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This is meant to be a living archive of Android presentations, articles, videos, whatever that I've presented, co-presented, written, been a witness to, or simply enjoyed and learned from. People ask for this stuff occasionally ("Where can I learn more about performance tuning on Android?" or "Where can I see more videos of Romain? He's so dreamy, with that almost-real French accent!"), so I thought it would be worth recording the links somewhere where I can add new ones over time as stuff comes online (and delete old ones as they become obsolete). I'll attempt to categorize things, but there is overlap on these topics. So the studious developer will, of course, watch and read everything. Twice. The links are presented in rough reverse-chronological order in each section. Some talks date way back to 2010, but they're still relevant today (the advantage of APIs that don't go away...). General Android Development Android Developers Backstage (Tor ...

I've given some talks about Android graphics recently, and the same questions keep coming up: What is Renderscript appropriate for? Is it a replacement for OpenGL rendering? How do I access Renderscript from NDK code? When do I choose between the different rendering options? Can I have a free tablet? It seemed to me that a brief article might help. In particular, I wanted to write something that lays out the various rendering options that Android provides and describes how we envision developers using them (and how we use them ourselves in the applications that we ship) so that you might better understand how and when to use them in your applications. Of course you're not bound to what we think; if you come up with new ways to use what the platform provides, all the better. But we can at least provide a little guidance to help you navigate the myriad of options. Hopefully this article will help answer the questions above. Except for the last question about the free tablet - I c...

The property animation capabilities that are in Android 3.0 (described in the article Animation in Honeycomb ) represent a good building block for powerful animation capabilities in the platform. But we're not stopping there. One minor addition to the platform was added in the 3.1 release, ViewPropertyAnimator. This class allows very easy and efficient one-liner animations of some of the new View properties like alpha, rotation, and scaleX/Y. Check out the Introducing ViewPropertyAnimator article on the Android developer blog for more about this new API. In the meantime, enjoy this teaser trailer that shows the demo described in the article. The interesting part is the code (shown in the article , not here). And the soundtrack, of course: turn up your speakers.