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} …

Last week we’ve learned about CoreOS’ components and technologies within the ecosystem. This week, we’re directly diving into the practical part and get our hands dirty. If you read the first post, you already know that CoreOS is an operating system geared towards high-availability. Setting up a cluster …

A few weeks ago we published a post about setting different permissions for each productFlavor. Some requested if this is possible for dependencies as well, so here it is: in this blog post, we'll show you how to set up productFlavor-dependent dependencies. Related Posts Android: How to Implement ProductFlavor-Dependent Permissions …

Since we heard that our previous Android Quick Tips added some value to a bunch of developers, we've decided to continue this series with a variety of topics. This week we'll look at the Gradle build system. {{outline}} Speeding Up Your Builds Of course, all of us would love having …

A few months ago we were working on a client app project, which releases many different brands from the same core project. In order to keep the code base simple and easy to work with, we're using one android project with one productFlavor for each brand. Some of these brands …

In comparison to the other mobile platforms, Android's Java is slow to run computationally intensive tasks. RenderScript offers a framework to efficiently compute algorithms by utilizing all processors. RenderScript is fairly new to Android and most of the APIs are only available for Android 4.3 (Jellybean) or newer. Fortunately, …