Android Development Best Practices

 

Learn Android Development:

#1 The Official Android Developers’ Blog

At this blog you can find the latest news and policy changes in Android but moreover contains a regular dose of tutorials for developers. All tutorials have detailed content and are accessible for every level.

#2 Android UI/UX

This blog is hailed as the mecca among UI/UX folks, and for good reason – it’s designed to perfection, and it provides UI/UX dissection to pixel-perfect accuracy. From symbolism to data-driven UX to use of colors, everything is provided. There are hardly blogs out there that combine design and UX so beautifully, which is why we suggest you add it to your list of top resources.

#3 Cyril Motlier

Blog for both fields: developing and design. Cyril Mottier

is popular for his conference videos and food-for-thought style posts. Highly recommended if you want to level up beyond being a mere coder or designer.

#4 Vogella

If you’ve ever searched for an Android topic, you have come across Vogella already. It’s a resource that’s up there with the official documentation, as far as the opinion of search engines is concerned. We concur, because Vogella

has been around for a long, long time, and has high-quality tutorials on Java, Android, and general principles surrounding it. This resource is a godsend for a beginner, say when he is feeling overwhelmed by Dependency Injection, and for the intermediate developer, serves as the stepping stone to mastery.

Did you know that when any single application asks for memory, if there isn’t any free memory, Android will respond by closing other apps so it can provide that memory? Then if the user switches to that application, it will have to be restarted.

When any single application takes up more memory, using more CPU and GPU, or consuming more battery, every other application suffers as a result. And this has the potential to wreck the user experience for the entire device.