Once, I thought what if Android Studio had a feature to quickly create any custom button in a Menu or Toolbar without plugins, so I could…

Google has announced a new open-source project, Now in Android. In this article, you will cover the overall architecture, each layer, and…

Modularization of Gradle projects can ease a team's growing pains, but can also introduce challenges when architecting features that require knowledge of the specific modules used in an app. This post looks at approaches for dynamically aggregating dependencies…

If you have updated any application to targetSdk 33, you probably have seen that OnBackPressed() is deprecated in Activities.

Recently, while working on a project I got assigned a task. And the task was to build different product flavors for an android app using…

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Part II. Handy abstractions to mix in and code organization

When do you need to overhaul a large code base to address tech debt? What is the best way to address widespread inconsistencies and outdated patterns? How can you make significant architectural improvements to a complex application while still continuing…

In the first post about the Duplo initiative, we discussed the reasons for launching a project to revamp Slack’s mobile codebases, and what we accomplished in Duplo’s initial Stabilization phase. This post will explore modularization, and then there will…

In the first two posts about the Duplo initiative, we described why we decided to revamp our mobile codebases, the initial phase to clean up tech debt, and our efforts to modularize our iOS and Android codebases (post 1, post 2). In this final post, we will…

A quick rundown of Baseline Profiles

This tutorial teaches you how to move a view with animation when the keyboard appears or disappears. You can use this feature all the way back to API 21.

Protocol Buffers are language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanisms for serializing structured data.

Investigate performance issues or find out which implementation is best

Posted by  Anna Bernbaum, Product Manager, Ataul Munim, Developer Relations Engineer We are excited to announce the launch of the Tiles...

Don’t judge a UI by its cover!

Commit messages matter. Here's how to write them well.

These 10 free, open-source almost-unknown tools will facilitate your Android development process in 2022.

Here are the best Tips and tricks that would Improve your skills and speed as an Android developer

Want to improve screen launch times of your android app lazily? Lazy lifecycle callbacks can help you out there.