Notepad for Android Developer

A personal notepad for collecting all types of information about Android development. Tools that I've used or want to use.

Categories

• Useful links
• Tutorials
• Articles
  • Kotlin
  • Architecture
• Android Studio plugins
• IDE tips
• Libraries
  • Network
  • Media
  • Other
• Open source projects
• Quality
  • Testing
• UI/UX
• Tools
• Never used, want to try
• Legacy - used in older projects

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Useful links

• Android developers - Medium
• Google Codelabs
• Android Arsenal
• Android Developer Roadmap 2022

Tutorials

• The Kotlin Programming Language
• Learn Git Branching

Articles

• Implementing In-App Updates in Android
• Understanding migrations with Room
• The S.O.L.I.D Principles in Pictures
• Image Loading with Glide - How it works

Kotlin

• Idiomatic Kotlin - series of articles
• Improving kotlin quality

Architecture

• Clean Architecture Guide (with tested examples)
• Using the factory design pattern with Kotlin

UI/UX

• Implementing Google’s refreshed modal bottom sheet

Tools

• 20 Android Dev Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
• Keep your codebase tidy with detekt
• Two Developer Tools for Documenting Android Codebases

Android Studio plugins

• Rainbow Brackets
• Key Promoter X
• ADB Idea
• Presentation Assistant
• Name That Color - generating names for colors

IDE tips

• Mastering Code Line Bookmark in IntelliJ and Android Studio

Libraries

Network

• Retrofit - HTTP client
• Scarlet - A Retrofit inspired WebSocket client
• Moshi - JSON library
• Firebase Authentication - for users authentication
• JSoup - for web scrapping

Media

• Coil - coroutines based image loading

Other

• Koin - lightweight dependency injection
• AndroidX - Android extensions library
• Krate - shared preferences wrapper

Open source projects

• Signal - private messenger

Quality

• Timber - logger
• Pretty Timber Android Logcat - logging formatter
• Hyperion - app debugging & inspection tool
• Leak Canary - memory leak detection library
• Bye Bye Jetifier - plugin to verify if you can keep Android Jetifier disabled
• detekt
• Hyperion
• Hyperion - font scale plugin

Testing

• Kluent - fluent assertions library

Instrumentation tests

• BasicUnitAndroidTest

UI/UX

• Material Design
• Material Design Tools
• Android UI libraries list
• Material Dialogs - material design dialogs
• MaterialTapTargetPrompt - material design prompts
• MPAndroidChart - charts library
• Epoxy - library for building complex screens in a RecyclerView

Tools

• scrcpy - device screen on PC
• Android Asset Studio
• carbon - images of your source code
• cloc - count lines of code

Never used, want to try

• fastlane
• Mirakle
• Zoomy
• Kakao

Legacy - used in older projects

• Glide - image loading library
• RxJava
• RxKotlin
• Butterknife - field and method binding
• Can I drop Jetifier - plugin that checks if there are dependencies using support library instead of AndroidX