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Not a big fan of Java? Well, get over it, because that's the primary and recommended way to write applications for Android devices. It's portable and... what's that? Android's Dalvik Java VM not fast ...

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At its big I/O conference, Google today introduced the Android Studio 1.3 Preview so mobile developers can begin to play with the new features coming in M, the next version of the Android OS. The new ...

Last week's release of the Android Native Development Kit could spur interest in an Android version of Fennec, the Firefox-based mobile browser. Last Thursday, Google's Android developers announced ...

Is the Holy Grail of cross-platform code-sharing for iOS and Android mobile apps attainable? Dropbox doesn't think so -- at least not with C++. The enterprise storage specialist has abandoned its ...

It was two years ago at Google I/O 2013 that the company originally announced Android Studio, a new integrated development environment (IDE) for Android apps. Six months ago, Google announced that the ...