoda created an improved version of the Download Manager.

Márton Braun invites you on a tour of Kotlin’s type system, exploring how some of the language constructs we take for granted in our everyday use.

Victoria Gonda teaches the basics of test-driven development, or TDD, and helps you discover how to use TDD effectively when developing your Android apps!

This blog post explains when and how to generate remote notifications to provide timely updates to users and minimize battery drain.

In this article, Adrian Bukros guides you through the labyrinth of Kotlin Multiplatform and shows you how to create a simple example app to test out the capabilities of the technology.

In this blog post, Silvano Luciani talks about the different account linking options that Actions on Google now offers and cover some considerations you should keep in mind for each of them.

Lara Martín shares a great tip about how concise Kotlin constructors can really be!

In this article you'll learn how to run picture in picture video content with Exoplayer2.

In the final part Mark Allison completes his digit recognition app by hooking up the MLKit model.

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Design

Taylor Ling writes about all the design challenges that went into writing an app that encourages its users to learn, create good habits and improve themselves.

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Libraries & Code

Easily define a set of parameters that can be accessed and changed by the developers via built-in compact UI at runtime

Download manager based on AOSP DM but allowing downloading to internal private storage

Kotlin Multiplaform example app for iOS and Android

News

The stable release of AndroidX 1.0.0 is now suitable for use in production.

Videos & Podcasts

Huyen sits down to chat with Walmyr Carvalho, GDE and developer at 99, to talk about designing as a developer.

With the Android ecosystem growing in leaps and bounds, it can make it seem very daunting for developers, both new and old, to try and keep up with it all. Donn gives his 2 cents on this subject.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain about Filament, a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android (and Windows, Linux and macOS.)