From design to android, part 1

Thanks to amazing design platforms like Dribbble or MaterialUp, we, as developers have access to a huge catalog of well-made design concepts, interfaces, and proposals in clicks. Nevertheless, sometimes some...

The VCS client of Android Studio

Nowadays, we can’t imagine start a new software project without a version control system, between the different options available for a VCS, Git, without any doubt, has become one of...

The powerful Android Studio

Android Studio is the official tool for Android development these days. Being developed at the top of project IntelliJ IDEA, takes into advantage (almost in its entirety) features of edition,...

Avoiding cold starts on Android

During the last weeks, has been seen in the Android developer community some movement regarding the cold starts, splash screens or launch screens on Android. In this post, I’d like...

Mastering the Coordinator Layout

In the Google I/O 15, Google released a new support library which implements several components closely related with the Material Design’s spec, among these components you can find new ViewGroups...

Squeezing your Gradle builds

Android Studio came from by the hand of Gradle as a new tool for the construction and packaging of Android projects. This powerful utility, well exploited, can provide much power...

When Iron Man becomes reactive, RxJava

This part of the series is focused on the benefits that some funcional touches can provide a to our projects. A framework like RxJava of ReactiveX can easily help to...

When the Avengers meet Dagger2, RxJava and Retrofit in a clean way

Recently, a lot articles, frameworks, and talks at the android community, are appearing talking about testing and software architecture, as said in the last Droidcon Spain, we are focusing on...

A useful stack on android #3, compatibility

This is the third post of the series: ‘A useful stack on Android’. In the first part I have tried to define a modular and scalabe architecture, based on the...

A useful stack on android #2, user interface

This is the second part of the series: ‘A useful stack on android’, in the first part, I reviewed the general architecture of the proyect, this article focuses on the...