40 Screencasts
Chris Guzman
7 minutes
In this screencast, you will learn how to use the Android Jetpack data binding component to declaratively bind data to your UI layouts.
Brian Gardner
10 minutes
As of Android P, the FingerprintManager is deprecated in favor of the BiometricPrompt API. In this screencast, we’ll quickly review a previous Fingerprin...
Zack Simon
7 minutes
Android Oreo introduces Adaptive Icons which allow device manufacturers to choose the outline, or mask, of all app icons on the device. This guarantees th...
Brian Gardner
6 minutes
Android Oreo introduces Adaptive Icons which allow device manufacturers to choose the outline, or mask, of all app icons on the device. This guarantees th...
Kristin Marsicano
6 minutes
In this series, you will learn how to produce separate APKs from the same code base using product flavors. Each flavor will be branded differently, includ...
Brian Gardner
8 minutes
User authentication is very useful for mobile apps but can be tricky to get right. In this screencast we'll show you how to set up Firebase with Android.
Josh Skeen
7 minutes
In this screencast, we will do a recap on SAM Types, see how they work in Kotlin to support Java interoperability, and we'll also see some of the "gotchas...
Brian Gardner
5 minutes
In this screencast, we’ll cover a new background work library introduced at Google I/O 2018 - WorkManager. This release will have a huge impact on most An...
Brian Gardner
8 minutes
The Navigation Architecture Component was introduced at Google I/O 2018. This new library aims to simplify navigation from one screen to another. In this ...
Bolot Kerimbaev
6 minutes
While Android SDK provides the APIs for using SQLite databases, they force developers to write a lot of boilerplate code. Room solves this problem by crea...
Mark Allison
3 minutes
In the final screen cast of the series we’ll return to the Android chooser behavior which asks the user which application they wish to use to handle a new...
Mark Allison
6 minutes
In this screen cast we’ll further build upon the app from the last cast where we got foreground dispatch working to handle tag discovery events within a r...
Mark Allison
5 minutes
In the third screencast of the Android NFC series, we’ll continue to build on the app we’ve been working on in the series so far. Now we’ll begin preparat...
Mark Allison
5 minutes
In the second screencast of this series, we’ll build upon the app we started in the first screencast and demonstrate how we can retrieve the payload of th...
Mark Allison
4 minutes
In the first screencast of this series we’ll cover the basics of NFC tags introducing NDEF and the Android tag dispatch system. We’ll look at how to add a...
Mark Allison
6 minutes
What are some strategies for dealing with Kotlin and Android Lifecycles? In this screencast, cast you'll learn how Android Lifecycles appear to inhibit so...
Brian Gardner
6 minutes
In this video you will learn how to tell a RecyclerView Adapter that the underlying data has changed. You will also see the typical quick way of telling i...
Brian Gardner
8 minutes
In this video you will learn how to configure a RecyclerView and its Adapter to display mutliple types of views in the list. You will determine which type...
Brian Gardner
10 minutes
Integration tests provide a way to verify the features in your application continue to work as you expect while adding new features and refactoring existi...
Brian Gardner
8 minutes
As applications are developed you will often need to add additional fields to your database. The architecture component Room achieves this by using Migrat...
Mark Allison
5 minutes
In this screencast, we'll learn how to take a Java class converted to Kotlin using the conversion tool built in Android Studio, and apply some better null...
Brian Gardner
10 minutes
Firebase Cloud Storage provides an easy way to store files remotely and fetch them when needed. In this video learn the basics of the cloud storage api to...
Brian Gardner
7 minutes
Analytics is crucial to seeing how your app actually gets used and determining the best path forward for new features and maintenance. In this screencast ...
Brian Gardner
6 minutes
There are a wide variety of test doubles you can use to make testing easier. In this video we will discuss mocks and spies, what their differences are and...
Brian Gardner
6 minutes
Unit testing your classes helps ensure that they work correctly based on controlled inputs but doing the setup can be painful if you have a lot of depende...
Brian Gardner
12 minutes
In this video you will learn about ConstraintLayout. It will cover how to use the graphical editor, how to add constraints to your views and tweak their a...
Chris Stewart
8 minutes
CoordinatorLayout is a tool that allows you to coordinate the movement of one view with another. In this screencast, you will see a few examples of how Co...
Bolot Kerimbaev
6 minutes
In this screencast, you'll learn how to be more productive with these useful navigation and editing keyboard shortcuts in Android Studio.
Bolot Kerimbaev
8 minutes
Dagger is a dependency injection framework. In this screencast you will learn how to set up Dagger in a Kotlin Android app and some best practices.
Brian Gardner
7 minutes
App shortcuts give you the ability to provide convenient shortcuts to specific actions in your application. They provide an entry point to different part...
Kristin Marsicano
8 minutes
Android view click listeners are often implemented inline using anonymous inner classes. Lambda syntax offers a more streamlined syntax. This video walk...
Brian Gardner
5 minutes
Android O gives users more control over what notifications they want to see from applications. In this video learn how to implement Notification Channels ...
Brian Gardner
5 minutes
Android O has the ability to change the size of text in a TextView based on the size of the view. In this screencast learn how to add the autosizing and t...
Bolot Kerimbaev
6 minutes
In the third video of this series, we’ll add ViewModel to our application. Instead of calling the repository or other components directly from the Activit...
Bolot Kerimbaev
7 minutes
In the previous video you learned about Room, the object persistence architecture component but we had to use the AsyncTask to perform database access in ...
Kristin Marsicano
6 minutes
In this series, you will learn how to produce separate APKs from the same code base using product flavors. Each flavor will be branded differently, includ...
Brian Gardner
5 minutes
Android O introduces fonts as resources which will greatly simplify using custom fonts in your app. In this video learn how to add those fonts, how to app...
Brian Gardner
8 minutes
The fingerprint manager provides an easy api to verify if a fingerprint is registered on the device. In this screencast learn how to use the api to provid...
Josh Skeen
8 minutes
Google announced official support for the Kotlin Programming language at google io 2017. In this video we will learn how to migrate our existing Java Andr...
Josh Skeen
8 minutes
Class extensions are a powerful feature of Kotlin that allow you to add behavior to classes without extending them. In this video we will take a look at h...
