At Google I/O 2017, the Android Framework team announced the new Android Architecture Components. Namely ViewModel, LiveData and other…

All about custom Views and their uses.

Extended and revised from the original talk given in the Twin Cities.

Learn how Android Studio, the Android Support Library and Google Play can help you reduce your app size by using new tools and following simple best practices. Users are more likely to download an app and keep it on their device if it has a small download…

SubscribeOn and ObserveOn, two concepts that eludes most Rx beginners .

This blog post explains our reasoning and motivation behind choosing RxJava as one of the integral components in our new Java SDK. Motivation There are many ways to design an API and every one has its own set of benefits […]

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

Contribute to blennerSilva/AwesomeDialog development by creating an account on GitHub.

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>

Contribute to googlesamples/android-Camera2Video development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.…