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Android Developer Links (November 2016)

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Android Developer Links

3 min readDec 4, 2016

This is a list of Android-related resources, carefully curated over the course of each month. I try to make sure that the links that end up here, contain useful and always relevant information. The majority get suggested by the growing list of Android developers I follow on Twitter, others via Reddit, or various Android-related forums, etc. Please, welcome to suggest me interesting materials int he comments, or on Twitter.

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In the News

Win a full scholarship to become an Android developer

Udacity and Google are offering a limited number of full scholarships to help you become an Android developer.

www.udacity.com

Android Studio 2.3 Canary 2 is now Available - Android Studio Project Site

Android tools project information site

tools.android.com

Kotlin 1.1-M03 is here!

We are pleased to announce the third milestone of the upcoming Kotlin 1.1. This release brings new language features as…

blog.jetbrains.com

ConstraintLayout beta 4 is now available - Android Studio Project Site

Android tools project information site

sites.google.com

Android OS Now Available as an Amazon Machine Image 🎉

We’ve released the very first AWS EC2 instances for Android

medium.com

Android Studio 2.3 Canary Available - Android Studio Project Site

Android tools project information site

tools.android.com

Kotlin 1.0.5 is here

We're happy to announce that we've just released Kotlin 1.0.5, which continues the series of bugfix and tooling updates…

blog.jetbrains.com

Support Ended for Eclipse Android Developer Tools

With the release of Android Studio 2.2, the time has now come to say goodbye to the Eclipse Android Developer Tools. We…

android-developers.blogspot.de

RxJava 2.0 Final Release

ReactiveX/RxJava

RxJava - Reactive Extensions for the JVM - a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using…

github.com

Slides

Presentation: 10 Kotlin Tricks in 10(ish) Minutes

Kotlin is a new and popular language for Android development. Its major advantages and features are immediately…

jakewharton.com

Articles

An Introduction to Icon Animation Techniques

Creative customization is one of the tenets of material design; the subtle addition of an icon animation can add an…

www.androiddesignpatterns.com

Guide to ConstraintLayout

The other day I used the latest and still pretty new ConstraintLayout and wanted to share with you what I learn.

medium.com

The Quirks of Supporting SDK 25

The last developer preview of Android 7.1 has started shipping, which means APIs are (based on past experience) more or…

www.zdominguez.com

Developer Thanksgiving: Libraries & Tools We're Thankful For

It's that time of year where we in the U.S. reflect on what we're most thankful for. (And eat a lot of food, but that's…

realm.io

Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients

The open source library is able to export and play back high-quality, lightweight animations, such as the ones seen in…

code.facebook.com

Mastering the Terminal side of Android development

As a terminal aficionado I’ve been wanting to write about this topic for awhile.

medium.com

Pausing and resuming a stream in RxJava

Introducing the valve extension operator.

medium.com

Da Real Fragmentation - Sensors

In the previous post, we walked through Doze and App Standby modes, we mentioned the different types of Doze and when…

pguardiola.com

50 Android Studio Tips, Tricks & Resources you should be familiar with, as an Android Developer

The reason of this article, is to list helpful tips, tricks, shortcuts and resources for Android Studio that will…

medium.com

Understanding APK packaging in Android Studio 2.2

Posted by Wojtek Kaliciński, Android Developer Advocate Android Studio 2.2 launched recently with many new and improved…

android-developers.blogspot.de

Reactive Views: retrying errors

After having a good adoption of RxJava and clean architecture in our XING Android app codebase we’ve been lately…

medium.com

Bye, Bye Burger!

What we learned from implementing the new Android Bottom Navigation

medium.com

Finally understanding how references work in Android and Java

A few weeks ago I attended Mobiconf, one of the best conferences for Mobile Developers I had the pleasure to attend in…

medium.com

No Cause for Concern — RxJava and Retrofit Throwing a Tantrum

Last week, we found an interesting API design issue in the Throwable class of the JDK that led to bugs in RxJava and…

medium.com

Videos

Droidcon NYC 2016 Videos

Android Developer Links (November 2016)

Contents

In the News

Win a full scholarship to become an Android developer

Udacity and Google are offering a limited number of full scholarships to help you become an Android developer.

Android Studio 2.3 Canary 2 is now Available - Android Studio Project Site

Android tools project information site

Kotlin 1.1-M03 is here!

We are pleased to announce the third milestone of the upcoming Kotlin 1.1. This release brings new language features as…

ConstraintLayout beta 4 is now available - Android Studio Project Site

Android tools project information site

Android OS Now Available as an Amazon Machine Image 🎉

We’ve released the very first AWS EC2 instances for Android

Android Studio 2.3 Canary Available - Android Studio Project Site

Android tools project information site

Kotlin 1.0.5 is here

We're happy to announce that we've just released Kotlin 1.0.5, which continues the series of bugfix and tooling updates…

Support Ended for Eclipse Android Developer Tools

With the release of Android Studio 2.2, the time has now come to say goodbye to the Eclipse Android Developer Tools. We…

ReactiveX/RxJava

RxJava - Reactive Extensions for the JVM - a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using…

Slides

Presentation: 10 Kotlin Tricks in 10(ish) Minutes

Kotlin is a new and popular language for Android development. Its major advantages and features are immediately…

Articles

An Introduction to Icon Animation Techniques

Creative customization is one of the tenets of material design; the subtle addition of an icon animation can add an…

Guide to ConstraintLayout

The other day I used the latest and still pretty new ConstraintLayout and wanted to share with you what I learn.

The Quirks of Supporting SDK 25

The last developer preview of Android 7.1 has started shipping, which means APIs are (based on past experience) more or…

Developer Thanksgiving: Libraries & Tools We're Thankful For

It's that time of year where we in the U.S. reflect on what we're most thankful for. (And eat a lot of food, but that's…

Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients

The open source library is able to export and play back high-quality, lightweight animations, such as the ones seen in…

Mastering the Terminal side of Android development

As a terminal aficionado I’ve been wanting to write about this topic for awhile.

Pausing and resuming a stream in RxJava

Introducing the valve extension operator.

Da Real Fragmentation - Sensors

In the previous post, we walked through Doze and App Standby modes, we mentioned the different types of Doze and when…

50 Android Studio Tips, Tricks & Resources you should be familiar with, as an Android Developer

The reason of this article, is to list helpful tips, tricks, shortcuts and resources for Android Studio that will…

Understanding APK packaging in Android Studio 2.2

Posted by Wojtek Kaliciński, Android Developer Advocate Android Studio 2.2 launched recently with many new and improved…

Reactive Views: retrying errors

After having a good adoption of RxJava and clean architecture in our XING Android app codebase we’ve been lately…

Bye, Bye Burger!

What we learned from implementing the new Android Bottom Navigation

Finally understanding how references work in Android and Java

A few weeks ago I attended Mobiconf, one of the best conferences for Mobile Developers I had the pleasure to attend in…

No Cause for Concern — RxJava and Retrofit Throwing a Tantrum

Last week, we found an interesting API design issue in the Throwable class of the JDK that led to bugs in RxJava and…

Videos

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