Articles & Tutorials

Cloud Save – Part 2 (blog.stylingandroid.com)
Part 2 of Mark Allisons Cloud Save tutorial series.

Cloud Save – Part 3 (blog.stylingandroid.com)
Part 3 of Mark Allisons Cloud Save tutorial series.

Headless Fragments (www.vogella.com)
Lars Vogel has updated his Fragments tutorial where he explains how to use headless retained fragments to handle configuration changes in Android applications.

Fused location provider example (www.kpbird.com)
The Fused Location Provider intelligently manages the underlying location technology and gives you the best location according to your needs. Ketan Parmar has published a blog post how the fused location provider can be used in an example application.

ListView Hybrid Choice Behavior (curioustechizen.blogspot.com)
In this post Kiran Rao explains how to implement a ListView that has a tap to open a single item and a long-tap to choose multiple items to perform a common action on them.

Migrating Your Android App to Android Studio (blog.newrelic.com)
Jason Snell has written a post that explains all the steps that are necessary to migrate your Android app from Eclipse to Android Studio.

Mobile Backend Starter (developers.google.com)
The mobile backend starter sample provides a ready-to-deploy, general purpose cloud backend and an Android client providing general purpose client-side framework classes. So if you are unfamiliar with backend development this might be your thing.

GlobalView Head (abhan.github.io)
Facebook recently released a new feature in Messenger called Chat Head. It is generally used to notify user using a view which tops among all opened application and provide latest information to the user. This post explains how such a behavior can be archieved.

Libraries & Code

FlowTextView (code.google.com)
A TextView which extends RelativeLayout. The text will wrap around any child views inside the layout.

StyledDialogs for Android (github.com)
This library makes styling and using dialogs a piece of cake.

Selendroid (selendroid.io)
Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives of the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps). Tests are written using the Selenium 2 client API. Selendroid can be used on emulators and real devices and can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing.

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