How To… Speed up Gradle build time

https://www.timroes.de/2013/09/12/speed-up-gradle/

#gradle

New android layout manager was presented and pushed to the official Google Github. It offers similar behaviour to the CSS flexible box layout module. In this series we’ll take a look at FlexboxLayout and try and gain some insights in to how it works and how to get the best out of it.

https://blog.stylingandroid.com/flexboxlayout-part-1/

Google I/O 2016 - Keynote live stream kicks off in 1 hour.

http://google.com/io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFm4s50PnmY

#GoogleIO

Access your Google Play Developer Console data from your Android device.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.playconsole

#app

All Android sessions at Google I/O 2016

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc8jQTUYvIfqA9lMvSGQWtte

#GoogleIO

Android Developers: Google I/O 2016 recap

Google I/O 2016 took place May 18–20th and while a new hardware was shown, from an API’s perspective, IO16 was a lot lighter than IO15.
Spoilers:
- Firebase 2.0
- Changes in Android N
- Changes to fragments
- Android Studio 2.2 Preview
- NDK / C++ changes
- Best practices in Media Playback
- Nearby API & BLE Powered Notifications
- Android Wear 2.0
- Leanback for Android TV
- Instant Apps

#GoogleIO

https://medium.com/@ali.muzaffar/android-developers-google-i-o-2016-recap-5a4d046ac225

Realm has reached 1.0!

They couldn't have done it without your support!

#realm

https://realm.io/news/realm-1.0/

Intro to ConstraintLayout

http://riggaroo.co.za/constraintlayout-101-new-layout-builder-android-studio/

#guide

Network traffic monitoring for your mobile apps

https://medium.com/@sergii/network-traffic-monitoring-for-your-mobile-apps-d8b081eff8c

Android Studio 2.2 Preview 2 Available

#AndroidStudio

https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent/androidstudio22preview2available

RxUi

Talking to Android View layer in a Reactive way from Artem Zinnatullin

#RxJava

http://artemzin.com/blog/rxui-talking-to-android-view-layer-in-a-reactive-way/

Learn Kotlin while developing and Android App

A really series of Stories where we are going to learn Kotlin, while developing an Android App

#kotlin

https://medium.com/@juanchosaravia/learn-kotlin-while-developing-an-android-app-introduction-567e21ff9664

Clean Android Code: How to write testable, re-usable and maintainable code when developing applications for Android.

#Architecture
https://medium.com/@anton.averin.dev/keep-your-droid-clean-e9c093140eb6

RxJava v1.1.6 is here!

#RxJava

https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/releases/tag/v1.1.6

#RxAndroid 1.2.1 released with AndroidSchedulers.reset() to match #RxJava 1.1.6's Schedulers.reset() API.

https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxAndroid/blob/master/CHANGES.md#readme

A better underline for Android

https://medium.com/google-developers/a-better-underline-for-android-90ba3a2e4fb

Android Studio 2.2 Preview 7 Available

We've just released Android Studio 2.2 Preview 7 the Canary channel.

https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent

Completely free version of book about Gradle in PDF.
Authored by O'Reilly.
Book covers such topics as:
* built types and flavors
* custom tasks
* testing
* performance and more...

http://www2.gradle.com/l/68052/2016-07-05/7mlynp

#gradle

Major news and very important changes of Kotlin programming language in new email mailing list.

Subscribe here http://kotlinweekly.net/

#kotlin

Gradle 3.0 is now available!

Core changes:
* Build speed increased up to 75% thanks to Gradle Deamon, which is enabled by default now
* First support for Gradle Script Kotlin!
* Support of the latest Java 9 EAP builds.

Full list of improvements since Gradle 2.0 can be found here: http://docs.gradle.org/3.0/release-notes#all-improvements

P.S. Additionally, Gradle team presented a draft of new Performane Guide:
https://gradle.github.io/performance-guide/

#gradle