Articles & Tutorials

Scoped Storage introduces important changes to the way Android apps work with files. Fernando García Álvarez shows how we can rely on the Storage Access Framework for choosing files or folders and the MediaStore for media files.

Dependency injection (DI) is a technique widely used in programming and well suited to Android development. Google now provides documentation and guidance for implementing DI with Dagger.

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In this series of articles Joe Birch dives into each of the components that are available, exploring how we can utilize each of them within our applications.

In this blog, Amr Yousef looks at a couple of new additions in the latest release of the "androidx.fragments" library.

Jorge Castillo shares some words about how to theme views in code by the Context they’re inflated with.

Mark Allison looks at animating an icon named Plus/X from the “Actions” category of useanimations.com which transitions between a + shape and an X shape.

In this article, Jintin describes why he's moving from MVP to MVVM after 2 years of experience in MVP and provide his point of view.

Android 10 is greatly restricting access to external storage via filesystem APIs. This is the first post in a series where Mark Murphy explores how to work with the Storage Access Framework (SAF)

Donn Felker shares a couple simple rules for when it’s it appropriate to comment code.

In this codelab, you'll learn the importance of Dependency Injection (DI) to create a solid and extensible application that scales to large projects. You'll use Dagger as the DI tool to manage dependencies.

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Libraries & Code

A lightweight Android material bottom navigation bar library

So with certificate pinning falling out of favor, what should you do? The new kid in town is certificate transparency. Certificate transparency for Android and Java

News

Google is bringing back the Android Developer Challenge and asking you to help unlock new experiences on Android, and help inspire other developers around these emerging technologies.

Google shares an update on the progress they’ve made with Project Treble, an initiative to help manufacturers update devices to new versions of Android more quickly.

The Android team at Google shares a quick tour of Modern Android and the road ahead across our developer experience!

With Android support now available on most recent Chromebooks, Google is pushing developers to support larger screen sizes.

JetBrains announced a new plugin for IntelliJ IDEA/Android Studio that will provide you a better experience when it comes to finding and managing dependencies in your JVM project.

Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver for AMD Processors is now available for download via SDK Manager in the Canary channel.

Today at the Android Developer Summit, Udacity & Google released a free Android course: Advanced Android with Kotlin

Videos & Podcasts

Playlist of all the sessions from Android Dev Summit 2019

Videos of all the presentations from droidcon London 2019