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Google Fit for Android: An Overview

Tutorial • Beginner

Google Fit is included in Google Play Services and allows developers to store fitness data for users in order to help users keep track of their exercise...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 11 Jan 2016
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How to Advertise Android as a Bluetooth LE Peripheral

Tutorial • Intermediate

Although a relatively new technology, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) has already proven itself to be a versatile and useful communication medium. While it can be...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 14 Dec 2015
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Understanding AsyncTask Values in 60 Seconds

Tutorial • Beginner

On Android, the AsyncTask class is commonly used to perform operations on a background thread. In this video, I show you how an AsyncTask works and how you...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 8 Dec 2015
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How to Grow Your Audience With Google App Invites

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can grow your mobile app's audience by letting existing users invite their friends to try the app. Google released...

Gianluca Segato • 7 Dec 2015
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Gradle in 60 Seconds

Tutorial • Beginner

Gradle is the de facto build system for Android Studio. It takes your project's source code, resources, and other dependencies, and packages them up into an...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 24 Nov 2015
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An Introduction to Face Detection on Android

Tutorial • Intermediate

Introduced with the Vision libraries in Play Services 8.1, Face Detection makes it easy for you as a developer to analyze a video or image to locate human...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 23 Nov 2015
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Using Gradle Build Variants

Tutorial • Intermediate

One of the key features of Android Studio is the integration of Gradle as an Android build system. While the overall purpose of a build system is to take...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 2 Nov 2015
Tools

Getting Started With Google Maps for Android: Advanced

Tutorial • Advanced

While the standard features of Google Maps are incredibly useful, there will be times that you want to do a little bit more. Luckily, Google has created an...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 12 Oct 2015
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Getting Started With Google Maps for Android: Intermediate

Tutorial • Intermediate

Without a doubt, maps are one of the most useful tools for users when included in an app. This tutorial is the second in a series going over Google Maps v2...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 7 Oct 2015
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Scrolling Techniques for Material Design

Tutorial • Beginner

During this year's Google I/O, Google introduced the Android Design Support Library to make the adoption of Material Design easier. This lets developers...

Kerry Perez Huanca • 5 Oct 2015
Android Development

Reading QR Codes Using the Mobile Vision API

Tutorial • Intermediate

The latest release of the Google Play services SDK includes the mobile vision API which, among other things, makes it very easy for Android developers to...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 28 Sep 2015
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Getting Started With Google Maps for Android: Basics

Tutorial • Beginner

Without a doubt, maps are one of the most useful tools for users when included in an app. This tutorial is the first in a series going over Google Maps v2...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 23 Sep 2015