This week in #AndroidDev - Fri, Aug 10 2018

Android 9 Pie Android 9 harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to give you more from your phone. Now it's smarter, faster and adapts as you use it. Android 9 adapts to you and how you use your phone, learning your preferences as you go.

Intro to MotionLayout part IV: Keyframes Deep Dive MotionLayout is a new layout focusing on animation, provided with the ConstraintLayout 2.0 library. The previous articles in this series provide a great overview of the system; I would highly…

We just released the second alpha release of ConstraintLayout 2.0. It's available from the google maven repository: implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:2.0.0-alpha2' implementation…

During the spring semester, three students in the Electrical & Computer Engineering program at Rowan University worked with the developer preview of Android Things and the developer preview of the Google Assistant SDK in order to prototype a new…

Authored by: Tom Grinsted (Product Manager for the Google Play Console) and Tamzin Taylor (Head of Apps & Games BD, Western Europe at Google Play) Every day Google Play generates over 3 billion events, such as store searches, listing page views…

Let's say that we need to draw a rounded corner background on text, supporting the following cases: Set the background on one line text Set the background on text over two or multiple lines Set the background on right-to-left text How can we…

Welcome to another article of Firebase Android Series. Here, we are going to learn how to build an Android app using Firebase from scratch. This is the fourth article of Firebase Android Series. We put the focus on learning how to use Firebase to…