This blog post has been long overdue. We appreciate all of you, our readers and long-time fans, who regularly visit our website, are a student in our University or a subscriber on YouTube. But it's time to be open and honest. In short, we will not regularly publish technical Android …

Adding a new developer to your team is an exciting time. After many hours of recruiting work, your efforts have finally paid off and their first day is approaching soon. But how can you optimize the process and get them to contribute quickly? How do you make new developers feel …

Are you switching your workplace or want to become active in an open-source team? Joining a new (Android) project can be a scary and stressful time … but it doesn't have to be! If you prepare and approach this challenge in a structured way, you can fluently onboard and quickly become …

In the previous tutorials, you've learned how to set up custom fonts and design views programmatically and via XML. The last topic is downloadable fonts, which is a way to reduce your app size by sharing common fonts on the user's device with other apps. If the font isn't available …

In the previous two tutorials, you've learned how to set up custom fonts on Android the modern way. Either as fixed font style (such as Noto Serif bold) or as font family (such as Noto serif in several weights). However, so far you've only used XML designs to configure app …

In the last tutorial, we've explored the modern way of implementing custom fonts on Android. However, it broke the support for dynamically changing the font style and weights (for example, bold or italic). In this tutorial, we'll fix this drawback and configure a font family with different styles. {{outline}} {{video} …

In today's competitive app market on Google Play, a beautiful, polished app is necessary to be successful. Custom fonts are an important element of taking an app to the next level and distinct yourselves from the mass. We discussed this in our first tutorials on how to implement custom fonts …

After more than fifteen function-relevant Gson tutorials we'll move to something more developer focused. By default Gson will create minified JSON strings. This is important to reduce the amount of data being transferred over the network. However, especially with large models, for us developers it can be challenging to read …