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Beginner's Guide to Android Layout

Tutorial • Beginner

Learn how an Android Layout defines the visual structure for a user interface, such as the UI for an activity or app widget.

Chinedu Izuchukwu • 28 Nov 2017
Android Development

Java 8 for Android Development: Stream API and Date & Time Libraries

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to use type annotations, the Stream API, functional interfaces and Java 8.0's new Date and Time API in your Android projects.

Jessica Thornsby • 14 Nov 2017
Design Patterns

Implementing an Event Bus With LiveData

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this post, you'll learn how to utilize the LiveData components from Android Architectural components to create an event bus for your Android app.

Chike Mgbemena • 10 Nov 2017
Coding Fundamentals

Concurrency and Coroutines in Kotlin

Tutorial • Intermediate

Creating multithreaded Android applications doesn't have to mean lengthy code. Learn about Kotlin's useful techniques for running operations in parallel.

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 6 Nov 2017
Functional Programming

Kotlin From Scratch: Exception Handling

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn about exceptions and how to handle them in Kotlin. We'll look at checked and unchecked exceptions, the try construct, @Throws, and more.

Chike Mgbemena • 1 Nov 2017
Coding Fundamentals

Mobile Development Tools

Tutorial • Beginner

To suceed in any trade, one needs to master the relevant tools. In this article, you'll learn about various mobile development tools and their usage.

Sandamal Siripathi • 26 Oct 2017
OOP

New Course: Kotlin Fundamentals

Tutorial • Beginner

Do you want to get started using one of the hottest new programming languages out there? Then check out our new course, Kotlin Fundamentals.

Andrew Blackman • 18 Oct 2017
Android Development

Java 8 for Android Development: Default and Static Methods

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to add default and static methods to your interfaces, create repeating annotations, and use lambda expressions and method references.

Jessica Thornsby • 17 Oct 2017
Functional Programming

Kotlin From Scratch: Advanced Properties and Classes

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn some cool Kotlin class properties, such as late initialization, inline properties, and extension properties, as well as advanced Kotlin class types.

Chike Mgbemena • 13 Oct 2017
Theme Development

Quick Tip: Theme Android With the Runtime Resource Overlay Framework

Tutorial • Advanced

The RRO framework lets you create themes that change the look of almost every app on an Android device. Learn how to use it to edit the quick settings tray.

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 12 Oct 2017
Android Development

Java 8 for Android: Cleaner Code With Lambda Expressions

Tutorial • Intermediate

Lambda expressions can help you process huge amounts of data with ease. See how with this in-depth look at Java 8 features you can use in Android projects.

Jessica Thornsby • 11 Oct 2017
Android Development

How to Pass Data Between Activities With Android Parcelable

Tutorial • Beginner

We often need to pass data between Activities of an Android app. Learn how Parcelable makes it easy to serialize classes for sharing between Activities.

Chinedu Izuchukwu • 2 Oct 2017