Announcing Fragmented – A Podcast for Android Developers
Donn Felker introduces a new podcast for Android Developers hosted by Donn and Kaushik Gopal. It will include best practices, patterns, and guest Android developers
Android Studio / Eclipse ADT template for material-design-icons resources
Using Language Injections
IntelliJ IDEA makes it possible to work with islands of different languages embedded in the source code.
Floating Action Button – Part 3
Concluding article from Styling Android on mini actions affected by the state of the FAB itself
What is Functional Reactive Programming?
Josh Skeen from BigNredRanch introduces the benefits of FRP
Create data-driven documents with D3.js
Garry Smith speaks about D3.js and how to use it for vizualisations to get your message across
You think your app is ready for publishing? Well, think again.
Mark Bozac gives some great time-sensitive ingredients to help create a long-term successful app
Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.
Logan Square introduces JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.
Reducing your Android APK size When Using Native Libraries
A new release of Realm (0.79) brings major improvements on the size of Realm’s native libraries
Android Text to Speech
Francesco Azzola shows how to use text to speech (TTS) in Android
Replace AsyncTask and AsyncTaskLoader with rx.Observable – RxJava Android Patterns
Ross Hambrick shares his experience of working on projects that rely on RXjava as the primary architecture
Materialising the Domain Android App
Zarah Dominguez helps us to think about Materialisation in Android
parcelabler
Dallas Gutauckis shares his Parcelabler which easily auto generates Parcleable classes. Save TONs of time!
Building for Android Wear: Depth and Flexibility
Timothy Jordan shares an updated overview of the Android Wear platform
Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android
Josh Guilfoyle from Facebook introduces the new Stetho and argues for its cause
How-To Create a Working Kiosk Mode in Android
Andreas Schrade describes a list of powerful methods to implement Kiosk mode in Android
Android Studio 1.1 Released
This release (on the stable channel) is primarily a bug fix release, incorporating a much larger set of bug fixes than the previous releases
Scrolling RecyclerView – Part 1
Start of a new series from Styling Android looking at scrolling behaviour and oddities that may crop up (and options for fixes) in RecyclerView
SQLbrite
A lightweight wrapper around SQLiteOpenHelper which introduces reactive stream semantics to SQL operations.
Missing Android Material Components
Material design recipes that will make your app pop
Google Analytics – Best Practice for Android
A deep dive from Steve Albright on multiple Google Analytics trackers and how he keeps organized with all the data he collects.