Android was built with the concept that almost every user interface element of an app should be customizable, allowing apps to adjust their look and feel to express their brand while keeping the common behaviors that users already understand. To support this…

This is the fourth roundup of my Android Studio Daily Tips that I post on Google+You can take a look at the previous post here.

a reliable way of positioning drawables within layer-lists

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RxJava’s use in building Android apps has grown rapidly! Combining and composing synchronous and asynchronous sources of data has become easy. That burden that remains is where to put the overall state of the application and how to handle its changes. This…

How would common "Gang of Four" design patterns implemented in Kotlin look like?

Support Library v26 comes with a lot of new features, specifically: fonts as resources and downloadable fonts, access to backwards compatible emoji support v...

In Retrofit 1.x I used the following pattern to create api service classes that simulated a bad network connection for certain build variants.

// Retrofit 1
private <T> T create(Class<T>

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If you’re an Android Developer and haven’t been living under a rock since Google IO’17 you’ve undoubtedly seen a lot of excitement and…

Since the launch of Android Architecture Components in a preview at I/O, many developers have been giving great feedback. In this video, Florina Muntenescu relays the latest Android Architecture Components updates and delves into some interesting use cases.…

 As far as I know, this is one of the most convenient method to transfer files between Android devices and transfer & install Android apps in apk format. If you want to transfer by using USB, not by Wifi see old post "Install Android phone's application to…

Updated ExoPlayer dependency to r2.5.1.
Updated support lib to stable build (26.0.1).
Switched from using MediaPlayerAdapter to ExoPlayerAdapter.
Removed exisitng ExoPlayer v1 code.

Bug: 31914822
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Migrated:. Contribute to googlearchive/androidtv-Leanback development by creating an account on GitHub.

Learn when best to use Android Custom Tabs for opening a URL in your Android app.

Because if you’re gonna have to do it, you may as well be great at it

Hello there! If you are an Android developer in a medium-large project you probably know the pain when it comes to wait for your slow build…