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Introduction to the New Lollipop Activity Transitions

Tutorial • Intermediate

One of the most interesting aspects of the Material Design specifications is the visual continuity between activities. This introductory article will guide...

Gianluca Segato • 13 Apr 2015
Tools

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
Tools

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
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Dependency Injection With Dagger 2 on Android

Tutorial • Advanced

Dependency injection is a software design pattern focused on making our applications loosely coupled, extensible, and maintainable. In this tutorial, you...

Kerry Perez Huanca • 11 Mar 2015
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Creating Compound Views on Android

Tutorial • Intermediate

When building complex applications, you'll often want to reuse the same group of views in various places of the application. One way to solve this problem is...

Cindy Potvin • 2 Mar 2015
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Create a Live Wallpaper on Android Using an Animated GIF

Tutorial • Intermediate

Create an interesting and beautiful live wallpaper for your Android device. Learn more from this article on how to set a GIF as a wallpaper on Android.

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 23 Feb 2015
Tools

An Introduction to Android TV

Tutorial • Beginner

Do you want to get a better understanding of Android TV? This introduction will get you up and running with this new platform, from explaining what Android...

Jessica Thornsby • 16 Feb 2015
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Identifying People With Qualcomm's Snapdragon SDK

Tutorial • Advanced

In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can take advantage of Qualcomm's Snapdragon SDK to derive metadata from your photos, giving users new ways to explore...

Joshua Newnham • 4 Feb 2015
Tools

Create a Ringtone Randomizer on Android

Tutorial • Intermediate

Android phones come with a lot of built-in ringtones, most of which are never used. To help users use all the ringtones on their devices, in this tutorial,...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 2 Feb 2015
Tools

The Ins and Outs of Gradle

Tutorial • Beginner

Is the Gradle build system preventing you from making the leap to Android Studio? This article gets you up and running with Android's new build system, from...

Jessica Thornsby • 12 Jan 2015