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Coloring Android Apps with Palette

Tutorial • Beginner

One of the defining features of material design is the use of color to compliment and emphasize content on the screen. Using the Palette class, developers...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 29 Jun 2015
Web APIs

Getting Started With Android: Creating a Customized Toolbar

Tutorial • Beginner

Creating native Android apps allows you to deliver a first-class mobile experience to your users. In this short video tutorial, you'll learn you how to add...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 18 Jun 2015
Tools

Detect and Resolve Performance Problems on Android

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, you'll get a crash course in the performance problems every Android developer needs to be aware of. You'll also learn about the tools you...

Jessica Thornsby • 12 Jun 2015
Tools

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
Android Development

Google I/O 2015 Aftermath

Tutorial • Beginner

In this article, I discuss the happenings at Google I/O 2015, presenting a summary of some of the most important announcements. I'll talk about what was...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 5 Jun 2015
Tools

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
Tools

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
Tools

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
Tools

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
Web APIs

Google Play Services: Using the Places API

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial, you will learn how to present your users with the Place Picker component, use the Places API to guess the user's current place, search for...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 11 May 2015
Tools

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
Android Development

Creating an Android Wear Watch Face

Tutorial • Beginner

In December of 2014, Google released an official API for creating custom watch faces for Android Wear. In this article, you're going to learn about the...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 20 Apr 2015