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This Weeks Links

Android Studio 0.5.1 Released
Version 0.5.1 of Android Studio has been released, which contains a handful of bug fixes for problems reported in 0.5.0.

Email Address Protip
Today’s AndroidDev Protip from Nick Butcher is about entering email addresses.

Google Cast Design Checklist Update
The Google Cast UX team has updated the Design Checklist to help you design great Google Cast Ready apps.  The Design Checklist will help you ensure your apps are consistent and predictable.

UXD: Three Steps To Awesome – Part 2 of 3 VIDEO
Today we’ve got a special two episode release for UXD with Nazmul Idris. This is part 2 and 3 of his series Three Steps To Awesome with guest Patrick Larvie.  These two episodes of UXD show you why user research is important, and how you can avoid 3 common pitfalls and create amazing mobile user experiences.

UXD: Three Steps To Awesome – Part 3 of 3 VIDEO
Here’s the second episode in today’s special two episode release of UXD with Nazmul Idris and Patrick Larvie in their short series Three Steps To Awesome. This episode of User Experience Design for Developers shows you why user research is important, and how you can avoid 3 common pitfalls and create amazing mobile user experiences.

Pixl Preview Android App
Pixl Preview lets you view your Photoshop® designs on your Android device in real-time.  Get an accurate look and feel of your designs the moment you’re making them, and instantly get an on-device image of all your iterations and tweaks.

Blurring Images – Part 4
Part 4 of the sample code on how to blur images in Android using RenderScript.

Jake Wharton’s pidcat
pidcat is a colored logcat script which only shows log entries for a specific application package.