Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

Packt Publishing has been doing something pretty crazy for a little over a year by giving away free developer-oriented eBooks from its collection every day. Well, almost every day – they took a few ...

Reactive programming, RxJava and RxAndroid have become increasingly familiar nomenclature within the Android app development world. For someone new to these concepts, it can appear a little bit ...

Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google ...

Android-maker Google is injecting cash to further its mission to attract more developers who can build apps for the world's most popular operating system. The advertising and tech giant has announced ...

Scala, a statically typed language running atop the Java Virtual Machine, is emerging as a development option for building Google Android applications. While developers already are aware of Java and ...

With hundreds of millions of Android devices in use today, there’s little wonder why the Android development job market continues to show strong demand. Job search website Monster.com, for example, ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, ...