I very much like writing stories on Medium to share about Android. But I spend many time also on reading stories of other people. Here is what I read and like this week.

The stories to read

For the first one, it is not a Medium story this time but an Android book. It is a little bit outdated, but it is to my point of view an excellent way to start Android development for absolute beginners.

This is a short but very interesting article. I especially appreciated the part about what to learn now, which contains interesting new things, and role of ML in Android.

Many times I tried to develop Gradle Plugins, but when it came to debugging, it was a nightmare. This story provides an easy and efficient way to debug Gradle Plugins when you are developing some.

Machine Learning is the future (or present) of Android Development, and I’m starting having a real interest for it. Great to find an article which is clear enough with a concrete example easy to follow.

Even if I’m not using it a lot, it is great to remember that there are great and free alternatives to Google Maps API. Especially when it comes to a successfully app and you don’t want to pay the huge pricing plan of Google Maps API.

YOU MUST USE ConstraintLayout. It is just amazing what you can do with it. If you’re not familiar with it, follow those two great articles.

It is not because it mentions my story, but this architecture looks really interesting. To be honest, I didn’t have time enough to follow this article fully, but just reading it quickly makes me want to really explore it and find the best advantages of this architecture.

The person to follow on Medium

I’m talking about his stories two weeks in a row, and of course, Jarosław Michalik deserves to get more followers when considering the quality of his stories.

The person to follow on Twitter

A good author on Medium, really active on Twitter for tweets sharing stories as well as humor tweets, you must follow this guy.