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Wouter van Oortmerssen from Google's Fun Propulsion Labs just open-sourced FlatBuffers, a serialization library that reads data without unpacking or allocating extra memory. Game developers struggling with perf...

Android Wear Design Story

Company: Google · Jun 3, 2014
Platform: Android

Roman Nurik and Timothy Jordan from Google's Android team designed their first Android Wear app and discovered something surprising: adapting square UIs to round screens took under an hour.

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...

Erik Michaels-Ober from SoundCloud announced something that would shape iOS development for years: corporate sponsorship of open source dependency management. Back in 2014, this was a novel approach to sustaini...

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.

Twitter just made mobile apps 30% faster with a single line of code. Here's how they did it and why they're giving it away for free.

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.

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