In the world of Android development, you need to connect your computer to your phone, usually via a USB cable, in order to transmit your app to your phone. To simplify and modernize this process, ...

Android devices including Samsung’s Galaxy flagship smartphones and tablets pack lots of hidden features that are specifically intended for tech savvy users. Many of these features are lined up in the ...

When it comes time to debug your Xamarin Android apps, you have several options. You can debug your application in an emulator or on your own smartphone. Your phone can be connected to your computer ...

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One of the commonly used developer tools in Android smartphones is the USB Debugging mode. When enabled, it allows recently programmed apps to be copied to the device via USB connection. This is ...

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 ...

There are many reasons to enable USB debugging on your Android device. For example, it allows you to sideload apps from outside of the official Google store via your computer. According to ...

In a recent post, I drew analogies between Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and Apple's Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows. Although the conclusion of that prior writeup was generally favorable to ...