Google being able to ban developers operating outside the Play Store transforms Android into an iOS-like walled garden. When ...

Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google and others. It’s certainly possible to just follow the ...

Early returns on the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” software development kit have developers praising the unified perspective and capabilities of the Google mobile OS — but their ability ...

Google has delivered updates for developers that improve adaptive UI design, AI‑assisted creativity, and faster iteration ...

Samsung’s One UI 7 update focuses on better widgets, prompting Google to urge third-party developers to do the same. Google is heavily promoting widgets, with plans for widget search filters, a ...

Jetpack Compose, Google's UI toolkit for helping developers "build beautiful UI across all Android platforms," is available in alpha.

Google introduced the Material Design paradigm during its IO 2014 developer event. Since then, they have actively encouraged all android app developers to ensure their apps conform to the Material ...

Android development may have started as a grab bag of poorly integrated libraries with no documentation and running it all in a bad IDE, but things have really turned around over the years ...

Latest version of Android Studio uses Jetpack Compose and Material 3 for new projects by default, introduces live editing for UIs as an experimental feature.