There was a time when downloading the latest Java Development Kit (JDK) was a necessary pre-requisite for Android develpoment. Today, an open JDK comes baked into Android Studio, reducing the number ...

Find out what to look for in the latest version of Android Studio, including support for Kotlin, Java 8, and a wealth of new tools and plugins. If you’re new to Android Studio, this tutorial series ...

In Android Studio for beginners, Part 2, you created your first animated mobile app using Android Studio. Now, Part 3 will take you through the steps to build and run the app in an Android device ...

Very few Android projects are an island! The majority of Android projects have dependencies on a number of other components, including third party Android libraries. An Android library contains the ...

Google yesterday bumped up its official IDE for Android development to version 2.2, adding support for the company's new mobile OS, Nougat 7.0, along with a new layout editor and many other ...

Android Studio is still a far cry from Microsoft’s Visual Studio, but it’s easy to see how Google could build it out into a competitor. Given the name and direction, however, Google seems perfectly ...