Android Resources

The best Android resources from all over the web, gathered.

• aritraroy/UltimateAndroidReference: Ultimate Android Reference - Your Road to Become a Better Android Developer

Resources

• Android Documentation - AND Broadcast - Udacity Discussion Forum (discussions.udacity.com)
• Preparing your Android Environment for development — Android Tutorials pt. 1 – Medium (medium.com)
• Learn Date and Time in Android - CodeProject (www.codeproject.com)
• How To Use Android Studio Like a Pro!
• Automating play store screenshots for fun and additional testing · lambdasoup (lambdasoup.com)
• Eight Ways Your Android App Can Leak Memory (blog.nimbledroid.com)
• Leaner APKs with asset minification (www.novoda.com)
• afollestad/material-dialogs: A beautiful, easy-to-use, and customizable dialogs API. (github.com)
• 30 Resources for Android Developers (Udacity)
• Android Developers (developer.android.com)
• Introduction to Android development with Android Studio - Tutorial (www.vogella.com)
• Android Tutorial (www.tutorialspoint.com)
• Home | CodePath Android Cliffnotes (guides.codepath.com)
• Using the Material Theme | Android Developers (developer.android.com)
• Material Design (www.materialdoc.com)
• Material Design, Daily – MaterialUp (www.materialup.com)
• Material icons - Google Design (design.google.com)
• Icons - Style - Google design guidelines (www.google.com)
• Android Asset Studio (romannurik.github.io)
• Material Design Color Palette Generator - Material Palette (www.materialpalette.com)
• Color - Style - Google design guidelines (www.google.com)
• Everything you need to design Android apps — Medium (medium.com)
• Recently Active ‘android’ Questions - Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)
• Utveckling och projekt | Swedroid forum - Nordens största Android-community (www.swedroid.se)
• Android Niceties (androidniceties.tumblr.com)
• Android Experiments (www.androidexperiments.com)
• Android App Patterns (www.android-app-patterns.com)
• Genymotion – Fast And Easy Android Emulation (www.genymotion.com)
• Log In – Genymotion Android Emulator (www.genymotion.com)
• Bluestacks - The World’s Largest Mobile Gaming Platform on PC (www.bluestacks.com)
• Android emulator shows nothing except black screen and adb devices shows “device offline” - Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)
• Code Style for Contributors | Android Open Source Project (source.android.com)
• DPI love ♥ Easily find the DPI/PPI of any screen (dpi.lv)
• labs.rampinteractive.co.uk/android_dp_px_calculator/ (labs.rampinteractive.co.uk)
• Android Visualizer (labs.udacity.com)
• Common Android Views Cheat Sheet (labs.udacity.com)
• Layout Cheat Sheet (labs.udacity.com)
• Android for All  |  Google Developers (developers.google.com)
• Application Fundamentals | Android Developers (developer.android.com)
• Android Development for Beginners: How to Make Apps | Udacity (www.udacity.com)
• Control the Emulator from the Command Line | Android Studio (developer.android.com)
• Structure - Layout - Google design guidelines (www.google.com)
• Supporting Different Screens | Android Developers (developer.android.com)
• Material Design Icons (materialdesignicons.com)
• Android Material Design Colours (gist.github.com)
• unit-1/7_Android-Lifecycle.md at master · accesscode-2-1/unit-1 (github.com)
• A beginners guide to an effective Android testing strategy | David Guerrero’s blog (davidguerrerodiaz.wordpress.com)
• Top 5 Android libraries every Android developer should know about Infinum (infinum.co)
• How to avoid headaches with Android themes and styles - SUPENTA Blog

Data-binding

• Android Data Binding
• Android Data Binding: The Big Event (medium.com)
• Android Data Binding: Let’s Flip This Thing (medium.com)
• Writing Testable Android MVVM App: Part 1. ViewModel (medium.com)

Architecture

• Effective Java for Android (cheatsheet). – RockNNull – Medium
• Android Architecture: MVP or MVVM or Something Else - Viblo

MVVM

• MVVM with Data Binding on Android - The Programming Corner (srodrigo.me)

MVP

• Restoring state in Android MVP architecture - Inside PSPDFKit
• Your presenters don’t need all those lifecycle events – Medium
• MVP – Mosby

Animation

• Animated icons on Android
• Animation: Jump-through
• How we design a beautiful animation · Jeremie Martinez
• An Introduction to Icon Animation Techniques - Android Design Patterns
• alexjlockwood/adp-delightful-details: This is the sample app corresponding to my blog post about icon animations.
• alexjlockwood/ShapeShifter: SVG path morphing animation editor

Libraries

• Discovering Android API (blog.autsoft.hu)
• Build flexible layouts with FlexboxLayout - Android Developers Blog

Http

• For REST APIs, use Retrofit
• For other purposes, use OkHttp

• Build Uri:s with buildUpon()

• JSONObject

Images

• For the latest and best regarding memory, use Fresco
• For the most stable and approved, use Glide

Material Design

• Eight don’ts for your Material Design app (blog.prototypr.io)
• Keyline Pushing - Android Apps on Google Play (play.google.com)
• Material Cue - Android Apps on Google Play (play.google.com)

Layout

ConstraintLayout

• Guide to ConstraintLayout – Medium

FlexboxLayout

Build flexible layouts with FlexboxLayout - Android Developers Blog

Custom views

• Android: draw a custom view – Medium

Testing

• Simple unit tests for Android - Blog

Various tips

Intents

• Check to see if the intent can be resolved using resolveActivity
• Share using the ShareCompat library