Google has removed dozens of popular fake photo apps meant to hurt its users. Security firm Trend Micro discovered 29 malicious apps that were listed on the official Google Play store, all advertised as “beauty camera” applications. The apps have since been removed by Google.

The idea of a parallax is to give the illusion of depth thanks to targets seemingly moving at a different pace. You have probably already noticed the …

In recent years, Google hasn’t exactly been known as particularly hospitable toward SD cards with regard to its Android operating system. This theme is mos... by Cody Toombs in Editorials, News

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In recent years, Google hasn’t exactly been known as particularly hospitable toward SD cards with regard to its Android operating system. This theme is mos... by Cody Toombs in Editorials, News

Android++ is a freely distributed extension and associated MSBuild scripts designed to enable Android application development within Visual Studio. Primarily for NDK based C/C++ applications, it also incorporates customisable deployment, resource management, and integrated Java source compilation.

New android 3D scanning phone project.

If you've ever written an iOS or Android app, or if you've been part of a beta testing group, there's a chance that you've run into TestFlight. The service... by Cody Toombs in Applications, Development, News

I will never say it out loud enough: always do overwhelm your users with your mobile apps. One of the most important way to mind-blow your users is …

General information aabout 9-Patches.

Join Nick Butcher and Roman Nurik as they discuss various elements of Android Design. This week, we'll run through some common navigation and app structure anti-patterns we've observed during app review. You can find slides from this episode here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/+NickButcher/albums/5981768132040708401

 Use ProGuard to make your apps smaller and to obfuscate your code.

So what is the deal with FILL_PARENT and MATCH_PARENT anyways?

Push messaging enables you to deliver timely information to your app. This capability is often the critical component to creating a dynamic and engaging app experience.

If you use the new Gradle build system with Android (or Android Studio) you might have realized, that even the simplest Gradle call (e.g. gradle project or grade tasks) is pretty slow. On my computer it took around eight seconds for that kind of Gradle calls. You can decrease this startup time of Gradle (on my computer down to two seconds), if you tell Gradle to use a daemon to build. Just cre ...

We broke the news yesterday that Google was producing a prototype 3D sensing smartphone called Project Tango. We also broke down the capabilities of the..

Mark Murphy's CommonsBlog - what he likes and dislikes about 4.3

According to insiders, in the conference Google I / O 2014 in June, the new version of the Android operating system will not be presented. During the conference, Google will focus attention on the demonstration of new services, and OS Android 4.5 will be announced in a separate presentation in July.

WonderAdapters - Small Android Library that let Developers write their own list adapters without copying code from previous projects

I nice little break down about fragments and back stack, and how to manage them better.

So true!

I left the Android team a couple of months ago but there are still many visual effects and demos I would like to write for that platform. Since I am currently on vacation I was able to find some sp...

A protip by ravishanker about tdd, android, testing, bdd, junit, robolectric, robotium, and android studio.

The latest data from Google shows a small gain in the number of devices running its newest KitKat flavor of Android, but Jelly Bean continues to be the variation that is seeing highest ...

BubbleIntroHelper provides an easy way how to add bubble guided tour for your android application users. Checkout Instago app for an instance.

Android weather app with yahoo provider. AutocompleteTextView with remote item list

Samsung has just announced that the Galaxy S5 will be available starting April 11th in 150 countries. Over here in the US, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile

This looks like it could be useful.

Tweet Float Label Pattern for Android Dec 25th, 2013 | Comments Matt Smith originally came out with the clever pattern “Float Labels”. …

There are a lot of cool effects that can be done in Android to manipulate images, one technique from Graphical Magic is blurred images.

More Android development tutorials.

Rest interaction in Android.

New release of Android Studio

It probably happened to every Android developer who once published an application to Google Play. You received complaints from users stating that they can’t find your application on their tablet, while they do find it on their smartphone (or the other way around). After hours of searching for a valid explanation, you probably gave up.

Android Button Maker, drawable resource shape xml file to create buttons geometric shape, including strokes, colors and background gradients