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

Google releases Android programming tools The software developer kit will let programmers create Java software for real or emulated Android mobile phones. Plus: a $10 million contest for coders.

Android Studio The most important piece of software for Android development is the “Integrated Development Environment,” or IDE. An IDE is essentially the program that you type your code into.

Moreover, learning Android development for beginners is simpler than you might think. Google has done everything it can to make this process as frictionless as possible, with all the tools you ...

Android app development is the process of creating software applications for devices running Google's operating system. They include smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, TVs, and car dashboards.

Java is an object-oriented programming language invented in 1995. 3 billion devices run Java software. Java: Works with every major OS Is stable/portable Is popular in back-end development ...

The little-known language—developed by software development company JetBrains —was first announced in July 2011 and only reached an official v1.0 release in February 2016.

The Android team has announced that the Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop is now stable. This release adds developer productivity enhancements, such as the ability to analyze crash reports using ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...

"Shifting away from Java, which we currently use for Android development, and over to Kotlin is not a trivial task," notes Omer Strulovich, a software engineer at Facebook.