androidguide/GeneralAndroidTemplates&Education.md at master · nstevens/androidguide

There are all the libraries we use in the app today: libraries

Dave wrote a detailed post about how we manage client app state with Dagger & Otto.

We use gradle as our build system, the default with Android Studio. Here are the customizations we've made to our build.gradle file:

Within android {}:

    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
    }

We use build types to zipalign release builds. This has a bigger impact if you have a large app with more images

    buildTypes {
        release {
            zipAlign true
        }

        debug {
        }
    }

We use product flavors to easily switch between pointing to our own dogfood and production servers:

    productFlavors {
        prod {}

        stage {}
    }

We originally had minSdkVersion 15 & targetSdkVersion 19 based on our analysis of current android versions. If you want to use new material design features available in Android 5.0+, you must set the targetSdkVersion to 21 (more details).
Handy resource to find the correct string when adding a new dependency: gradleplease.appspot.com
Gradle plugin to discover dependency updates: github

Google official Phone & Tablet stencils, Photoshop mocks, Action Bar Icons, wear materials, style guide and Color pallete - link
Sketch Material Design template - link

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