With Android Data Binding support — Inspired by Matt Precious’s lecture — Don’t Fear the Canvas we have decided to implement Avatar View with Android data binding support. There are many libraries that offer creating rounded avatars, but as far as I know there aren’t any which have built-in placeholder feature. …

Including code examples and working project — Probably every Android developer is using or at least heard about RxJava. Currently, there are lots of libraries that use the reactive approach, let RxPreferences, RxLocation, RxPermissions, RxWear, RxBinding serve as an example. But let’s go back to the beginning. Here at Tango we are using RxJava in every Android…

You want to write an app which will be used by thousands of users, but according to the fortune.com article, less than 25% of users will open your app more than once. So how can you increase the retention rate? Try to engage every user — with an Intro Screen. …