Android Studio 2.3 Canary 3

Android Studio 2.3 Canary 3 is now Available on Canary and Dev channels.

Kickstarter is open sourcing their Android and iOS apps!

Today the Kickstarter engineering team is open sourcing our Android and iOS apps, and we’re excited about a future of working in the open.

Libraries shouldn't support everything

As soon as you open source a library, the more popular it is, the more requests for “can we support ___?” you will see. In fact, this is a natural course for software in general: to always grow its coverage of features.

Covert downloaders found preinstalled on dozens of low-cost Android phone models

Low-cost phones surreptitiously install and reinstall unwanted apps.

Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 4

Developer Preview 4 includes a number of new APIs that will help you build more powerful standalone apps.

Use Android Studio Gradle Build Cache for faster builds

Android Studio Gradle Build Cache is a new feature available in the Android Studio. It caches the artifacts between the build reducing the time you have to wait for the slow Gradle build to finish.

Android-EasyLocation

Google play service - location services wrapper.

automated_test_emulator_run plugin

Wraps commands for launching tests in process that prepares new set of AVDs, waits until they start and deletes them after test session finish.

Let’s talk Immutability, Value Types and AutoValue

In this episode, we talk to our good friend and immutability champ Ryan Harter about the benefits and disadvantages of immutability, Value types and the subtle difference with Value types, AutoValue and how you can extend it using the super nifty auto-value extension system for functionality like Parcelability, Json parsing...

SpellCheckerSession

The SpellCheckerSession interface provides the per client functionality of SpellCheckerService.