Articles & Tutorials

In this post Pierluigi Rufo describes how he adapted the design for the Dark Theme on an app.

This blog post by GDE Magda Miu is the first in a new series on WorkManager. She starts with an intro to background work management on Android, and where WorkManager fits in.

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In this series of articles, Sebastiano Gottardo & David Lazaro walk you through the process of migrating to Room from a different ORM.

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Professional developer Lara Martín answers some Questions about technology, Software Development and careers.

Ryan Godlonton-Shaw shows how LiveData and MutableData handle the way data is delivered to the UI with reactive updates and is a much better way to handle API data than before.

Lyft engineer Matt Klein announces the preview release of Envoy Mobile, an iOS and Android client network library that brings the power of Envoy Proxy to mobile platforms.

In this article Daniel Bälz shows you how to migrate your Groovy build script to Gradle Kotlin DSL in just five simple steps.

Picking a dependency can be a tricky process. Ilian Konchev describes are few things that you should take into consideration.

Dionysis Lorentzos created some Rx puzzles to test how well you know RxJava's subscribeOn and observeOn. You will find all the answers at the bottom of the page.

Zarah Dominguez spent a lot of time figuring out why toolbar icons were not being tinted -- and it all came down to one attribute.

In this post Mark Allison takes a look at what HEIF images are, and explains a little about the benefits that it might offer.

Android Jetpack houses what is known as the Preference Library. Joe Birch takes a dive into Preferences so that we can see what is available and how we can implement it into our applications.

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Libraries & Code

Envoy Mobile brings the power and consistency of Envoy Proxy to the iOS and Android platforms, providing a ubiquitous API and abstraction for mobile application networking.

PrimeDatePicker is a date picker tool which provides picking a single day in addition to a range of days.

Videos & Podcasts

In this episode, Donn talks about Kotlin Lambda Expressions.

Videos of presentations from mDevCamp 2019

In this video CodingWithMitch talks about Retrofit caching and why (in his opinion) you shouldn't use it.

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Events

The 6th edition of droidcon New York City will take place August 26-27th, 2019! Come and learn from the top thought leaders in Android. This year will feature over 70 technical Android talks, workshops & codelabs by best-in-class speakers from around the world.