Android Studio creates a snapshot of the current view hierarchy of your app for you to inspect, which is particularly useful when trying to track down a bug. Firebase Plugin: You can add Firebase to a ...

At its core, Google I/O has always been a developer-focused event. Here are the biggest announcements that Google made during the I/O developer keynote and beyond. This post will be steadily updated ...

Google has released a preview of the latest version of its Android Studio development environment, with a raft of new features that the company demonstrated at its I/O 2016 event. Most notable among ...

Note that Studio 2.0 just shipped earlier this year, and Studio 2.1 supporting Android N came out with the preview release of that OS. The big news is the Firebase back-end platform, which began as an ...

In a major leap forward for cloud-based app development, Google has officially unveiled Firebase Studio, a unified, agentic environment that fuses prototyping, coding, testing, and deployment into a ...

The modern smartphone is a powerful little tool. But what makes it different from mobile phones of yesteryear is the capability to install third-party apps, letting users truly explore the machine's ...

There was a time when downloading the latest Java Development Kit (JDK) was a necessary pre-requisite for Android develpoment. Today, an open JDK comes baked into Android Studio, reducing the number ...

Google launched Android Studio 2.1 in April, but that release was mainly focused on adding Android Nougat support. Version 2.2, a preview of which was released in May at Google’s I/O 2016 developer ...