Google wants more people to learn to program — especially for its Android platform. While the company already offered a few programming courses, they were typically geared toward students with at ...

The Android mobile platform, originally based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, has created huge ripples in the mobile industry. After all, it is one of the most used mobile operating systems ...

The Kinect has been hacked for many purposes, but this Android implementation tutorial is the first we’ve heard of it being used on a mobile phone platform. Although not a finished product at this ...

With version 0.9 of the software development kit, programmers get better compatibility with real Android phones due next quarter--but no Bluetooth interface. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Reactive programming, RxJava and RxAndroid have become increasingly familiar nomenclature within the Android app development world. For someone new to these concepts, it can appear a little bit ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...