Stuff for Android

Build systems

Buck by facebook: a build system for Android that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources. Not yet supported on windows !
It was presented by Simon Stewart at GTAC 2013 (Google Test Automation Conference) How Facebook Tests Facebook on Android.

Gradle Android build, a presentation will be held on Google IO.

Open source libraries

• For lazy data uploading Asynchronous Http Client
• For lazy downloading here is a sample project by Codehenge.
• JSON Stream Parsing with Jackson link.
• Make HTTP request easily with http-request, okhttp and Retrofit by Square, Volley by Google.
• Floating Image a sample projet for streaming images.
• Persistence libraries OrmLite, Cupboard, GreenDAO by GreenRobot.
• Google-GSON to convert JSON to Java objects and vice-versa.
• Event bus libraries for android Otto by Square, EventBus by GreenRobot, SimpleEventBus.
• Libraries for Crash reporting and logs aggregation.
• Clutch.io An open source library A/B testing.
• ListView adapters made easy by FunDapter.
• Singly allows to add social login, sharing and friend finding into your mobile and web applications, their SDK can be found on github.
• ActionBar-PullToRefresh provides an easy way to add the pull-to-refresh interaction to your application.
• Dependency Injection: Butter Knife for view injections.
• Input validation: android-validation-komensky.

Android Bootstrap A presentation about common libraries.

Testing rocks debuging sucks

AndroidMock a framework by Google for mocking Android interfaces/classes based on EasyMock syntax.
BoundBox provides access to all fields, constructor and methods (public or not) of a Class for Unit-testing without having to modify the latter.

Design patterns

Libraries for the Action bar UI design patter:

• SlidingMenu based on the ActionBarSherlock library, 
• another demo project.
• and more at stackoverflow.
• Subtile ActionBar effect
• Masonry layout (or Pinterest like grid): StaggeredGridView, AntipodalWall.
• RESTful Android as described by Virgil Dobjanschi's presentation Android REST client applications at Google I/O 2010. Another implementation can be found here.

Object Pool pattern for better performance: discussion, Pools.java, a sample.

User Interface Design

• Blur effect for Android design (just like in the Path app).
• How to make the ChatHead feautre as available on the Facebook Messenger.
• A blog post describing how to make counters on the navigation drawer.

Random stuff

Sample downloader by commonsguy showing the using of handlers/messanger to communicate between Service and the main thread.
User authentication.
Which IDE: eclipse vs InteliJ.
The dumpsys commands with Android adb