A neat, tidy way to use animated GIFs in Android apps as easily as static images using GifAnimatedDrawable.

Include Android Bitmaps in your library JAR files with BinaryDrawable.

Hipmob allows you to add live support and real-time user-to-user chat to your Android or iOS mobile app (or web application) in less than 15 minutes. Couple is a simple user-to-user chat app built on Hipmob (and open-sourced) that discusses the concepts behind the Hipmob platform and shows how to use Hipmob's user-to-user and push notification functionality in your application.

Hipmob allows you to add live support and user chat to your Android or iOS mobile app in less than 15 minutes. Parse provides a powerful backend-as-a-service for your mobile app. See how we mix the 2 to leverage Hipmob's ease of use and Parse's powerful targeted push notifications on the Android platform.

Email is still the dominant way of communicating online: why shouldn't your app get in on the action? We discuss Hipmob's new email integration that gives every install of your app an email address of its very own, and what you can do with that email address.

Heroku's log drains let you see all your log events from multiple Heroku applications in a single stream: why not extend the same love to the rest of your (non-Heroku) infrastructure? We discuss how we built and setup a Node JS server to stream log files to the same server as our Heroku logs, significantly simplifying our debugging tasks.