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The first ever droidcon Toronto is happening November 13th.

Toronto has an amazing Android developer community and we have been looking for ways to expand our global community of Android developers to Canada for quite some time. Several years ago we started in Montreal, but have been absent for a few years. We recently were contacted by the organizers of Canada's longest running Android conference, AndroidTO.

AndroidTO has been running for 9 years now and was first organized by the fantastic team at SYBMILITY INTERSECT. They have brought the best in Android to the community with talks from Google, Tunblr, Cyanogen, Facebook, Adobe and more. They are passionate about supporting the community and share our same values. When we started talking with the team there, we realized that we shared the same purpose and wanted to bring the support of our Berlin-based headquarters team to ensure that we continue to bring the best of Android to Toronto.

We are excited to partner with the local team there and organizer Jeff Corcoran who has spoken at droidcon in the past and is a long-time community advocate and community organizer.

Here is the new look at feel of droidcon Toronto. We hope you like it. More coming soon...

ViewStub - On-demand inflate view or lazily inflate layout resource

By Kishan Maurya

Sometimes while developing an application, we have encountered a situation like based on some logic, we have to render some new view in the layout that is rarely used. A general approach for this is to make View visibility GONE/VISIBLE. So always inflating this rarely used view in a layout, is not a good idea and also it impacts the rendering of the layout. So what to do in this case?

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Connecting The Dots

By Tomáš Mlynarič

Android Developers team finally @Provides opinion about dependency injection and the winner is Dagger. From my perspective, Dagger is “not great, not terrible”, but it scales well and when properly set up, you don't need to “touch” it later. In this article, I'll try to explain how to setup Dagger to work with ViewModel and SavedState module in the most universal way — set it once, use for ever.

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ProAndroidDev Rebranding

We are excited to announce a fresh new look for ProAndroidDev! Our new design goal was to better match how we look to our values and the readers we serve.

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Lessons learned with a personal application

By Igor Escodro

Learning new released libraries is great, but applying it right away in your professional project can be very dangerous: the libraries are released on alpha, with some bugs and lacking stability. One way of keeping updated with the latest technologies without compromising the production code is having a personal application to be used as playground.

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