Java 8 in Android N Preview
Android team recently released Android N Preview with many new improvements including Java 8 support by the Jack compiler. Here we’ll check what it actually means for Android developers and how to try new language features.

https://medium.com/@sergii/java-8-in-android-n-preview-76184e2ab7ad

#AndroidN #Java8

Famous Android development personalities blogs:

http://jakewharton.com/
http://www.donnfelker.com/
http://danlew.net/
http://fernandocejas.com/
http://antonioleiva.com/
http://panavtec.me/
http://artemzin.com/
http://www.dmytrodanylyk.com/
http://johnpetitto.com/
https://www.novoda.com/blog/
http://blog.karumi.com/
http://www.thedroidsonroids.com/blog/
http://chris.banes.me/
http://panavtec.me/
http://saulmm.github.io/
http://hannesdorfmann.com/

#Blogs #Collections

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Stable android Studio 2.0 is here!
Android Studio 2.0 includes the following new features that Android developer can use in their workflow:
- Instant Run
- Android Emulator
- Cloud Test Lab Integration
- App Indexing Code Generation & Test
- GPU Debugger Preview

Let's deeper Dive into the New Features!
http://android-developers.blogspot.ru/2016/04/android-studio-2-0.html

#AndroidStudio

Support library 23.3.0 is available

http://developer.android.com/intl/ru/tools/support-library/index.html#revisions

#SupportLibrary

#Debugger features, which you might not know!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ilb3kBa8C7cArhu7-4TAsA-dDxFkvv9eRL7DC6H56sE/pub?slide=id.p

#AndroidN Developer Preview 2, out today!
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/android-n-developer-preview-2-out-today.html

#AndroidStudio 2.1 Beta Available!
The main feature in 2.1 is support for Android N preview; other than that, the release is nearly identical to the 2.0 stable release from last week, but with a few extra bug fixes and some tweaks to Instant Run performance.
http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio21betaavailable

Testing quite often is one of the most neglected aspect in many Software projects, and in Android this has been particulary a common issue since the beginning of the platform. Check out begginners guide to an effictive android testing strategy.

https://davidguerrerodiaz.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/a-beginners-guide-to-an-effective-android-testing-strategy

#beginners #guide #testing

Open-sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster
We’re excited to announce that we are open-sourcing ReDex, with the hope that developers can use these tools to make every Android app smaller and faster — not just Facebook.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/998080480282805

#library

Reactive Programming for Android
Agera is a set of classes and interfaces to help write functional, asynchronous, and reactive applications for Android.

https://github.com/google/agera

#Agera #library #reactive

RxJava vs Agera

https://twitter.com/akarnokd/status/723083911287332864

#RxJava #Agera

As you may know 18-20 May we will have the greatest Google I/O 2016 and here we are glad to present you schedule for this party. So make you calendar free, do not plan any business at these days.

https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule

#GoogleIO

Butterknife 8.0.0 is here.
Main features:
- @Bind becomes @BindView and @BindViews
- Calls to bind now return an Unbinder instance
- New: @BindArray binds String, CharSequence, and int arrays and TypeArray to fields
- New: @BindBitmap binds Bitmap instances from resources to fields
- @BindDrawable now supports a tint field which accepts a theme attribute

https://github.com/JakeWharton/butterknife/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#version-800-2016-04-25

#library

The stable release of Android Studio 2.1 supports Android N Developer Preview: N Developer Preview Support, Instant Run.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/android-studio-21-supports-android-n.html

#AndroidN #AndroidStudio

Official Android app for Google I/O has been updated in PlayMarket: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.iosched

Let's take a look at the event schedule and app's UI innovations.

#io #app

#InstantRun is an #AndroidStudio feature that significantly reduces the time for building and deploying incremental code changes during your coding / testing / debugging lifecycle. Join Reto Meier as he offers a peek behind the curtain to learn how Instant Run actually works, and learn some tips to help make it work better for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StqAZ1OQbqA

Android Support Library 23.4 is out now with bug fixes.

https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/B7QhFkWZ6YX

#SupportLibrary

#AndroidStudio 2.1 enables Dex In Process, a feature that can dramatically improve all your build times. To take advantage of Dex In Process, you’ll need to modify your gradle.properties file and increase the amount of memory allocated to the Gradle Daemon VM by 1 Gb, to a minimum of 2 Gb, using the org.gradle.jvmargs property.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SY5nkNVUn0

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/