Goodbye Eclipse, hello Android Studio 1.0.. For months Google had warned Android developers that the official IDE for programming in Java against its popular mobile OS would eventually become its own ...

In Android Studio, you’ll be coding with Java and using references to the Android SDK (Software Development Kit). This lets you access things like buttons and other UI elements very easily and ...

JetBrains makes the popular IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, which is also the foundation for Google's Android Studio, as well as Kotlin, a programming language that Google officially supports for Android ...

Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action. The already ...

It’s easy to see why: Kotlin is simple to use, it’s functional and object-oriented, it’s compatible with Java, and it’s fully supported by Google as a first-class language for Android apps.

Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.

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.

Few other programming languages enjoy the same level of tooling support that Java does, which helps cement itself as the best programming language. 4. First-order Android Support. Android is the world ...