Android Studio 3.1 is officially live in the stable channel, and it brings a wealth of new features and optimizations, including a new Android Emulator that can use custom frames or no frame at all, ...

The modern smartphone is a powerful little tool. But what makes it different from mobile phones of yesteryear is the capability to install third-party apps, letting users truly explore the machine's ...

Sometimes, you need to store more complex data in your app than just simple key/value pairs saved with a text file or Shared Preferences. Databases are ideal for storing complex data structures and ...

There was a time when downloading the latest Java Development Kit (JDK) was a necessary pre-requisite for Android develpoment. Today, an open JDK comes baked into Android Studio, reducing the number ...

The release today of Android Studio Dolphin is focused on Jetpack Compose, the toolkit for native UI; Wear OS, the operating system for wearable devices; and on development productivity. The Jetpack ...