As a new or intermediate Android developer, getting started with Retrofit, a popular HTTP client, can seem pretty daunting. However, using this library is not as scary as it sounds. Here are four easy steps to creating your first Retrofit application!

Recently, I became tired of writing the same old tedious code for every single RecyclerView and Adpater class I used, that all did the same thing, so I extrapolated all of it into a personal library.

The RecyclerViewUtils library helps make everyone’s life a little easier with a CoreViewHolder and CoreAdapter class, described below.

Android has a built in SearchView component but it doesn’t feel much like Material Design. This has even been asked on StackOverflow because developers are having trouble recreating the same MaterialSearchView that appears in many of Google’s applications. However, thanks to one of my good friends Maurício, you can now implement this great component in your own projects!

As a form of ultimate procrastination this weekend, I decided to spend the last two days developing a RichTextView library.

This weekend I built the RichTextView (the naming convention comes from the RichTextBox C# class) which allows the user to format different parts ofa. TextView in different ways. For example, if I wanted to display a string but only bold a portion of it, I could achieve that with this class.

User interface for Android Wear have all the same components as a phone’s UI, they just appear a little differently. In this post we’re going to talk about Cards. You’ve most likely seen these in the Google now app, among other Material Design apps. Cards are great because they are a component that is able to provide a consistent look across multiple platforms.

We will consider this post as a deeper dive into an existing tutorial in the Android docs, but as that one states the Cards discussed here are not the same as the Cards that appear as notifications on Android Wear. See the link to better understand this distinction. Let’s go over some of the relevant classes, and we’ll discuss their differences and how to implement them.