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.

Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.

This post explores the most important Android developer tools, ranging from Android Studio and other IDEs, to advanced options like MLKit and Firebase.

One problem, of course, is that Android Studio was not built from scratch; it’s based on the long-in-the-tooth IntelliJ IDEA platform, a Java IDE… and, well, you can tell.

Android Studio is a developer kit that you can use to create and troubleshoot your own Android apps. We'll go over what it is (and what it isn't).

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.