As the developer communities scatter from Twitter, let's learn from mistakes.| Zac Sweers
Android Studio has a misleading "Make project" button that you shouldn't click.| Zac Sweers
Android Lint has an API to make network calls, this post covers best practices of when and where to use it.| Zac Sweers
The new tablet UI for Firefox on Android is now available on Nightly and, soon, Aurora! Here’s a quick overview of the design goals, development process, and implementation.| Lucas Rocha
Up until now, Probe relied on dynamic view proxies generated at runtime to intercept View calls. Although very convenient, this approach greatly affects the time to inflate your layouts—which limits the number of use cases for the library, especially in more complex apps.| Lucas Rocha
We’ve all heard of the best practices regarding layouts on Android: keep your view tree as simple as possible, avoid multi-pass layouts high up in the hierarchy, etc. But the truth is, it’s pretty hard to see what’s actually going on in your view tree in each UI traversal (measure → layout → draw).| Lucas Rocha
With all the recent focus on baseline grids, keylines, and spacing markers from Android’s material design, I found myself wondering how I could make it easier to check the correctness of my Android UI implementation against the intended spec.| Lucas Rocha
What if writing custom view recycling layouts was a lot simpler? This question stuck in my mind since I started writing Android apps a few years ago.| Lucas Rocha
If you ever built an Android app, you have definitely used some of the built-in layouts available in the platform—RelativeLayout, LinearLayout, FrameLayout, etc. They are our bread and butter for building Android UIs.| Lucas Rocha
One of the biggest highlights of the Android KitKat release was the new Transitions framework which provides a very convenient API to animate UIs between different states.| Lucas Rocha
This post shows you how to wrap a 3rd party Gradle plugin in your own plugin, so that you can interactive with it programmatically. We’ll use Gradle composite builds to allow us to build all at once, decreasing the build, test, release cycle.| Blundell
