Android SDK Tools Revision 25.3.0 (Feb 2017)

Android SDK Tools 25.3.0 has just been released to the canary channel with some breaking changes.

Material Design and the Mystery Meat Navigation Problem

Bottom navigation bars have a serious problem: mystery meat navigation.

Building Prepd: The pros and cons of launching a product with React Native

Marcel Kalveram describes pros and cons of Reactive Native for Android development.

Practical challenges for RxJava learners

Sergii Zhuk built a set of simple code challenges to learn RxJava using JUnit tests as an acceptance criteria.

Android Wear 2.0: Make the most of every minute

You’ll get more personalized and helpful watch faces, new ways to use apps, a better fitness experience, more ways to message, plus the Google Assistant right on your wrist.

Chromium Blog: Integrating Progressive Web Apps deeply into Android

With newest Chrome for Android version,  once a user adds a Progressive Web App to their Home screen, Chrome will integrate it into Android in a much deeper way than before.

Under the Hood

Under the Hood is a flexible and powerful Android debug view library. 

Chuck

An in-app HTTP inspector for Android OkHttp clients.

Kluent

Fluent Assertion-Library for Kotlin.

App Shortcuts with Andrew Orobator

In episode #72,  Andrew Orobator gives the lowdown on the new feature App Shortcuts that was introduced in Android 7.1.

Life of a Certification Student

JP Souchak introduces the Associate Android Developer (AAD) Certification by Google. 

TvInputService

The TvInputService class represents a TV input or source such as HDMI or built-in tuner which provides pass-through video or broadcast TV programs.