Product Flavors for Android Library

Product flavors is a powerful feature of the gradle plugin in Android Studio. Several developers use it to create free/paid or full/demo versions, releasing customized versions of their product.

AnimatedVectorDrawableCompat

A simple step-by-step solution to actually make it work.

400% faster layouts with Anko

I’ve been playing with Anko for a while now and I was curious what advantages Anko offered. So I did some performance tests.

Multiple row types in RecyclerView

Sooner or later every Android developer will face a problem of including few xml row layouts in one RecyclerView like this:

Writing custom lint rules and integrating them with Android Studio inspections, or @CarefulNow @DownWithThisSortOfThing

Last week I was working on a piece of code and ended up creating a convoluted, hard-to-debug infinite loop. I managed to fix…

15 Mobile KPIs Every Developer Needs to Measure…Right Now

Configure Build Variants with Flavors

Banana, blueberries, cherry, coffee, cream. These are all great ice cream flavors! Especially…

Firebase App Indexing for Personal Content— Getting Personal Content into Search

Solving the issue of mobile app battery drain

Battery-heavy mobile apps are the ultimate user experience killers. They limit…

How to Save Time with Code Templates for Android?