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awesome-android-release-notes
Awesome Android Release Notes is a useful directory for a developer to keep up-to-date with all the things related with Android software development.
https://github.com/pedronveloso/awesome-android-release-notes
- Google Plus Developer announcements page
- Android Wear release notes here - `monthly`
- Details about **behavioral changes**
- Wikipedia page - Contains an overview of the version history of Android Wear
- Release notes - `twice a month`
- Chromecast Firmware versions
- Android TV Developer Announcements on Google Plus - This is the closest thing to official release notes
- Android Things - release notes
- GitHub page - Official samples
- Build Numbers webpage - Check the relation between Android **Codenames** (*Nougat, ...*), with **API Versions** (*25,..*), **Android Version** (*7.1,...*) and other things like **Source Code Tags** for each device release (*N6F26Q,...*) and their branch name
- Android Dashboards - This one gets updated every week and display **global stats** on the distribution of **Android versions**, **Screen densities** and others
- Android Open-Source Project repositories - If you're feel like diving into the source of all of the things that make up the **AOSP**
- Google Samples GitHub - Google provided repositories and projects, a great way to explore and improve your integration with their products and APIs
- Google Developers Medium page - The **Medium's page of Google Developers** offers a great array of articles regarding development, it is not exclusive to Android but still worth checking out
- **Factory Images** here
- OTA (*Over-The-Air*) binaries - to-date without resetting it. This is basically the same update your device gets when it automatically prompts you to update itself, this behavior can take longer depending on how Google decides to roll-out the update so basically with this you can force that update sooner onto your device.
- Google Android Developers Blog - `Weekly`
- Android Developers YouTube channel - Also contains a playlist of Android related Google I/O videos - `Weekly`
- Official Android Mailling Lists and IRC information
- Awesome Android Performance - A good directory that is kept up-to-date relating to **Android applications performance**
- Android tips and tricks GitHub - A GitHub page that gets frequent contributions and serves as a directory for tips, tricks and tools. Definately worth checking out!
- Android Weekly - A **weekly newsletter** to stay up-to-date with Android Development
- AndroidDev Digest - Another **weekly newsletter** regarding Android Development
- Realm News Blog - Realm invites known developers to talk about varied topics related with Android development and provides the video sessions afterwards for free - `weekly`
- Android Studio - `monthly`
- New Jill and Jack build system
- SDK Tools - Android Studio informs you of updates to this one by default as well, check this release log to see what the update brings exactly
- SDK Build Tools - Check this one to keep the **buildToolsVersion** of your *gradle build file* up-to-date. `monthly`
- Android Plugin for Gradle - Reading this one is a great way to stay informed about **new flags**, **properties** and other changes to of the **Gradle build syntax**
- SDK Platform Tools - Contains updates to the command line tools used for development such as *adb*, *fastboot* and *systrace*.
- Android NDK release notes - `twice a year`
- Gradle release log - Android is always behind the current Gradle release, but it is worth checking this website for more in-depth understanding of each new version that Android supports and for the curious to peek into what's coming next :)
- IntelliJ Release Blog - Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA, some even prefer to stick with that instead of Studio as they work similarly if you have the Android plugin enabled. Check this to know new **features and tips** about the IDE, they usually work on Studio as well
- **Google Play Services SDK**
- full up-to-date list here
- latest changes here - compatibility**, various aspects and components of **material design**, **TV and Media Playback**, etc.
- changes in JUnit4