Android development starts with the Android SDK - a collection of tools needed to build any kind of Android app. Discover what's included and how to use it.

James Steele and Nelson To, authors of a new book on Android programming, know a thing or two about Google's mobile OS--including the bright side of fragmentation.

Android Game Programming by Example isn't focused on picking up a commercial game engine and writing scripts, it covers building 2D games mostly from scratch and dives into critical topics like ...

The Kinect programming for this tutorial has been done with the Tegra Ventana development kit for Android 3.0. An Ubuntu-Linux installation is used, but this technique should be portable to any ...

For example, you can use Xamarin to develop apps that work for Windows Phone, Android, or iOS. These apps can share most of their code, though the code for the user interface is specific to each OS.

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar ...

The App Inventor for Android is powerful, easy, and fun. In fact, it's a bit of a gateway drug to hardcore Android programming.

With version 0.9 of the software development kit, programmers get better compatibility with real Android phones due next quarter--but no Bluetooth interface.

At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.