Since development on Android 16 is underway, the same is true for that release, i.e., early builds will show the platform SDK codename (Baklava) instead of the platform SDK version (36).

Extension SDK has gone public. With it, versions of Android 11 and 12 should be able to use new features that were exclusive to Android 13.

Google released the first public version of the Extension SDK, which aims to bring features of the latest Android version to older versions. Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about ...

Google has announced that its Extension SDK framework is now available for developers, letting them use some new features even in older versions of Android. The new photo picker won’t be ...

In a blog post on the Android Developers website, the company announced a new Extension SDK framework that will allow developers to offer certain features from newer versions of Android to devices ...

Apps can declare the newest version of Android they support via a "Target SDK" flag. To prevent old apps from breaking, new features and app restrictions in, say, Android 12 only apply to apps ...

At the Android Dev Summit today, Google announced Android Studio 2.0, the second major version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Version 2.0 adds Instant Run, a faster Android ...

The Android SDK, short for Android Software Developer Kit, is arguably the most powerful software utility widely used by programmers who indulge in Android app development. The Windows version of ...