A milestone for Android development tools was reached on December 8, 2014. After two years in the making, Android Studio graduated from RC status to an official 1.0 release. The most obvious ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Goodbye Eclipse, hello Android Studio 1.0. For months Google had warned Android developers that the official IDE for programming in Java against its popular mobile OS would eventually become its own ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

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Android Studio has been the de facto way to develop Android apps for some time now, with many app developers swearing by it, including most of the developers behind the top 125 apps in the Play Store.

In other words, you can not only build vanilla Java programs but quickly create Android-oriented code, and its testing is supported by emulators (the virtual devices) that show you how your code would ...

When developing Android programs in Eclipse you can use features like hover-help (hover your mouse over a class name and Eclipse will display the JavaDoc for that class) and code completion (press ...