Check out Android's expected 2026 update and release cycle

Android offers multiple Canary, Beta, and stable releases in a year, but what's happening when? Here's the full Android 2026 ...
Game Rant

One of Steam's Most-Played 2025 Games Is Already Getting a Spiritual Sequel

The creator of one of 2025's most-played new Steam games has another title coming out soon, which very much builds on its ...
GitHub

Building Android Apps with Java (No Android Studio)

This guide will help you build a fully functional Android app using Java only, without Android Studio. It covers setting up the environment, creating a minimal project, building debug APKs, and ...
Thurrott

Android Studio Gets a Big Gemini 3 Update

The Otter 2 Feature Drop is the final stable release of Android Studio in 2025, and it’s available now with Gemini 3, Backup and Sync, Agent Mode improvements, and other updates. “This final stable ...
Bleeping Computer

Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules

Google is backpedaling on its decision to introduce new identity verification rules for all developers, stating that it will also introduce accounts for limited app distribution and will allow users ...
Android

Google Supercharges Android Development with Gemini AI Tools

Google is rolling out a wave of new AI-powered tools for Android developers, led by Gemini integrations across Google Play and Android Studio. Developers can now use Gemini to translate and localize ...
InfoWorld

Swift SDK arrives for Android development

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple’s Swift language. Instructions for ...
SiliconANGLE

Google rolls out Android AI-powered features and updates for developers

Google LLC’s Android division today announced several artificial intelligence-powered features aimed at Android developers, offering powerful ways to build advanced intelligent apps for mobile and ...
AppleInsider

Android developers can now make apps using Apple's Swift

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.
MacRumors

Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...
Hackaday

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...