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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference. The ...

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 ...

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.