Google yesterday bumped up its official IDE for Android development to version 2.2, adding support for the company's new mobile OS, Nougat 7.0, along with a new layout editor and many other ...

It is distributed as a support library tightly coupled with Android Studio and backwards compatible to API Level 9 (Android Gingerbread). The built-in templates in the New Project Wizard now generate ...

Previously, in order to animate a layout, you had to manually modify XML. This new editor makes the process a lot easier by generating that code for you and letting you handle the actual design using ...

In a normal year, Google I/O would traditionally mark the release of a new version of Android Studio. While there hasn’t been a Google I/O event this year, the Android team has still seen fit to ...

In this post, you will learn how to use Android Studio to view and open the files that make up your projects. In doing so, you’ll gain a better understanding of how an Android app is structured. To ...

Android Studio offers a rich palette of built-in development tools, and an even more abundant plugin ecosystem. The first three articles in this series focused on installation and setup and coding and ...

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 main ...

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. If you’re new to Android Studio, this tutorial series ...