Carefully curated news for Android developers
Introducing Constraint Layout 1.1
By @Sean McQuillan
Constraint Layout simplifies creating complex layouts in Android by making it possible to build most of your UI using the visual editor in Android Studio…
How we brought down the size of our app from 31 MB to 2.6 MB and what it taught us
By @Irshad P I
Kotlin avoids entire categories of Java defects
By @Dan Rusu
This article looks at many categories of Java bugs that Kotlin prevents in addition to null safety. My first article provided a brief introduction to…
Introducing Android 9 Pie
By @Dave Burke
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/introducing-android-9-pie.html
Designing notifications for apps
By @Shashank Sahay
Explore different notification models and when to use which
Prefetch Text Layout in RecyclerView
By @Chris Craik
To layout text on Android, the system does a lot of work. Each glyph is resolved — dependent on…
Be Reactive: Develop your next app with RxJava
By @Hemant Joshi
Part I of the ReactiveX crash course on Android
Why do people still trust Cheetah Mobile in 2018?
By @Till Kottmann
Structured concurrency
By @Roman Elizarov
Today marks the release of a version 0.26.0 of kotlinx.coroutines library and an introduction of structured concurrency to Kotlin coroutines. It is more…
Releasing Android Apps Like A Pro
By @Aritra Roy
Previously, we have talked a lot about Android app development in this blog, but today let’s talk a…
Learning Android Development in 2018 — Part 1
By @Rajesh Pattanaik
Android: a 10-year visual history
Google’s Android operating system has undergone a pretty incredible metamorphosis since it debuted on the T-Mobile G1 on October 22nd, 2008. A decade might…
How we recreated Amazon Go in 36 hours
By @Subhan Nadeem
My colleagues and I wanted to create something that would make people go “wow” at our latest…
Animating on a Schedule
By @Nick Butcher
Animations in the Google I/O app
Fuck you Android Framework
By @The truth
Fuck you Android Framework for those horrible XML I have to write for each screen density. Fuck you for your useless layout editor that generates spaghetti…
Previewing Android P
By @Dave Burke
Looking ahead, today we’re sharing the first developer preview of Android P, the newest version of Android. It’s an early baseline build for developers…
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/previewing-android-p.html
Services. The life with/without. And WorkManager.
By @Yonatan V. Levin
What’s new in Android P Beta
By @Dave Burke
Posted By Dave Burke, VP of Engineering
25 new Android libraries and projects to check at the beginning of 2018
By @Michal Bialas
From Java to Kotlin and Back Again
By @allegro.tech
https://allegro.tech/2018/05/From-Java-to-Kotlin-and-Back-Again.html
Exploring the v28 Android Design Support Library Additions
By @Joe Birch
Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
By @James Lau
When using the Java programming language, one of the most common pitfalls is trying to access a member of a null reference, causing a NullPointerException…
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/android-pie-sdk-is-now-more-kotlin.html
Dagger 2 for Dummies in Kotlin (with 20 lines of code)
By @Elye
Spantastic text styling with Spans
By @Florina Muntenescu
To style text in Android, use spans! Change the color of a few characters, make them clickable…
Swift vs. Kotlin — the differences that matter
By @Krzysztof Turek
Many of you have probably seen this comparison of Swift and Kotlin: http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin/. It looks quite interesting, right? Yes, I…
Kotlin and Linear Programming Part I — Binary Programming
In November 2017, I spoke at KotlinConf proposing Kotlin as a data science platform. When I was planning the code examples for the presentation, there…
https://tomstechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/kotlinforoperationalplanningandoptimiza.html
Google is redefining mobile with artificial intelligence
By @Owen Williams
Why I Won’t Upgrade My Phone Until It Can Turn into a Magic Pony
By @Jessica Powell
The next generation of phones will…
#31DaysOfKotlin — Week 1 Recap
By @Florina Muntenescu
The more Kotlin code we write, the more we love it! Kotlin’s modern language features together with…
Rise of Kotlin: The Programming Language for the Next Generation
By @David Smooke
Drawing a Parallel Between Linux and Blockchain
By @Phil Zamani
What the history of open-source tells us about the…
A Guided Tour inside a clean architecture code base.
By @Yossi Segev
Google I/O 2018 app — Architecture and Testing
By @Jose Alcérreca
The Google I/O app is an open source project which shows the schedule and…
Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS
By @kotlindevelopment.com
https://www.kotlindevelopment.com/kotlin-multiplatform-in-action
Introducing Android KTX: Even Sweeter Kotlin Development for Android
By @Jake Wharton
The portion of Android KTX that covers the Android framework is now available in our GitHub repo. We invite you to try it out to give us your feedback…
25 new Android libraries, projects and tools worthy to check in Spring 2018
By @Michal Bialas
Android Open Source Project now includes the Fuchsia SDK and a Fuchsia ‘device’
Comparing APK sizes
By @Dharmin Majmudar
There are so many ways to make mobile apps ranging from direct platform specific development (using Java and Kotlin for Android, and ObjC and Swift for…
Mobile Patterns — UI UX Inspirational Gallery for iOS and Android
By @mobile-patterns.com
Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case
By @reuters.com
Android Studio 3.2
By @Jamal Eason
Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android
Drawing a rounded corner background on text
By @Florina Muntenescu
Let’s say that we need to draw a rounded corner background on text, supporting the…
What’s your text’s appearance?
By @Nick Butcher
Understanding how to declaratively style text on Android.
Understanding Android’s vector image format: VectorDrawable
By @Nick Butcher
Previewing Material Design 2.0
By @Raveesh Bhalla
I could (and probably should), wait a couple of weeks until Google I/O before publishing this post where I anticipate we’ll be hearing a lot about MD 2…
Live-Stream with Ilya Yashin, CEO of World Wi-Fi!
By @World Wi-Fi
Exploring Kotlin: useful standard library functions
By @Adam Arold
Java does not have them, so you might ask why are these useful? Ever wanted to return two values from a function? With Pairs, this is rather easy to accomplish…
Evolution of Android Homescreen and Navigation
By @E.K. Chung
A look at how key features of Google’s core mobile operating system have changed over the last ten years
World Wi-Fi weekly digest: a trip to Elbrus and new strategic partnerships
By @World Wi-Fi
Fragment Transitions
By @Chris Banes
Getting them working
AndroidX release: FragmentFactory (good) and deprecation of onRetainCustomNonConfigurationInstance (very bad)
Styling internationalized text in Android
By @Florina Muntenescu
In a previous article we talked about styling characters or paragraphs in Android using…
ATtention Spanned: Comprehensive Android Vulnerability Analysis of AT Commands
By @atcommands.org
Android’s Java 8 Support
A Roadmap To Become A Better Android Developer
By @Amit Shekhar
Android Tools Attributes — Hidden Gems of Android Studio
By @Orkhan Gasimli
Build awesome animations with 7 lines of code using ConstraintLayout
By @Leonardo Pirro
Jake Wharton — Android’s Java 9, 10, 11, and 12 Support
https://jakewharton.com/androids-java-9-10-11-and-12-support
LiveData with SnackBar, Navigation and other events (the SingleLiveEvent case)
By @Jose Alcérreca
A convenient way for a view (activity or fragment) to communicate with a ViewModel is to use LiveData observables. The view subscribes to changes in LiveData…
How we built the new GO-JEK Rider App
By @Anup Cowkur
This is a caterpillar:
Mastering Shadows in Android
By @Mert Şimşek
If we want to create better apps, I believe that we need to follow material design guideline.In general…
Introduction to MotionLayout (part I)
By @Nicolas Roard
MotionLayout is a new class available in the ConstraintLayout 2.0 library to help Android developers manage motion and widget animation in their application…
Mastering Android Themes — Chapter 1
By @Gaurav
Going FLOSS-only on Android
By @codingquark.com
https://codingquark.com/floss/2018/07/04/android-floss-life.html
Android Interview Questions Cheat Sheet — Part I
By @Anitaa Murthy
How Discord Renders Rich Messages on the Android App
By @Andy Garron
Scroll your Bottom Navigation View away with 10 lines of code
By @Valentin Hinov
How I drew custom shapes in bottom bar
By @Nour El Islam SAIDI
Recently, I received a design that contains BottomNavigationView. Until here everything is…
How I reduced my Android build times by 89%
By @Nishant Srivastava
This isn’t a click-bait article! I will explain how to make your Android build time…
Just give me a sharp knife Google! *
By @Danny Preussler
RecyclerView — More Animations with Less Code using Support Library ListAdapter
By @Craig Russell
ListAdapter is a new class bundled in the 27.1.0 support library and simplifies the code required to work with RecyclerViews. The end result is less code…
Get your app ready for foldable phones
By @Leo Sei
As you may have heard from the Android Dev Summit, we announced that we’re expanding support in Android to include Foldables, in preparation for upcoming…
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/11/get-your-app-ready-for-foldable-phones.html
LiveData beyond the ViewModel — Reactive patterns using Transformations and MediatorLiveData
By @Jose Alcérreca
The official Android Emulator is picking up support for Fuchsia’s Zircon kernel
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By @Vladimir Jovanović
As every Android developer, I also started building my layouts by hard-coding values into them. Later on, I…
A Self Taught Programmer’s Journey
By @Amit Shekhar
My transition from a Civil Engineer to a Software Engineer.
A few facts about Companion objects
By @David Blanc
One of the big changes that Kotlin brought to Java developers is the absence of the static modifier. Contrary to Java, Kotlin classes don’t really allow…
Why to choose MVVM over MVP — Android Architecture
By @Ankit Sharma
Implementing Google’s refreshed modal bottom sheet
By @Arthur Nagy
This year’s Google I/O introduced an improved version of Material Design to the curious public in Mountain View and across the globe. With the new release…
Single Activity: Why, When, and How (Android Dev Summit ‘18)
5 common mistakes when using Architecture Components
By @Michal Baran
Effective Java in Kotlin, item 1: Consider static factory methods instead of constructors
By @Marcin Moskala
Exclusive: Inside The New Google Podcasts Strategy That Could Double Audiences Worldwide
By @Steve Pratt
Why starting a new Android project with Java is a bad idea
By @Juhani Lehtimäki
I’m a programming language sceptic. i.e. I don’t jump on every new language and try to learn five new ones every year. When I find a good one I’ll stick…
Restitching Plaid
By @Nick Butcher
Updating Plaid to modern app standards
Polishing UI: Android StateListAnimator
By @Mert Şimşek
Most of the time, we don’t spend time to develop our Android app’s UI, we just drag and…
Build Android Apps in PicoLisp Without an Android SDK
By @picolisp.com
A year as Android Engineer
By @Lara Martín
Challenges of my first year working as a developer
The Missing Google Sample of Android “Architecture Components” Guide.
By @Philippe BOISNEY
Underspanding spans
By @Florina Muntenescu
Spans are powerful concepts that allow styling text at character or paragraph levels by providing access to components like…
Using Android Fragments in 2018
By @Daniel Novak
No, I’m not crazy. And yes — I know there are dozens of frameworks and approaches that are trying…
Android Emulator — AMD Processor & Hyper-V Support
By @Jamal Eason
Since the major revamp of the Android Emulator two years ago, we have focused on delivering a fast and feature-rich emulator to help you build great app…
A guide to the Google Play Console
By @Dom Elliott
Whether you’re in a business or technical role, in a team of 1 or 100, the Play Console can help you with more than publishing
Lessons learnt (the hard way) using Firebase RealTime Database
By @Pablo A. Martínez
Top Android Tech To Learn In 2018
By @Amit Shekhar
Kotlin Cheat Sheet
By @Marcin Moskala
As you know, Kot. Academy mission is to simplify Kotlin learning — we do our best to do it!
A Brief Summary of thoughts on Clean Architecture and MVP
Originally published in WahibHaq blog. Roughly 3 months ago I was going through a job search process for Android dev position and went through various…
Draw a Path: Rendering Android VectorDrawables
By @Nick Butcher
In the previous article, we looked at Android’s VectorDrawable format, going…
Java is too old, What should you learn in 2018?
By @Rajasekar Elango
Java has become legacy. It can’t evolve in to a modern language while keeping its backward compatibility. But it has given us a wonderful JVM ecosystem…
Awesome List Of Online Tools For Android Developers
By @Naveen T P
Mastering Android context
By @Gaurav
Context in Android is one of the most used and abused objects. But most of the articles on the web focus on the definition of what it is. I could not find…
Modern Android development with Kotlin Part 3
By @Mladen Rakonjac
It is really hard to find one project that covers all…
Mastering the World of Android Testing (Part 1)
By @Aritra Roy
Netflix Shows The Future of Android Architecture
https://www.techyourchance.com/netflix-shows-the-future-of-android-architecture
Introducing MvRx: Android on Autopilot
By @Gabriel Peal
The new framework for Android is fully native but eliminates 50–75% of product code.
Writing a modular project on Android
By @karntrehan
When we create a new project on Android Studio, it gives us one module, the app module. This is…
Become an Android Painter
By @T.Surkis
Deep dive into how custom views work and how you can create one.
How I made Ticket View — a Custom View for android
By @Vipul Asri
My favorite examples of functional programming in Kotlin
By @Marcin Moskala
Switching from iPhone 7 to Google’s Pixel 2 XL
By @Daniël van der Winden
Last October, Google announced a line of products that…
Kotlin 1.2.20 released
By @blog.jetbrains.com
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/01/kotlin-1-2-20-is-out
Kotlin coroutines vs RxJava: an initial performance test
By @Andrea Bresolin
The death of Presenters and the rise of ViewModels (AAC).
By @Mario Sanoguera de Lorenzo
Handlebars in UI Design
By @Shankar
A new kind of element which has risen in UI design
Deep Dive into Android Services
By @Nazmul Idris (Naz)
Android O, N and below component lifecycles and background tasks
Write Once, Run Everywhere Tests on Android
By @Jonathan Gerrish
At Google I/O this year, we launched AndroidX Test, part of Jetpack. Today we’re…
Kotlin Coroutines patterns & anti-patterns
By @Dmytro Danylyk
Decided to write about several things which in my opinion…
Android Design: Best Way To Show Progress using Shimmer Effect
By @Anurag Dhunna
A Better Way to Launch Activities on Android
By @Zak Taccardi
Single Responsibility + Kotlin!
Perks of being an Associate Android Developer
By @Cyril Pillai
Note: This is not a guide explaining the format of the exam or how to crack it…
PSA: Google Drive Android API/SDK will shutdown on December 6, 2019
Building a custom view — a practical example
By @Guy Griv
When you are tasked with implementing a unique design…
Often Ignored Stuff — Android Data Structures
By @Ankit Sharma
Android App Release Checklist For The Production Launch
By @Amit Shekhar
How to Create a Zen Experience on Your Android Phone
By @Chris Jennings
Take back control of your phone (and your…
Introducing Android Sunflower
By @Tiem Song
A gardening app illustrating Android Jetpack development best practices
On “From Java to Kotlin and Back Again”
By @zsmb.co
Immerse Yourself in the Android Developer Community
By @Tyler McCraw
30 summertime Android libraries and tools which you don’t want to miss in 2018
By @Michal Bialas
Make your custom view 60fps in Android
By @Dmitriy Rabetckiy
How often did you have to work with 2D graphics creating your own custom View? I’m sure in a…
Simple asynchronous loading with Kotlin Coroutines
By @Erik Hellman
One of the most challenging things in software development is anything that is asynchronous. Unfortunately, humans are really bad at multi-tasking. Just…
Android devices send data 10x more often to Google than iOS devices to Apple
By @macrumors.com
Adopting Kotlin
By @Tiem Song
Incorporating Kotlin in your large app
Loaders in Support Library 27.1.0
By @Ian Lake
For Support Library 27.1.0, I rewrote the internals of LoaderManager, the class powering the Loaders API and I wanted to explain the reasoning behind…
How I Switched from iOS to Android and I’m Enjoying It
By @Maciej Lipiec
This story is a follow up to my article How Apple is Crippling Its Old Devices with New Software.
Kotlin extension function generation 🚀…
By @Bartek Lipinski
here’s why it’s a game changer for Annotation Processing.
Android Apps Develop Fast(er) and Easier (saves 30 min daily)
By @Gopi Krishna
MVC/MVP/MVVM/CLEAN/VIPER/REDUX/MVI/PRNSAASPFRUICC — building abstractions for the sake of building abstractions (and…
By @Gabor Varadi
Publishing your Android, Kotlin or Java library to jCenter from Android Studio
By @Wajahat Karim
A detailed how-to guide on publishing your Android libraries on Bintray and jCenter
Providing a safe and secure experience for our users
By @Paul Bankhead
We focus relentlessly on security and privacy on the Google Play Store to ensure Android users have a positive experience discovering and installing apps…
Experimenting with Kotlin, the Architecture Components & Material Design
By @Philippe BOISNEY
Let me give you some context. I had this side project, CookMinute, a French app helping people to eat better, which I started just after my MSD 4 years…
5 Reasons Why N26 is Moving to Kotlin
Like any modern technology company, we use many tools to bring our banking platform to life. Many of our backend services, for example, are implemented…
Modality Is the One UX Concept That Most Designers Don’t Fully Understand
By @Fabian Sebastian
Bye bye Dagger 👋
By @Vasilis Charalampakis
When writing an Android application there comes a time, where you need to pick libraries. You always have in mind that these…
Gradle 5.0 released
StateListAnimator — a Powerful Little Tool for Elevation Animation
By @Juhani Lehtimäki
What’s new in constraint layout 1.1.0
By @Pankaj Rai
Constraint layout is certainly the best layout available for building a responsive UI — a…
The DICEGAME Team. Members
By @Team DICEGAME
People, who make it a reality.
Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the upcoming Android SDK (2007)
Constraint Layout performance
By @Maciej Kozłowski
My last article was about developers’ mistakes related with communication between Activities and Fragment…
Leaving Apple & Google: /e/ first beta is here!
By @Gaël Duval
I exchanged RxJava for coroutines in my Android application. Why you probably should do the same
By @Paulo Sato
RxJava is like a bazooka and most applications don’t use half of its firepower. Here’s how to change it to…
SQLite/SQLDelight ❤️ Kotlin Multiplatform
By @Kevin Galligan
A few weeks back I posted a piece about Mobile Oriented Architecture and how I think coding products for screens will evolve. At the end I said I was keeping…
Android Architecture Components — Room and Kotlin
By @ritesh singh
All the things we’re doing wrong but take for granted: a retrospective glance at Android development
By @Gabor Varadi
My Google I/O experience with Google and Udacity
By @Apoorva Tiwari
by Apoorva Tiwari
Exploring Jetpack: Scheduling tasks with Work Manager
By @Keval Patel
Android NDK: Using C/C++ Native Libraries to Write Android Apps
By @JetRuby Agency
Critical mistakes to avoid in Android development
By @Varun Barad
It’s time to ditch Loaders in Android
By @Daniel Novak
The idea of Loaders never really caught on. They were introduced with Honeycomb around 2011…
Why Should I Learn Android?
By @Oleksii Fedorov
You have firmly decided that you want to learn to create applications for Android using Kotlin. You are super…
Where We Stand & What’s Next for Kotlin
Andrey Breslav, the Kotlin project lead, gives an overview of what Kotlin is today, as a tool for developers and as an ecosystem. He then takes a peek…
https://academy.realm.io/posts/andrey-breslav-whats-next-for-kotlin-roadmap
Introducing Anchor Listener Support: Now you can get paid to podcast
By @Anchor
Starting today, any podcaster…
Android : Colors and Multiple Themes
By @Vinit Agrawal
Recently, we came across a bunch of Android projects which required a change of theme or…
Swift for Android: Our Experience and Tools
By @Readdle
Early last week, we launched Spark for Teams — a revolutionary email client that’s…
Introducing Smart Launcher 5
By @Vincenzo Colucci
After 2 years of hard work, today we are proud to announce the most important Smart Launcher update ever.
Hiding API keys from your Android repository
By @Varun Barad
Tiny guide to help you avoid leaking your API keys to…
Announcing new SDK versioning in Google Play services and Firebase
By @Doug Stevenson
Starting today, the Android SDKs for Google Play services and Firebase will be using a new build and versioning scheme. This may require some changes…
Build your Android app Faster and Smaller than ever
By @Jirawatee
MotionLayout + ShapeOfView = 😍
By @florent champigny
By using MotionLayout you can give a totally different and fluid style to your application. Forget…
ALC: Announcing Google Africa Scholarships with the Andela Learning Community
By @Chimdindu Aneke
We still believe the best investment you can make is in people.
Code Clean-up with Kotlin
By @Gabor Varadi
I haven’t written a full-fledged article since that article on Dagger in November! Clearly this can’t go on like…
Creating Android Game From Scratch With LibGDX(box2d)
By @JetRuby Agency
Simplify your Android code by delegating to sealed classes
By @Péter Pandula
Don’t you just hate having to religiously go through the same rituals when working with Bundles, Intent extras or SharedPreferences? Copy-pasting the same…
Android Tasks: Once and for all
By @Yash Soni
Tasks, Back Stack, Affinity, Intent Flags, and everything else
Building a video player app in Android (Part 1 / 5)
By @Nazmul Idris (Naz)
With ExoPlayer, Playlists, MediaSession, Audio Focus, PIP
Discontinuing support for Android Nearby Notifications
By @Ritesh Nayak M
Three years ago, we created Nearby Notifications as a way for Android users to discover apps and content based on what is nearby. Our goal was to bring…
Android has created more choice, not less
By @Sundar Pichai
Android Dev Summit
Save the Date! Android Developer Summit 2018 is coming to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on November 7–8, 2018. Registration…
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