Episode 2 | Android Studio
In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik talk about the official IDE for Android development – “Android Studio”.
Postponed Shared Element Transitions (part 3b)
This post from Alex Lockwood at Android Design Patterns continues an in-depth analysis of shared element transitions by discussing an important feature of the Lollipop Transition API: postponed shared element transitions.
First Steps with NFC in Android
Francesco Azzola describes how to use NFC in Android.
Android Studio 1.2 Preview 1 Available
Android Studio 1.2 Preview 1 has just been released to the canary channel. Please note that this is an alpha release, so expect to encounter bugs
Android 5.1: Unwrapping a new Lollipop update
Details on an update to Lollipop that improves stability and performance and offers new features like support for multiple SIM cards, Device Protection and high definition (HD) voice on compatible phones
Kotlin for Android (I): Introduction
Antonio Leiva introduces Kotlin , a JVM based language that could be a successor of Java for Android development
Adventures in Android: User Notifications
Everything you may need to know about user notifications
Shimmer effect for Android
Shimmer is a java library that provides an easy way to add a shimmer effect to any view in your Android app
Android 5.1 Lollipop SDK
As a part of the Lollipop update,Android are releasing the Android 5.1 SDK (API Level 22) which supports the new platform and lets you get started with developing and testing
Pocket Casts Updates To v5.0 With Beautiful Material Interface, Grab Bag Of New Features
Pocket Casts have a great example of how to use the new materia design update
Efficient WebGL stroking
The benefits of using a canvas such like API, relating to its stroking capabilities
shadow-layout
Android Shadow Layout
A new reference app for multi-device applications
Android Developers Blog explain how it is now possible to bring the benefits of your app to users wherever they happen to be, no matter what device they have near them
Evernote for Android Gets a Material Design Update
Jeremy Brand Yuan shows the new material design updated app for Evernote and explains the basics of what material design is.
Bidding farewell to Google Code
Google explains the rationale behind the closure of Google Code by early 2016 and how to migrate your data from it.
How to publish your open source library to Maven central
Scott Alexander-Bown explains how to publish your open source projects to Maven central
Courier
A delivery service for Android Wear. Courier uses the DataApi and MessageApi to deliver objects between devices simply and cleanly
Going multiprocess on Android
Sebastiano Gottardo looks at the possible hurdles in multiple processes in Android and gives some good practice advice
RecyclerView FastScroll – Part 1
New series from Styling Android about using FastScroll in recycler view
Release of UIAutomator 2.0
Android developers announce a significant update to UIAutomator