Since announcing ConstraintLayout at Google I/O last year, a lot of new features have been added to it, such as introducing chains and setting size as a ratio. In addition to these features, there is a notable performance benefit by using ConstraintLayout. 

One of Google I/O 2017’s exciting developer announcements was first class support for custom fonts starting from Android O and its inclusion in the Support Library which extended font support till API 14.

Last week came the official announcement of the Android O release. This release of Android comes with some really cool new additions, and in this post Joe Birch wanted to look specifically at the new restrictions that have been introduced for background services.

Piotr Mądry describes how to get rid of boilerplate code with using toolbars in fragments.

Christophe Beyls describes how to define singleton with arguments in Kotlin.

Tool to look for several security related Android application vulnerabilities

A small Android library to get the market name of an Android device.

Support Library v26 comes with a lot of new features.

Main class to keep Android devices up to date with the newest emojis.