Android Developers

Third party libraries can be some serious time savers for Android development. They allow us to do awesome things in our app without having to write any of the functionality ourselves.

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

From the Google Play Console, you publish your apps and games to the over 1 billion active Android users around the world.

Your app’s listing on the Google Play store is where most users will decide to install your app.

A navigation drawer is a navigation pattern designed to put content first but make navigation easily accessible. Learn how to implement a navigation drawer using DrawerLayout and NavigationView.

Independent developer Eric Froemling, created the game Bombsquad and using Player Analytics he was able to improve player retention and monetization of the game.

No matter how aggressively you’ve optimized your networking code for performance, there’s still a huge problematic performance issue that you haven’t seen: Bloated asset files.

SearchView is the standard interface for providing in app search for your Android app. SearchView is available via AppCompat and available back to Android 2.1.

Founded in 2010, Turkish mobile games developer Peak Games started developing games targeted to the local market and is now scaling globally.

One of the most frequent performance problems your users will notice is how your app reacts when moving from a great network connection to a bad one.

Google Cast enables users to send their favorite entertainment and apps from their phones and tablets straight to their TV.

Android TV brings a large screen, cinematic experience to Android apps. It runs the same Android operating system you already know and love.

Go where your users are: the living room! With Google Cast and Android TV, you can add a big screen and cinematic experience to your app.

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

Games developer Kongregate, founded in 2006, is a leading mobile games publisher specializing in free to play games.

The single biggest improvement your app can make for networking performance has to do with reducing the sheer number of requests made.

Learn how to get started with Android and Android Studio in this short tutorial. It demontrates how to install Android Studio (Google’s official Android IDE) and create your first Android app.

Our cars get us where we're going, while our phones keep us connected. Reach your users while they're out and about by extending your Media or Messaging app to Android Auto.

The Big Android BBQ (BABBQ) is a developer event like no other; an Android combo meal that delivers super-sized portions of education and entertainment.

Don't use the sledgehammer of the Storage permissions when there's a better way.

Do you test? It’s okay if you don’t - historically the tools had not been stellar. But they have gotten much better, and I am going to show you my favorite, instrumentation testing with Espresso.

Jenny Yuen is the Engineering Manager for Facebook's News Feed experience focusing on Android.

Co-presenting with Roman Birg. A dive into the open source Cyanogen Platform SDK. Adnan is an Android engineer with 5 years of experience working on the CyanogenMod Android platform.

Blending Material Design and motion into a new material that keeps the users entertained and delighted. Learn how to use Goop as a way to guide your users through the app.

Elevator pitch: When trying to prototype Android VR spaces, long build and debug cycles become a major impediment. Let's build a realtime sandbox toolkit for Android VR App developers!

Dr. Cohen oversees and directs innovation in this area while ensuring that medical ethics are preserved.

Our phones are so powerful, that sometimes we forget they are resource limited devices and rely on limited bandwidth, connectivity and battery.

Developing for wearable devices often means dealing with a very different set of constraints from a phone, ranging from minimal batteries, minuscule memory, and tiny displays.

Need more performance? Use the NDK. While that sounds like a reasonable statement, improper use of the NDK can actually hurt your application performance.

Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate for Android Wear, will give a technical deep dive on writing applications for Android Wear.