Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google and others. It’s certainly possible to just follow the well-trodden path, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Overview: Mobile application frameworks assist in faster development in a team using common code.Today, cross-platform tools support more than 40% of existing m ...

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 ...