Online tool to generate mocked HTTP responses

Mocky is a wonderful tool to generate mocked HTTP Response on the fly. You don't have to spin a full server just to generate that very first mocked data. Its very helpful for client end development to quickly test the different data formats.

2015 Android Latest features


  1. Android Lollipop 5.0
  2. Gradle
  3. Android Studio
  4. NFC
  5. Android Wear
  6. ViewGroup, WebView, TextView, RecyclerView
  7. Material Design
  8. Memory Management
  9. Battery Consumption
  10. Android Runtime (ART)
  11. Concurrency and Android Thread Communications
  12. Animation
  13. Android Security
  14. Testing and Debugging (Tools)
  15. Enterprise Android Apps
  16. Bluetooth LE
  17. Android TV
  18. Automative Android
  19. Push Messaging
  20. Notifications
  21. Camera 2 APIs
  22. High-Performance Android Apps
  23. HTML Hybrid Apps
  24. Android Emulator
  25. Deep Linking
  26. Google Cast
  27. Retrofit
  28. App Indexing
  29. Location Services for Android
  30. App Search Optimization
  31. Project Ara
  32. Host Card Emulation (HCE)
  33. Cloud-Powered Android Apps
  34. Brillo 
  35. Weave

Android Networking library

I found a very nice article about using Android networking library Volley along with OkHttp and Gson here.

OkHttp deals with connection pooling, caching and gzipping etc, while Volley is a networking library manages network requests in an app and makes sure that networking calls are executed in background most efficiently.

Sample source code is on Github.

RecyclerView Animations !

I've come across this wonderful post about what RecyclerView widget is and how it works. A must read for someone who is looking for to add more flexibility which are not easy to implement in ListView widgets.

Scheduling Repeating Local Notifications using Alarm Manager

Learn about Scheduling Repeating Local Notifications using Alarm Manager in this post .