Articles & Tutorials

Handling bundles in activities and fragments (blog.petrnohejl.cz)
This article explains how bundles are used with activities or fragments.

Wait for It…a Deep Dive in Espresso's Idling Resources (stefanodacchille.github.io)
Here's anarticle on how you can tell Espresso to wait for an async computation to finish before performing any actions on a View.

Generating preloaded sqlite data (mytechaddiction.blogspot.com)
This article shows how to prepare a pre-built sqlite file, ship it along with your app and load it the first time the db is opened

Integrating an Android Github repo with Travis CI (gmariotti.blogspot.com)
Gabriele Mariotti shows how you can build your Android library on GitHub using Travis continuous integration services.

Better VideoView loading indicator (plus.google.com)
Arne Stockmans shows a better way to show a loading indicator while waiting for a video to start streaming from a remote server.

Handling bundles in activities and fragments (blog.petrnohejl.cz)
Here are some nice techniques for passing initialization data among activities and fragments.

Protip: Syntax highlighting everyw (plus.google.com)
Here's a tip from Lisa Wray to help copy code with syntax highlighting.

Sponsored

Design

A Look at Avatars in Google Play App (plus.google.com)
Kirill Grouchnikov from the Google Play team dissects the decisions and development that went into the new Google Play social sharing.

Jobs

Sr. Android Engineer @ Etsy (Brooklyn, NY)
Etsy is seeking Senior Android Engineers to join a small, collaborative team that’s responsible for the end-to-end development of our Android apps for smartphones and tablets — supporting our long-term vision of bringing Etsy to every mobile device. This full-time position is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Libraries & Code

Infinite ListView (github.com)
DobLis is an Open Source Android library that provides to ListView adding ProgressBar (or any view) to the footer of ListView to be shown in loading more, and callback that is called when reaching last item in ListView.

Android Bluetooth SPP Library (github.com)
This library includes all important methods for serial port profile on bluetooth communication. It has built-in bluetooth device list.

ChromaHashView (github.com)
Chroma-Hash is a concept for visualizing secure text input using ambient color bars. Password entry can be frustrating, especially with long or difficult passwords.

GmailLikePullToRefresh (github.com)
What can we say more: It's a Gmail like pull to refresh implementation.

RefreshMenuItem (github.com)
Menu item to show an indeterminate progress in the Android ActionBar.

StartPointSeekBar (github.com)
StartPointSeekBar is a custom view for the Android platform that makes it possible to have a SeekBar to have custom start point.

UpdateChecker (github.com)
Increase your app's updates by showing a modal dialog when an update is available.

AndroidStudioTemplate (github.com)
A small collection of Android Studio templates for Android development.

News

Business

The Fallacy Of Android-First (techcrunch.com)
A failstory on how a developer did Android first with their app. Lots of the problems are specific to their use case (SMS / MMS integration) - but nonetheless it's an interesting read if you're deciding Android or iOS first.

Videos

Learn how to performance tune an Android application (youtu.be)
This presentation gives a hands on lesson on how to use all the android tools available in order to performance optimize a badly performing application.

Specials

AnDevCon Boston (andevcon.com)
AnDevCon, May 27-30 in Boston, is the world's top Android apps event. Free expo. Use code ANDROID for $200 discount