Lottie: animation library to import Adobe After Effect animation for Android & iOS

Lottie looks like a very promising open source animation tool created by AirBnb to implement Adobe After Effect animation into your Android/iOS/ReactNative app.

- https://airbnb.design/lottie/

- https://medium.com/fueled-android/lottie-android-pie-for-animation-lovers-cd9d608fa039

- https://medium.com/prolific-interactive/the-design-guide-to-winning-developers-hearts-part-1-use-lottie-82545abfb06e

Repository (pattern) usage in Android with RxJava & the New York Times' Store library

There is a great article out there from The Big Nerd Ranch on using the repository pattern /w RxJava:
https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/the-rxjava-repository-pattern/

Still, if you are trying to implement the repository patter in your own project for a first time it's a lot to wrap your head around. In that case, maybe a very interesting library to take a look at is NYTimes' Store which will make implementing caching, persistant storage and reactive data loading a lot easier for you:

Github:
https://github.com/NYTimes/Store

Advanced RxJava2 for Android

These are two excellent video's for those who want to dig deeper into RxJava on Android.
Couple of interesting patterns are discussed in:

And Jake Wharton talks in depth on handling states with Rx:

Android Architecture Components: Life cycle aware components, LiveData, LifecycleFragments/Activitie, Room and google's guide to app architecture

Some great new components introduced in this Google IO talk:

Also check out github for code samples:
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-architecture-components
And google's guide to app architecture:
https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/guide.html

Android studio 3.0 coming! With 'default' Kotlin support, lambda support without need for Jack or retrolambda and more...

AI will be taking over marketing?

Interesting article on how a marketing agency got replaced by AI. Saving this for future reference:
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/why-cosabella-replaced-its-agency-ai-will-go-back-humans/1427323#FIvw6RCwHEJjje2e.01

https://albert.ai/

Interesting articles for RxJava / RxBinding in Android

For future reference. These are two interesting articles:

https://overrideandroid.blogspot.co.id/2017/03/reactive-programming-with-rxbinding.html

https://realm.io/news/donn-felker-reactive-android-ui-programming-with-rxbinding/

Foursquare launches Pilgrim SDK to let developers leverage location

saved for future reading.
This might be an interesting sdk to look into:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/01/foursquare-launches-pilgrim-sdk-to-let-developers-leverage-location/