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Wayne Piekarski shows how Android Wear notification pages require just ONE extra line of code. Seriously, that's it.

Stacking Notifications for Android Wear

Company: Google · May 16, 2014
Platform: Android

Wayne Piekarski from Google shows how Android Wear notification stacking takes just a few lines of code. This 2014 developer preview tutorial remains a masterclass in API simplicity.

Google Play Services 4.4 Release

Company: Google · May 7, 2014
Platform: Android

Google just rolled out Play Services 4.4 globally, and it's bringing Street View to Android apps for the first time. If you've been waiting to embed 360-degree panoramic imagery into your activities, this is yo...

Dropbox's Carousel team faced a brutal truth: their photo app was slower than local galleries, and users noticed. No one wants to wait for network requests just to delete a photo.

LinkedIn Engineering cut their tail latency by 75% through systematic garbage collection tuning. Here's their playbook for high-performance Java apps.

Android Wear Developer Preview

Company: Google · Mar 18, 2014
Platform: Android

Austin Robison from the Android Wear team just opened the door to wrist-based computing. Google's betting that notifications on your wrist will change how users interact with their phones.

Google Play Services 4.3 Release

Company: Google · Mar 17, 2014
Platform: Android

Google just rolled out Play Services 4.3 globally, and it's bringing some heavy hitters into the fold. Analytics and Tag Manager are now first-class citizens alongside game-changing updates to Drive and Games A...

Magnus Hyttsten from Google Developer Relations reveals a major shift in how Android developers connect to Google Play services. The old multi-client approach? Deprecated.

Google Play Services 4.2 Release

Company: Google · Feb 3, 2014
Platform: Android

Google just unified its entire Android services SDK model. If you've been juggling multiple client classes across Maps, Drive, and Cast APIs, this changes everything.

Dianne Hackborn from the Android framework team reveals a hidden tool that exposes exactly how your app behaves when users aren't looking. Most developers are flying blind on background memory usage.

LinkedIn ships a single mobile binary but runs dozens of A/B tests simultaneously. Here's how they pulled it off without constant app releases.

Android Staggered Grid Implementation

Company: Etsy · Jan 13, 2014
Platform: Android

Deniz Veli from Etsy tackled a problem every Android dev knows: GridView and ListView just don't cut it for complex layouts. So they built their own.

Google Play Services 4.1 Release

Company: Google · Jan 9, 2014
Platform: Android

Google just dropped a game-changing update to Play Services that fundamentally shifts how mobile games handle multiplayer and how apps integrate with Drive. This isn't just another SDK update.

Twitch rebuilt their entire video infrastructure while serving millions of concurrent viewers. Here's how they pulled off a zero-downtime migration.

Trevor Johns from Android Developer Relations reveals a breaking change that could silently corrupt encrypted data for apps using Unicode passphrases. If your app uses PBKDF2 key derivation, this affects you.

Google just open-sourced a physics engine with fluid simulation and made Unity integration dead simple. If you're building mobile games, December 2013 brought some serious firepower to your toolkit.

Dave Burke, Engineering Director for Android Platform, just dropped Android 4.4 KitKat with a game-changing focus: making flagship Android experiences run smoothly on entry-level hardware. Project Svelte proves...

Google Play Services 4.0 Release

Company: Google · Oct 31, 2013
Platform: Android

Google just dropped Android 2.2 support to unlock more powerful APIs. Google Play Services 4.0 brings major changes that will affect how you monetize and track users.

Scott Main and David Braun from Android just changed the rules for SMS apps. If you're using hidden APIs, your messaging app will silently fail on KitKat.

Greg Hartrell from Google's Play Games team just dropped three major updates that give game developers unprecedented visibility into player behavior and double their cloud storage capacity.

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