Drag and drop your way to Android programming. MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5, 2012) by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning after taking over the project from Google, is ...

I see the number of Android apps continuing to grow for the foreseeable future. At some point, maybe in 5-10 years or so, I see growth on smartphones and tablets stagnating.

Reactive programming, RxJava and RxAndroid have become increasingly familiar nomenclature within the Android app development world. For someone new to these concepts, it can appear a little bit ...

Google wants more people to learn to program — especially for its Android platform. While the company already offered a few programming courses, they were typically geared toward students with ...

He lists benefits of Scala development for Android as speed, easier programming, and the existence of a vibrant community around it. Downsides, though, include unknowns, with the practice being ...

C# is the programming language you’ll use if you opt to build a game in Unity for instance – which also happens to be the most popular and widely used game engine in the Play Store. In general ...

Android developers can use Java and XML code to define the layouts for each Activity in an application. The application resources folder holds the XML layout files as well as graphics for the GUI ...

The app is still available on Android because of global targeting. However, they are planning to develop an iOS version for the Japanese and US markets.

The tech giant stresses that this does not mean developers can’t distribute outside of the Play Store through other app ...