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

Android Support Library v24.2 released!

Release 24.2.0 contains the following changes:
1) v4 Support Library split
2) API updates
3) Behavior changes
4) Deprecations
5) Bug fixes

Note: Release 24.2.0 removes support for Android 2.2 (API level 8) and lower. Classes and methods that exist only to serve those system versions are now marked as deprecated and should no longer be used. These deprecated classes and methods may be removed in a future release.

Discussion on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/4y70e7/android_support_library_v242_released/

More info:
https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/revisions.html

#SupportLibrary

Android Nougat final release is coming.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/08/taking-final-wrapper-off-of-nougat.html

Available now on: Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One).

List of main features (totally over 250):
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0.html

#AndroidN #Nougat

The Android API 24 SDK code sources are now available!

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sources-24_r01.zip

Check your Android Studio SDK Manager.

#AndroidSDK

RxJava 2 RC2 is here!

2.x is a major update with performance improvements and even more!

To learn RxJava 2 use following links:

1. reactivex.io/RxJava/2.x/javadoc/
2. github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/What's-different-in-2.0
3. medium.com/@amitshekhar/migrating-from-rxjava1-to-rxjava2-5dac0a94b4aa#.7p6s72u0k
4. github.com/akarnokd/RxJava2Interop

#rxjava

Stable version of Android Studio 2.2 is out with more than 20 features:
• new Layout Editor with Constraint Layout support
• new APK analyzer
• enhanced Layout Inspector
• full Android 7.0 Nougat features support
• IntelliJ 2016 fetures and much more

#AndroidStudio

Realm Java 2.0.0 released!

Here comes Realm Mobile Platform: realtime synchronization across all Android and iOS devices, conflict resolution, and reactive event handling!

Another awesome changes:
• More Сontext-free api now
• Default values for properties
• Realm log customization
• The primary key defining is mandatory now
• Performance improvements

#Realm

Do you like new Pixel phone by Google?
https://madeby.google.com/phone/

Mocking the un-mockable with Mockito 2.1.0!

https://github.com/mockito/mockito/wiki/What's-new-in-Mockito-2

2.1.0 is a major release with numerous features and changes (2.0.0 version was skipped for specific reasons):
• you can mock final classes in Java and consequently all classes and member functions in Kotlin: http://hadihariri.com/2016/10/04/Mocking-Kotlin-With-Mockito
• full-blown Java 8 support, and Java 9 support (depending on the release date)
• richer stubbing/mocking API
• improving & extracting the continuous delivery automation to a standalone library

#library #testing

Android Studio update 2.2.1 is available now

https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent/androidstudio221isnowavailable

Fixes and features:
• An Updated JDK to address multiple issues with MacOS Sierra
• Improves the Native (C++) Development experience by resolving multiple critical bugs
• Several Instant Run and Gradle Bug Fixes
• Multiple issues in data binding
• Improved Reporting for Instant Run Issues

#AndroidStudio

Android 7.1 with 25 SDK is available now for Android Beta program devices and official emulators

Features:
• circular app icons support
• image keyboards (from API level 13)
• app shortcuts (in launchers)
• support page in settings
• silent app update
• restart button
• movies settings

SDK 25 already released for Android Studio.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/10/android71-dev-preview-available.html

Android Beta program: https://www.android.com/beta

#AndroidNougat #AndroidSDK