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...

Realm is a lightweight mobile database you can use in your Android projects. It's faster than SQLite and you won't need an ORM to work with it. In this quick...

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...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Nearby Connections API to link multiple devices over the same Local Area Network. You will learn how to turn...

Stetho is an open source debugging platform developed by Facebook that allows you to debug your Android apps using Google Chrome's developer tools. It offers...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...