Android Developers

Android Studio 2.0 is focused on making your workflow faster. Faster builds, faster deployment, faster emulators. Everything. Faster.

Read the blog post: medium.com/@ianhlake/theming-with-appcompat-1a292b754b35 AppCompat ( developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html#v7-appcompat) gives you a consistent

When it comes to performance, there’s some stuff you can control, and there’s some stuff that you just have to be aware of, and work around.

If you want your app to get noticed, you gotta get in the game. The Widget game, that is. ( developer.android.com/design/p...) Widgets are literally a window into your app.

Wego is an online travel marketplace for flights and hotels for users in South East Asia and the Middle East.

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.

Read the blog post: medium.com/google-developers/snackbar-the-appropriate-interruption-ceb54d9be583 Alerts are pretty critical for communicating with your user.

Android Tool Time Protip: Maintain parallel Android Studio installations on canary and stable channels to take advantage of all the new hotness, without risking your stable dev environment.

Paris-based DJIT is the developer of music app edjing, which has more than 60 million downloads.

Season 2 of Android Development Patterns is around the corner, ready and waiting to give you another dose of the best practices and techniques you need to build better apps.

For mobile applications, serialized data is a large, and constant chunk of information that you pull from your servers.

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.

Recent versions of Android have significant advances in typographic sophistication, including automatic hyphenation, balanced and optimized paragraph layout, OpenType features, support for dozens of

It’s time for PERF THEORY: Batching Edition!

It’s time for PERF THEORY: Threading Edition! Because threads just may save your -life- app, but they also might spell your doom.

It’s time for PERF THEORY: Culling Edition! Culling is the radical new idea of avoiding unnecessary work.

It’s time for PERF THEORY: Approximation Edition! No one likes doing extra work for no reason. So why go for the 100%, when your users will give you a passing grade at 70%?

Google Analytics provides you with a wealth of information about the users of your app, information you can use to enhance your app and its marketing.

A well planned and executed launch sets your app up for growth.

Founded in 2010, SGN is a Los Angeles based mobile game developer.

You've built an Android app that's so compelling that it's sure going to bring you fame and fortune. Fame? Perhaps. But fortune? Where's the money going to come from?

It’s time for PERF THEORY: Caching Edition! Caching is the computing principle to rule them all.

Learn how to integrate Google Analytics into your Android app to get all kinds of data about how and where your app is used, and how many people use it.

Expanding your game to new user around the world is a great way to increase your revenue.

A money making apps starts with a quality app, however there is a lot that can be done to find a great apps true earning potential.

Accessible apps are key to making your Android app work for all users.

At Google’s “Take Your Parents to Work” Day, over 200 parents started building their own Android app. Many of them had no prior coding experience.

Tap4Fun is a Chinese games developer based in Chengdu which generates 55 percent of its total gaming revenue globally on Google Play.

Meet Google’s Women in Technology Advocate Natalie Villalobos and freelance designer Marie Schweiz at Big Android BBQ 2015 in Hurst, Texas where they discuss Marie’s career and industry insights.

Meet Google’s Women in Technology Advocate Natalie Villalobos and Android developer Stacy Devino at Big Android BBQ 2015 in Hurst, Texas where they discuss Stacy’s career and industry insights.