Tools of the Trade

Explore the often-overlooked support tools in the Android developer arsenal in this 28-minute Devoxx conference talk. Discover how to leverage annotations to enhance methods and classes, enabling Lint and Android Studio to detect errors more effectively. Learn to utilize IntelliJ annotations for defining contracts, allowing the IDE to preemptively warn about potential issues. Master the tools namespace to manipulate even the most complex XML resources. Gain insights into lint attributes, showing attributes, XML attributes, Nullable annotations, Resource IDs, Colorants, Typedef, Thread and UI Thread annotations, Permissions, and ProGuard. Elevate your Android development skills by harnessing these powerful yet underutilized tools.