Android Developers

Modifiers in Compose can be chained and the order in which we do so matters. But how exactly does it matter?

THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN DEPRECATED. New version here → goo.gl/WG2YaT We've introduced Android Jetpack!

With Android Studio 3.0+ the default tool-chain includes support for many of these Java 8 language features and usage of the jack tool-chain is deprecated.

Kotlin on Android has been moving at a whirlwind pace in the last year, with major improvements in APIs, build tools, and performance.

Users want content. Android TV offers a wide variety of paths through which apps can surface their prime content directly to the user, regardless of whether or not the user is in the app already.

Using AppBarLayout and Toolbar, your App Bar can be more than a fixed ActionBar: becoming part of your layout and reacting to scrolling.

Hear +WaynePiekarski (Wayne Piekarski) and +ryanseys1 (Ryan Seys) talk about bringing your Android app to Android TV in minutes.

App Links is a new feature of Android Marshmallow that brings a faster way of opening website links for domains that you own.

Join Nick Butcher and Roman Nurik for a live show as they discuss various elements of Android Design.

Join us for day one of the Android Dev Summit 2018! This livestream covers Theater 1. Tune in for deep technical sessions with the Android engineering team.

You know what screams out “This app is slow” ? A spinner. Especially one that sits around mocking the user while the activity behind it is trying to load UI data.

No network? No problem! Learn how to build an offline-first app. This talk will cover modeling, data access semantics, synchronization, and conflict resolution.

How to create custom Window animations to animate between different sub-activities. developer.android.com/shareables/devbytes/WindowAnimations.zip

Dive into what's new and learn the best practices for working with Navigation, given the changes in the Navigation Architecture Component since its first 1.0 alpha.

In this episode, Developer Advocate Murat Yener will dive into a highly requested feature, multiple back stack support for Navigation. Blog post version → goo.gle/3gq2PJm Repo → goo.

Services are an integral component of almost every android application. But the functionality they provide comes with a drain on battery and system resources.

One thing I like about Android... first time setup. Watch Android team members talk about their favorite features.

In this talk, you'll learn how and where to hoist state in Jetpack Compose. When should state be hoisted? Should that be in a composable function, plain state holder class, or in a ViewModel?

Learn the capabilities of ConstraintLayout, a popular library for UI development on Android, which addresses common pitfalls of and solutions to UI patterns, performance aspects, integrating motion

Join us for the Google for Games Developer Summit welcome remarks, then learn about how we’re making Android game development easier, growing the ecosystem of Android games running on more screens

Welcome back to the second episode of Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.

ProGuard keep rules are the super power in reducing application size. Correctly specified, they allow tools to remove unneeded code and obfuscate applications. But what exactly do these rules mean?

Watch interviews with developers at the Android stand, plus a day 1 recap of MWC 2012.

Data Serialization is an important aspect of every android application; but when it comes to performance, there's a right, and a wrong way to do it.

Object is a special class in Kotlin that only has one instance, which you can use to create Singletons easily.

Google Play Games on PC is growing rapidly and bringing an immersive cross-platform gameplay experience to players and developers around the world.

This week we’re starting a new series of videos and articles for Modern Android Development Skills on Motion Layout.

Jetpack Compose integrates seamlessly with other Jetpack libraries. There's no need to rewrite everything from scratch to start using Compose in your app.

How to achieve an accordion-like folding effect on a view. code: developer.android.com/shareables/devbytes/FoldingLayout.zip #devbytes #animations