Android Developers

Read the blog post goo.gl/1DGJFL for all the details on building a DocumentsProvider and making files your app owns available to other apps through the Storage Access Framework.

Make sure you’re doing android launch screens for branding, not to hide a slow load time.

Since we launched the Family section on Google Play, developers have seen success growing their family-friendly apps and games businesses. Find out more at developer.android.com/families.

Hutch is a London based mobile studio focusing entirely on racing games, with more than 10 million players on Google Play.

One of the hangups of having an awesome, modern, complex mobile application is all the stuff you gotta do to get it working just so the user is happy.

As developers, there’s nothing we like more than an amazing Activity that delights and entertains our users.

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.

Veewo is a small game developer in China which now has 70% of all their users coming from the Android platform. Their recent hit ‘Super Phantom Cat’ gained 120K downloads within a week on Google Play.

Every quarter second a user spends staring at a blank screen, instead of interfacing with your app, is a quarter second more they are willing to close your app, and give their attention to something

Read the blog post: goo.gl/6rE8VM Direct Boot allows your alarm clock, messaging app, accessibility service, or any app with timely and important notifications to run immediately after boot

Based in Lisbon, Portugal, Hole19 is a golfing app that connects the golfing community with shared statistics for performance and golf courses.

Scoped Directory Access has been deprecated.

Money Forward, founded in Japan, allows you to manage your financial information from bank accounts, credit cards, through to loyalty points and bonds, all from a single app that is updated in real

Check out the newer WorkManager library, which is built on top of JobScheduler - goo.gle/2SLTK1A Metered connections have a real monetary cost associated with them for many users.

Culture Alley developed the app Hello English to help Indians learn English through gamification, supporting over 15 dialects.

You can display similar notifications in a group (previously called "bundled" notification).

StoryToys is a leading publisher of interactive books and games for children.

Read the blog post: goo.gl/ilTi3W Direct Reply allows you to receive text input from the user directly in the notification shade.

Learn up-to-date Android testing practices by checking out the new testing course material: Advanced Android in Kotlin Testing codelab course, lesson 3 - goo.gle/2SJfV8A Advanced Android in

Doze mode was introduced in Marshmallow and has been expanded upon in Android Nougat and now runs soon after your screen turns off, batching network access and jobs into regular maintenance windows.

Learn about rapid prototyping and conducting user research in this course from Google and Udacity! udacity.com/ud723

Choose and implement a monetization plan for your app in this course built by Google and Udacity! udacity.com/ud518

Develop a marketing strategy for your app in this course build by Google and Udacity! udacity.com/ud719

Picture-in-picture allows your Android TV video apps to keep playing while users browse more content within your app or within other apps.

Learn about best practices in Product Design and walk through the steps in a Google Design Sprint in this course from Google and Udacity! udacity.com/ud509

This is part of our three part video series which includes actionable tips and can learn best practices for developing, launching and monetising a high quality News app.

This is part of our three part video series which includes actionable tips and can learn best practices for developing, launching and monetising a high quality News app.

This is part of our three part video series which includes actionable tips and can learn best practices for developing, launching and monetising a high quality News app.

AliExpress (part of Alibaba Group) is a B2C marketplace which allows global consumers to directly purchase a wide variety of quality products from Chinese wholesalers & manufacturers.

Read the blog post: goo.gl/9AD0IC Multi-window opens up a lot of new possibilities, but designing for split-screen multi-window starts with a responsive UI (see our previous video on