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Android Architecture Components: Testing your Room DAO classes
Joe Birch talks about how can to write tests for DAO classes when we’re using Room for Database layer in our applications.
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Articles
If you’ve started using Room (and you should if you haven’t), there’s a high probability that you will need to store + retrieve some kind of date/time. 
Enhancing build time is essential. Not only essential for engineering productivity but also essential for product time to market for getting products out of the door faster.
Picture in Picture (PIP) is an interesting feature that gives the user a magical experience. 
Or The Curious Case of the Disappearing Hole.
What is SnapHelper and how you can customize it to work for you!

To build apps that make use of phone numbers, it's often crucial to verify that the user owns a number. Doing this can be tricky from a UX perspective, not least in understanding phone number formats in different locales, but also in providing a verification mechanism that isn't cumbersome or using intrusive device permissions, such as the ability to read all of a user's SMS.
Libraries
ViewPrinter lets you preview, edit and print View hierarchies, be it graphics, texts, or whatever you can draw in Android.
With MaterialTimelineView you can easily create a material looking timeline.
Full demo weather app included.

Videos/Podcasts
Droidcon Berlin 2017 video playlist.
Class of the week
Class that provides lifecycle for the whole application process.


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