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Which tools do you need as a developer? This part of our Coding Fundamentals section introduces you to some essential coding tools and explains how to use them.

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How to Use Kotlin in Your Android Projects

Tutorial • Beginner

If you are looking for an alternative programming language for Android development, you should give Kotlin a try. Kotlin is a modern language with lots of...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 8 Jun 2015
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Using Firefox Developer Edition For Web Development

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the devtools of the new Firefox Developer Edition and how they will help you in developing your next web...

Tanay Pant • 6 Jun 2015
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Using Android's VectorDrawable Class

Tutorial • Beginner

While Android does not support SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics) directly, Lollipop introduced a new class called VectorDrawable, which allows designers and...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 25 May 2015
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Creating a Weather Application for Mars Using Volley

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we use what we learnt in the previous article about Volley to create a weather application for Mars. To fetch the weather data, we use the...

Gianluca Segato • 20 May 2015
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Quick Tip: Add Facebook Login to Your Android App

Tutorial • Beginner

Facebook Login provides a convenient and secure way for people to log in to an app without having to go through a sign-up process first. In this quick tip,...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 18 May 2015
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An Introduction to Volley

Tutorial • Beginner

Volley is a networking library developed by Google and introduced during Google I/O 2013. It allows queuing and firing multiple requests, caching them, and...

Gianluca Segato • 13 May 2015
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Quick Tip: Authentication with Twitter and Fabric

Tutorial • Beginner

In this quick tip, you are going to learn how to use Fabric, Twitter's mobile development platform, to enable people to sign into your Android apps using...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 4 May 2015
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Understanding the WatchKit Layout System

Tutorial • Beginner

WatchKit introduced a completely new concept to iOS developers to lay out apps. In this tutorial, we take a closer look at how to design a user interface for...

Patrick Balestra • 10 Apr 2015
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Quick Tip: Using Butter Knife to Inject Views on Android

Tutorial • Beginner

In this quick tip, you'll learn how to integrate the Butter Knife library in your projects to easily instantiate the views in your layout in your...

Kerry Perez Huanca • 6 Apr 2015
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How to Use Android Media Effects With OpenGL ES

Tutorial • Advanced

You can use the Media Effects framework to easily apply lots of impressive visual effects to photos and videos in your Android app. In this tutorial, you are...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 30 Mar 2015
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Using the JobScheduler API on Android Lollipop

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the JobScheduler API available in Android Lollipop. The JobScheduler API allows developers to create jobs that...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 27 Mar 2015
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Add Charts to Your Android App Using MPAndroidChart

Tutorial • Beginner

If your app deals with a lot of data, your users are going to love you if you choose to use charts instead of tables to display that data. There are many...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 16 Mar 2015