Drag and drop your way to Android programming. MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5, 2012) by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning after taking over the project from Google, is ...

Android applications use a range of standard platform resources for designing and programming user interfaces. Android applications use classes in the Java language to implement various aspects of ...

As the common myth goes, the average human utilizes only about 10% of the true potential their smartphone is capable of. Especially when it comes to electronics projects, it seems that we often ...

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

The software developer kit will let programmers create Java software for real or emulated Android mobile phones. Plus: a $10 million contest for coders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Which Android streaming box is best? Fans of the Android operating system on a smartphone will appreciate the ability to use that same interface on a TV streaming box. An Android streaming box gives ...

Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference. The ...

At just $69 with 4K HDR, voice search, and Google Cast capabilities, the Mi Box is the first Android TV device with mainstream appeal. Xiaomi’s Mi Box, the cheapest 4K HDR streaming box on the market, ...

The Mi Box is Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi’s play to take on devices like Roku, Apple TV, Android TV and Fire TV. Priced at only $69, and sporting features like integrated Google Cast and voice ...

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 ...

Google’s Android TV platform has been around for nearly seven years, but it’s only taken on traction in the past two or three. The reason? Primarily, hardware has been hard to find and, more ...