Building Android Apps – 30 things that experience made me learn the hard way

Great article about tips and tricks in Android development.

It will make your life easier:
– package by feature, not layers
– lint your views to optimize the layouts
– how to speed up Gradle
– think about ditching PNGs for SVGs
– ...

Read more: https://goo.gl/iai80D

#tips
@android_united

Example of animations that could be created with Shape Shifter

Shape Shifter – web-app that simplifies the process of creating SVG-based path morphing animations for Android.

Features:
– upload 2 SVGs and get the transition between them
– create transitions even between incompatible SVGs
– edit points of any path by simple dragging
– export the results to AnimatedVectorDrawable

Read more: https://goo.gl/7ZI9wl
Try to use: https://goo.gl/Dy8VFd

#UI #animation

ChatKit – simplify the development of UI for chat.

Easy to style, customize and manage your data: https://goo.gl/tUoMkm

#ui #lib

Realm Mobile Platform – easily create offline-first reactive mobile apps. It's simple, lightweight and easy to integrate.

I discovered Realm Mobile Platform two weeks ago and still can't stop thinking how amazing would be to use it for my projects. Check it out!

Features:
– one of the fastest databases for Android
– real-time data sync among apps and backend
– shared objects and database among clients and backend
– based on objects (no JSON and REST API anymore)
– conflicts resolution from the box
– beautiful dashboard with insights about your data

Read more: https://goo.gl/jeESSi
How to start: https://goo.gl/rUAbw5
Presentation: https://goo.gl/OKjV9J

#tips #DB
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PanoramaImageView – ImageView that can scroll when user rotate device (like sphere panorama from Google Photos).

Read more: https://goo.gl/0k5IeB

#UI #lib #animation

Android Asset Studio — collection of tools to easily generate assets such as launcher icons for your Android app.

New version available:
https://goo.gl/01J8oM

#ui #animation

DEPTH LIBRARY – #1 in my personal list of apps for custom animation and views.

Read more: https://goo.gl/zjHcFu
Google Play: https://goo.gl/7UUcSc
Github: https://goo.gl/uSyMng

#UI #animation #lib

Android Studio 2.3 released

Features:
– faster build
– new Instant Run
– new UI for XML editor
– material icon wizard update

Read more: https://goo.gl/hJajQK

#android_studio
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CameraKit — extraordinarily easy to use utility to work with Android Camera and Camera2 APIs.

GitHub: https://goo.gl/NI7N9e
Google Play demo: https://goo.gl/bi6IBT

#UI #lib
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MVP Architecture

Today I will show you the simple explanation one of the most used architecture for Android.

Part 1 – https://goo.gl/RkDitp
Part 2 – https://goo.gl/QsNexP

#architecture

A memory leak detection for Android.

– fix memory leaks on early stage
– reduce OutOfMemory crashes
– make your app more stable

Github: https://goo.gl/Bil03y
Read more: https://goo.gl/U55uFM

#lib

Android programming moving to reactive. Use the best tools to understand Rx world.

Operators: https://goo.gl/DRO00A
RxMarbles: https://goo.gl/lhYmCx
Android app RxMarbles: https://goo.gl/3zpBBZ

#rx

Android Studio 2.4 Preview 1 released

Features:
– new lint checks
– faster incremental builds
– dependency resolution at execution time
– Device File Explorer

Check it: https://goo.gl/P8UmBV

#tool

This podcast is about building good software and becoming a better Android developer.

Topics:
- best practices
- popular tools
- best developers as the guests

Episodes: https://goo.gl/vZewKS

#tips

From Design to Android

We love examples of beautiful UI on Dribbble but sometimes it's hard to implement it properly.

Discover how: https://goo.gl/JLNZ9n
Code: https://goo.gl/0uwBDe

#ui #animation

Android O is here!

An early look at the next version of Android. Get your apps ready for Android O!

What's new:
– Improving battery life and performance
– Notification channels
– Easy login with Autofill APIs
– Picture in Picture
– Font resources in XML
– Adaptive icons
– Java 8 Language APIs

Read more: https://goo.gl/OV00ZV
New APIs: https://goo.gl/n1MQ1L

#android

Android Fingerprint Authentication – simple, secure and fast as hell.

Read more: https://goo.gl/g81Tp9
Github: https://goo.gl/pbsRrh

#security

Cicerone — lightweight library that bring easy navigation to Android app.

- lifecycle-safe
- is not tied to Fragments
- functionality is simple to extend

Github: https://goo.gl/ZG9M94

#navigation

Device metrics – library of devices from Google.

It provides the list of most used devices with a comprehensive metrics denoscription.

material.io/devices/

#tools #tips

Android "launchMode" is must-know topic for all Android Developers.

Simple [visualized]: https://goo.gl/0mNfXJ
Deeper [visualized + code]: https://goo.gl/uSD3pY

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