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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
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
Android Development

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
Tools

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
Tools

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
Tools

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
Android Development

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
Tools

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