The Big Nerd Ranch Blog

Developers are excited about official support for Kotlin on Android, but what does this mean for business owners? Is this a positive change, or a burden?

Chris has been lucky enough to read the 3rd edition of *Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide* early (because he helped write it) and now he wants to tell you about it.

When the design support library dropped a few months ago, Android developers were given all kinds of goodies. But there is something mysterious lurking in the design support library. Something that has its tentacles throughout the library. This mysterious thing is the `CoordinatorLayout`.

Splash screens just exist to waste your time, right? I have to stare at some picture for three seconds until I can use the app. And I have to do this every time it’s launched. I know which app I opened. I know what it does. Just let me use it!

Android developers spend a lot of time developing tablet versions of their applications.