Although Android already has a sandboxed Linux terminal available, this Google model will be geared toward developers.

James Steele and Nelson To, authors of a new book on Android programming, know a thing or two about Google's mobile OS--including the bright side of fragmentation.

By Precy February 4, 2021 September 3, 2023 The Android mobile platform, originally based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, has created huge ripples in the mobile industry.

After over 16 years, Google is making big changes to how it develops the open source version of Android in an effort to streamline its development. You’re reading an Authority Insights story.

When new versions of Android are done, Google says it will continue to publish the source code in AOSP as always. Supposedly, this will allow developers to focus on supporting their apps without ...

Google plans to move all development of Android OS behind closed doors so that the process will no longer be visible to the public. This change is a big shift for Android, which has long allowed ...

In an interview with Android Police Editor-in-Chief, James Peckham, Google's Head of Android explained how this and other development factors are evolving: ...

Android GUI Programming. Android applications use a range of standard platform resources for designing and programming user interfaces. Android applications use classes in the Java language to ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...