Non-game Android apps are normally written in Java, but a group inside Google is experimenting with a whole new way of writing Android apps using Dart, Google's in-house Web development language ...

What’s new in Android Studio 3.x. Find out what to look for in the latest version of Android Studio, including support for Kotlin, Java 8, and a wealth of new tools and plugins.

Google is continuing to implement support for Java 8 in its Android mobile OS, last week issuing Android Studio 2.4 Preview 6, which fixes numerous bugs associated with the company's new way of ...

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A group of Google developers is working on Sky, a Dart-based “experimental, high-performance UI framework for mobile apps.” The majority of Android apps are written in Java, but Sky makes use ...

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.

Google has released the stable build of Android Studio 4.0, its newest official integrated development environment (IDE) for building Android apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. The three ...

IDG. Figure 3. A stateful widget example. Flutter and Dart. Flutter is powered by Dart, a language optimized for fast apps on any platform.Dart looks rather like Java, Kotlin, Swift, and ...

In this tutorial we go through the steps needed to build your first Android app. You will create a simple UI, add some Java code, and then run your app.

Google cooks up an experimental way to write Android apps with a focus on speed. Read the whole story ...