Google Color Pallete
Tutorial from Google on primary and accent colors
Google app update: get Now cards from your favorite apps
Now cards in the Google app give you relevant information at the right time, without you having to ask for it
How To: Draw on Top of Other Applications
Coding Shark shows us how to draw anything on top of other applications inspired by Facebook’s Messenger chat application
The fallacy of the ‘Android tablet app’
JR Raphael, writing for Computerworld comments on this issues surrounding designing specific apps for Android Tablet
Introducing a new <tag /> XML tag to attach info to Android Views
Cyril Mottier discussing how to attach information to a View
Android Location API using Google Play Services
Ravi Tamada explains how to use the new Google Play service for device location
App Testing Service
Amazon’s app testing service allows you to test your app to identify potential issues with your app’s compatibility on Android, Kindle Fire and Fire Phone devices
How to Easily Display the Android Device Calendar Events in Your App
Kiril Stanoev, a Product Manager for Telerik gives us a sneek peek into the features available with the new release of the Calendar control for Android
Study Jams- Android Fundamentals
Google Developers Study Jams is a free series of global, community-run, in-person study groups
Making live wallpaper apps respond to touches correctly
Andras Kindler explains how to make live wallpaper apps scroll properly on all Android devies
Introduction: what the hell is Dagger and how can I benefit from using it?
In his blog, Konstantin Mikheev introduces Dagger (a Java library that provides an alternative way for objects instantiation)
Android Maven Plugin 4.1.1 released
Manfred Moser outlines the changes and updates in the latest Maven plugin
A Look At Android Support Annotations
Anup Cowkur digs into the latest version of the Android support library
Trulia sees 30% more engagement using notifications and further innovates with Android Wear
Laura Della Torre from the Google Play team comments on Trulia’s success with Android Wear
Designer’s guide to DPI v2
Sebastien Gabriel’s guide, aimed at starter to intermediate deisgners, on cross-DPI and cross-platform design from the beginning
Android Studio 1.1 Beta Available
Android Tools Project Site release Beta 4, the first build to be promoted to the beta channel
Unit testing support
Version 1.1 of Android Studio and the Android gradle plugin brings experimental support for unit testing your code
The Google Maps API is broken on Android 5
Afik Cohen shows a workaround for multiple map fragments
Make a Snake game for Android written in Python – Part 1
Alexis Matelin explains how to code and deploy a simple ‘snake game’ app on Android
An exploration in Material Design
Arthur Bodolec, design co-founder at feedly explains how Lollipop introduces some major changes, and a new visual language called Material Design
Floating Action Button – Part 2
Moving forward from their first How To, Styling Android refine their process to include animating the icon to toggle between two states
Configuring Android Studio: IDE & VM Options, JDK, etc
Android Tools Project Site explain how to configure Android Studio for IDE and VM options
How to check Wi-Fi channels on Android devices
Eric Geier tells us the apps and the benefits of checking Wi-Fi channels on Android.