A tutorial on how to use a web api from within an Android app. We discuss JSON, XML and Android's AsyncTask.

Many Android apps that interact with the cloud use a client – server architecture with the phone acting as a client and much of the heavy lifting taking place on the server. Sometimes you have control ...

Summary: Android 16 will require devices to support Vulcan’s new Host Image Copy feature. This will improve gaming and 3D graphics performance, and reduce stuttering. It’s not hard to see why; this ...

Google is killing off its proposal for "Web Environment Integrity API" as a new web standard, though Android phones may still have to deal with it. According to Google's proposal document, the ...

WeatherKit is not an app itself — rather, it's an API (or a framework, in Apple lingo) that's meant to replace the Dark Sky API Apple has deprecated and is planning to kill off completely by 2023.

A new update heading to Android later this year means that apps that are over two years old will need to update their API target in order to stay accessible on newer devices. Currently, Android ...