Learning to make your own Android apps isn't easy, especially if it's your first time programming anything. Do you find a tutorial and hope for the best? Sign up for classes at the local college?

Google has launched Android Basics in Kotlin, a program for beginner developers that teaches them how to build Android apps. Kotlin has become one of the fastest growing languages on GitHub, in part ...

Android Studio, like so much of Google’s product portfolio, is getting its infusion of AI today at the company’s annual I/O developer conference. Android Studio Hedgehog, the upcoming version of ...

In programming of any kind, it is traditional to create a Hello World app for your first project. This simply means you’re printing the words “Hello World” to the screen. It requires a very basic ...

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 ...

Following the preview at I/O 2025, Google is releasing an “Agent Mode” for Gemini in Android Studio. Agent Mode lets developers accomplish “complex development tasks” like generating unit tests, ...

In a normal year, Google I/O would traditionally mark the release of a new version of Android Studio. While there hasn’t been a Google I/O event this year, the Android team has still seen fit to ...