The Jack Compiler, a developer tool available from Google that stands for “Java Android Compiler Kit” has been updated for support for Java 8 and with that comes more instructions and cleaner ...

While Google is committed to C++, Java, and Kotlin for Android development, if you ask for a recommendation, the team will say Kotlin. Nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android apps now use Kotlin.

The IDE now supports Java 8 language features in Android N, including lambda expressions and method references. It improves Instant Run, although the Jack compiler currently does not support it.

Google today released the alpha version of Jetpack Compose, its UI toolkit for helping developers “build beautiful UI across all Android platforms, with native access to the platform APIs.” ...

Google LLC today launched the alpha release of Jetpack Compose, a development tool it has built to speed up the creation of Android apps. The search giant debuted an early preview version of ...