Android Studio 2.3 Beta 2 is now available

Android Studio 2.3 Beta 2 has been released to the Canary, Dev, and Beta Channels. 

ConstraintLayout: It Can Do What Now?

ConstraintLayout is a new flexible ViewGroup for Android announced at Google I/O'16, making it easy to create flat hierarchies. 

How “Effective Java” may have influenced the design of Kotlin

While re-reading “Effective Java,” Lukas Lechner found out that it may have influenced Kotlin’s language design.

Gradle Tips and Recipes

Gradle and the Android plugin for Gradle provide a flexible way to compile, build, and package your Android app or library. This page collects some useful tips and configurations to help you get the most out of each build.

Stress-testing Android apps

Mostafa Gazar shares his experience in stress testing Android apps.

Debug artist

Debug menu for happy android dev.

Arrow

Lightweight library toolbox for Java and Android Development.

Building interfaces with ConstraintLayout in Android Studio

The new Layout Editor in Android Studio 2.2 has some surprises, including a new blueprint mode, revamped properties inspector and support for ConstraintLayout, a new way to define layouts for your apps. 

Talking Buck with Uber engineer Gautam Korlam

In first part of this 2 part series, Gautam talks to us about the Uber Android app, the complexity in the architecture, the scaling challenges, the pain points Android developers faced working on such a massive app.

TestSuiteBuilder

Build suites based on a combination of included packages, excluded packages, and predicates that must be satisfied.