A compilation of materials for Android Lovers

Hello to all fans of Android development!

I, Mikhail Barannikov from e-Legion, collected materials for you to read, watch and listen about Android mobile development. Don’t we all have a lot of free time during these Covid times? Don’t waste it! Level up your skills.

For newcomers:

• Courses on Coursera
  https://www.coursera.org/learn/android-programming
  https://www.coursera.org/learn/android-programming-2
• Courses on Udacity
  https://www.udacity.com/course/gradle-for-android-and-java--ud867
  https://www.udacity.com/course/android-performance--ud825
• Kotlin
  https://kotlinlang.org/ and more specifically https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/

For theory lovers we have some books to read:

• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
• Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design by Martin Robert
• Kotlin in Action by Dmitry Jemerov and Svetlana Isakova
• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth — for those who like it rough
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
• The Clean Coder: A Code Of Conduct For Professional Programmers by Robert Martin
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Fred Brooks
• Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andy Hunt and David Thomas
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin
• Reactive Programming with RxJava by Tomash Nurkevich, Ben Kristensen

For code lovers:

• Plaid (https://github.com/android/plaid) — is an app made to demonstrate multimodularity
• Architectural samples from Google (https://github.com/android/architecture-components-samples) — let’s have a look, get inspired and try to create

For documentation lovers:

• Documentation is everything (https://developer.android.com/) — guides, codelabs, samples and everything that you may need at the beginning. And for everyday work there is always Javadoc

For article lovers:

• Medium (https://medium.com/)—a bunch of articles, you can start with https://medium.com/androiddevelopers and later search for what you like
• Android Developers Blog (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/), a blog from Google
• Kotlin Blog from JB (https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/)

For those who love to watch and listen:

• Android Developers (https://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers)
• Android Dev Summit 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jJ-e278BFY&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc_xXXubDti2eRnIKU0p7wHd)
• Look at the “conferences” section and search for recordings on YouTube

For lovers of architectural wars:

• MVP / MVVM / MVI / Clean Architecture — have a look at what types of architecture exist, how they differ and what tasks they solve

For library lovers:

• OkHttp (https://square.github.io/okhttp/) + Retrofit (https://square.github.io/retrofit/)— libraries for working with network requests. One can’t survive without them
• Dagger (https://github.com/google/dagger) / Koin (https://insert-koin.io/)) / Any other DI to your taste. Before using all these libraries, try to understand why you need DI so much
• Jetpack (https://developer.android.com/jetpack)—work with a camera, database, fragments, life cycle, navigation and much more from Google.
• RxJava (https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava)—reactive programming. You either love it or you hate it. You decide
• Kotlin Coroutines (https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines), an alternative to Rx for working with multithreading. For reactive programming you can use Flow
• AdapterDelegates (https://github.com/sockeqwe/AdapterDelegates)—adapters for RecyclerView through composition
• Epoxy (https://github.com/airbnb/epoxy) — if you want RecyclerView everywhere and for everything, here you go
• Kaspresso (https://github.com/KasperskyLab/Kaspresso)—excellent library for Android UI testing
• Android-Image-Cropper (https://github.com/ArthurHub/Android-Image-Cropper)—crop the photos the way you need
• Animations Compiletion https://github.com/Ramotion/android-ui-animation-components-and-libraries
• Mockito (https://github.com/mockito/mockito)—a library for unit testing
• Spek (https://github.com/spekframework/spek/)—make unit testing more convenient
• Cicerone (https://github.com/terrakok/Cicerone), an analogue of navigation from Google
• Zxing (https://github.com/zxing/zxing)— barcode scanning
• Gson (https://github.com/google/gson) / Moshi (https://github.com/square/moshi)—read JSON using annotations
• Lottie (https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-android), a super library for animations. You as a programmer have almost nothing to do. The designer draws and uploads to JSON, and you just need to import it into the project and be happy
• MPAndroidChart (https://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart)—a library for charts display
• Material-Animations (https://github.com/lgvalle/Material-Animations)—material animations, transitions and everything related to this
• DeepLinkDispatch (https://github.com/airbnb/DeepLinkDispatch)—a library for deep links

For infrastructure lovers:

• Gitlab CI / Jenkins / TeamCity — set up, watch and learn how to use it
• Integrations with Redmine / Jira / TestLink / Slack. Long live the gradle and its plugins, as well as CI plugins that simplify such integrations. You can always write your own plugin
• Docker — let’s increase in size to an industrial scale
• Weblate, an excellent resource for applications to support a lot of languages. It simplifies translations and allows translators and programmers to work together
• Checkstyle, Detekt, Ktlint, static code analyzers. Help you not to bother with the code style so often and concentrate on really important aspects of code review
• Auto tests, tests and life after tests. There are a lot of ways. And there is no common way I would recommend. Start small. Launch unit tests, then UI, and think how to use the received information in further development
• Jacoco, Sonarcube. Just take a look. It can come in handy for a few points above

For lead lovers:

• Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers by J. Hank Rainwater
• The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier
• The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What to Do About It, A New Paradigm for Management (Leadership Trilogy) by Ph.D. Adizes, Ichak Kalderon
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• On top of that, you should read about delegation, how to properly set up goals, conflict resolution and one-to-one meetings. This should be enough to start off with

For parties and conferences lovers:

Covid alert: buy beer, stay home and attend the conferences online, drinking beer with your perfect friend — YOUR COMPUTER 🤝

• MBLT Dev
• Mobius
• Team Lead Conf
• Apps Conf
• Google I/O
• Android Dev Summit
• Kotlin Conf

For admirers and for those who seek inspiration:

Dribbble (https://dribbble.com/tags/mobile) — check out what designers do. Swear $%#@$#@%&^. Exhale. Think how to implement it.