Android Studio offers a rich palette of built-in development tools, and an even more abundant plugin ecosystem. The first three articles in this series focused on installation and setup and coding and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Android development relies on a number of different tools, whether you choose to go the “official” route or opt instead to use one of the countless other methods available. In fact, with so many ...

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 ...