Without any doubt, Android is the world’s most commonly used mobile operating system. To many, it presents quite an opportunity and a large, lucrative market for app developers. Creating top-notch and ...

One of the awesome things about being an Android developer is just how accessible it is, in terms of how easy it is to get started and how easy it is to distribute apps to users. To me, it feels like ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

Reto Meier's Professional Android 2 Application Development is pretty good if you need an overview. He's one of the platform engineers. Personally, I just read the Dev Guide and Resources Sections at ...

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...

To run Android apps on a Mac, use emulators like Android Studio or Genymotion. Install Android Studio from Google’s website, set up a virtual device, and run apps via the Google Play Store.