Visit the Android Developers site to download and install the Android System Development Kit, or SDK (see Resources). To install the SDK, double-click the downloaded archive to extract the contents.

Previously, you'd have to download Android Studio or the SDK to get these, which are a 400MB-1.6GB download. Even the smaller command line tools download is still 200-300MB.

It will take a moment for the list to update, and then the API 22 SDK can be selected for download. For most developers, Android 5.1 doesn't bring many new APIs.

The Android Game SDK is a new set of libraries from Google, designed to help facilitate better game development. Or at least, that is what it promises to be in the not-too-distant future.

Introduced with Android 10, Modular System Components enable updating end-user devices outside of the normal Android release cycles. The new Extension SDK framework, now public, aims to make their int ...

Just as we’ve finished writing about some really cool features that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has, Google has decided to make available for download the Android 4.1 SDK (software development kit).

Google has tried to compress feature rollout times through programs like Project Mainline, which was introduced with Android 10 to make the operating system more modular and push features through ...