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 ...

In Android Studio for beginners, Part 2, you created your first animated mobile app using Android Studio. Now, Part 3 will take you through the steps to build and run the app in an Android device ...

There was a time when you had to choose between creating universal mobile apps and native apps. Universal apps used web technologies like HTML and JavaScript, which often performed badly in mobile ...

Ever wanted to be an Android developer? Perhaps you just have an idea for an app that you’d like to develop? Either way, this guide to Android development for beginners will set you on your way! Also ...

With three major mobile platforms to choose from, what is an ambitious mobile app developer to do? There are Android and iOS, with 700,000 available apps each and huge market exposure — and the fierce ...

Xamarin is a cross platform tool for building Android and iOS apps using Visual Studio (VS). It can potentially save you vast amounts of time by allowing you to build an app with a single code base ...

Google has released the second 'developer preview' of the next version of its smartphone operating system, Android N. The company said that Android N Developer Preview 2 fixes bugs in the previous ...

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While most technology advancement has been evolutionary, a lot of recent innovation has been more disruptive. Despite – or perhaps because of – a trend to openness and common standards, the ...

Android has made two recent strides forward that are huge for app developers: the release of the Marshmallow update and the newly minted Android Studio 2.0. Both of these technological advances signal ...