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Material Design, a new design language that gives design guidelines for Android apps and apps on other platforms, was introduced with the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop. With it came new UI components such as the ‘Floating Action Button’. Implementing...

You might have noticed that lot of android applications introduced a sliding panel menu to navigate between major modules of the application. Previously this kind of UI was done using some third party libraries where a list view and some swiping gestures...

What Is Retrofit? Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. Retrofit makes it easy to connect to a REST web service by translating the API into Java interfaces. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use one of most popular and often...

Android app widgets may look pretty simple – essentially, they’re just small windows that users embed in an App Widget Host, typically their device’s homescreen – but your average application widget has a lot to offer. For users, widgets help them make...

With Google Play Games Services, you can build a range of features into your Android apps, including leaderboards, achievements, multiplayer gameplay, cloud storage, and Google+ sign-in. In this tutorial we will work through the steps you need to take...