Mishaal Rahman discovered this new API and brought it to my attention. He had been using the shell command for it to test out different resource values in Android 12 without having to manually compile ...

Way back in 2018, Google released Android Pie. Among the UI changes and new features, there were also some developer-side changes. Those changes included new APIs, bugfixes for existing APIs, and also ...

Google has been steadily adding enterprise management capabilities to the Android OS, but it's not always clear how tools and technologies differ from one another or how IT can effectively administer ...

Mobile applications don’t operate in isolation. Behind every login screen, payment flow, and push notification sits a network of APIs quietly moving data between the app, the backend, and third-party ...

One of the key features of Android is the freedom to install apps from any source. You can do so via the Play Store, alternative app stores, or APK files. However ...

Last year, popular developer, Mishaal Rahman stated that Google will introduce the BatteryManager API in the Android 14 system. He claimed that this feature can display the number of charging cycles, ...

APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

Since the early days of the OS, widgets for Android have allowed users to engage with their favourite apps, from the comfort of their homescreen. So how do you create an Android widget? For the ...

On November 15, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the high-profile, long-running legal battle between Oracle and Google related to Google’s use of a Java application programming ...