Awesome Android Learner

Another Awesome for those who are searching for a "study guide" for mobile development. You can find interesting posts, tools, plugins, open source apps, everything that may help to develop more and better mobile software.

General

• Network Bands for each country: shows which band is available on each country.

Tools

• Adobe color: helps to define colors pallete for our apps.
• Material Design Color Generator: let you create the full pallete from a single color in hexa, rgb, etc...

Android

Style Guides

• Futurice - best practices: Cool updated list of great practices to follow.

Tools

• Android Demo mode: change status bar items for screenshots like wifi at full level.
• Vysor beta: Mirror (clickable) the device screen into chrome, helpful for meetings on hangout/hero or something.

Android studio plugins

• Adb-Idea: Helps you to reset app data, uninstall app, and others from android studio and other
• Material design icon generator: helps you to import drawables for each size from the material icon source into android studio with defined size and color.
• Android Parcelable code generator from charmas guy: generate all the needed code for a class to be parcelable.
• Idea Multimarkdown: see md/markdown files beautiful, helpful for the project readme.
• QAPlug: integration with findbugs, PMD and checkstyle inside android studio.

How many devices have which OS (dashboard/stats)

1. Google Play: Google play dashboard.
2. AppBrain: AppBrain dashboard.

Courses

• Free/paid - OFFICIAL GOOGLE - Udacity: Google android official courses and nanodegree.
• Free - OFFICIAL free google courses: Base site for android training.
• Free - OFFICIAL Google Analytics for Mobile apps - Google FREE: Google analytics academy.
• Free - Google Developers Channel: youtube list of videos from google.
• Free - Android Developers: youtube list of cool videos.
• Free - Ray Wenderlich: they do android tutorials too :O.
• Free - Codepath Android Wiki: guides for android dev from codepath guys.
• Free - New Circle Courses: New circle courses for android.
• Paid - Udemy - Android Lollipop complete development: Tim Buchalka android course.
• danielgomezrico youtube android list: selected list of videos to learn android from a lot of places.
• Material Design Tutorial Playlist: material design youtube list.

Conferences (travel and learn!)

• Android Study Group conferences list: list of upcoming and old conferences. WOW!
• Google IO Conference: Google IO.
• Big Android BBQ: Google Big Android BBQ.
• DroidCon Conference: DroidCon.
• NYC DroidCon 2014 Videos: NYC DroidCon 2014.
• NYC DroidCon 2015 Videos: NYC DroidCon 2015.
• Devoxx Conference: Devoxx.
• BigNerdRanch Bootcamp: BigNerdRach bootcamp.
• AnDevCon Conference: AnDevCon.
• Mobile Web Dev Conference: Mobile Web Dev (node js?).
• New Circle Android Bootmap: new circle bootcamp.
• GDG DevFests

Books

• Android-Development-Patterns-Professional-Developers: list of patterns for android development.
• The big nerd ranch guide v1: Cool guide to learn the basics of every spec on android.
• JavaRX Essentials: Cool book to learn the cool javaRX.
• Async Android: Async usages for Android.
• Retrofit love working with apis on android: Learn all about Retrofit.

Cool posts

• Android studio tips tricks: cool setups and tips for Android Studio.
• Understanding Android Naming Conventions: explains the idea behind each basic class of android framework to avoid confusions.
• Clean Architecture: one way to architect your apps.
• Enable Lollipop colors/icon for chrome: you can add colors and icon to chrome bar to make you site beautiful and theme based on mobile.
• Install Google Apps into Genymotion Emulator: how to install google services into genymotion emulators.
• Design for Pre lollipop -compat: guide to setup project to use app compat.
• Material design checklist: are you using all material design things?.
• Materialize your app - Antonio Leiva: Antonio leiva post about how to materialize your app.
• Material Design Colors Explanation: learn how to use colors with material design ideas in youtube.
• Material animations shared elements AppCompat - Antonio Leiva: how animate views between activities!.
• CodePath - Lollipop Animations: add lollipop animations to your app.
• Why use volley: cool explanation volley (wow).
• Make Apps Beautiful: Video to make the apps see beatiful.
• Image load - Glide vs Picasso?: Comparation from image loading images.
• Which android http library to use: cool explanation for http requests and libraries.
• Activity launch modes: launch modes explanation.
• AutocompleteTextView examples (including address autocomplete): autotomplete address, accounts and more to copy and paste.
• 6 Things I wish I knew before I wrote my first app: base concepts to learn and avoid performance problems.
• Android performance - Omertsimsek: because performance matterns there are cool slides about.
• Elminating code overhead - Square 2015: Android performance ideas to use from Jacke Warthon.
• Espresso 2.0 presentation: Testing with espresso 2.0.idcon-whats-new-in-android-testing-2015-jos-alcrreca): how to test!.
• Espresso tests "architecture": give ideas about how to write tests in a clean and structured way (tests are code at the end... someone will maintain them).
• Improving UX through performance: explain which libraries they use to get images, improve performance on networking and memory management :).
• Task and document api: explains how android manage activities and tasks.
• GCM to optimize battery: clear explanation for GCM use to do requests and save battery.

Meetups/Talks

• Jake Wharton - testing robots: a testing maintainability idea.
• Droidcon NYC 2016 - Espresso: A Screenshot is Worth 1,000 Words: testing experiences with espresso.

Open Source Apps

• DuckDuckGo: The DuckDuckGo Android App.
• Google IO 2014 compat example: Google IO app from 2014!.
• Open libra - Material Design Showcase: Cool material design example.
• WallSplash - Material Design Showcase: wallpaper app but don´t have the last code. :(.
• Material Animation Samples: some material design examples.
• Sunshine: app developed on the Udacity course Developing Android Apps

Tips

• Wireless debug: how to develop without connect your device through USB.

Tools

• Image optim: Make your assets smaller. #brew cask install imageoptim.
• Density Converter: helps to see values for each density.
• Android Asset Studio: Assets management.
• Material Palette: helps to define colors on material design interfaces.
• Material Design Icons: list of cool icons.
• Device sizes: check screen size for each device.
• Alfi: Dependencies version with terminal.
• Vysor: Cast the screen of any device to computer.

Apps for developersma

• Android - Material: see the material palette on your device.
• Android - Clean Status Bar put a fake clean status bar for google play screenshots.
• Mac - Android Tool: easy take iOS and Android screenshots.
• Release android library plugin for bintray: gradle plugin to release your libraries to bintray (and jcenter).
• Bluestacks: android on desktop. parse, google services (Already installed) and fabric works on it.
• R.tools: app that let you see and change device configurations.
• Pixocolor: see any color pixel on your screen.
• Texpand: text shortcuts, helpful to add users and pwd or other text you write always into there.

Awesomes (categorized list of awesome links)

• Android community: list of videos.
• android-blogs: List with blogs about Android.
• Android libs: simple list of avialable libs.
• Libtastic: Discover top Android libraries based on their popularity in high-ranking apps.
• Android Arsenal: list of available open libs with GUI, comments and so on.
• Github - snowdream awesome: Categorized awesome.
• Github - wasabeef awesome ui: Categorized awesome.
• Github - JStumpp awesome: Categorized awesome.
• Codepath - Must have libraries: Cool guide about base libs for every project.
• Android performance: help you to learn about how to add performance boost.

License

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