He lists benefits of Scala development for Android as speed, easier programming, and the existence of a vibrant community around it. Downsides, though, include unknowns, with the practice being ...

Drag and drop your way to Android programming. MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5, 2012) by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning after taking over the project from Google, is ...

Google is introducing a developer verification program for Android apps, requiring all developers to be verified to install ...

Murach's Android Programming by Joel Murach provides a comprehensive coverage of the various concepts associated with the development of Android applications with the help of source codes ...

Google wants more people to learn to program — especially for its Android platform. While the company already offered a few programming courses, they were typically geared toward students with ...

At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...

James Steele and Nelson To, authors of a new book on Android programming, know a thing or two about Google's mobile OS--including the bright side of fragmentation. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

To jump-start the Android programming effort, Google is offering $10 million total in prizes, each ranging from $25,000 to $275,000, to programmers picked by a panel of judges.