Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps. Android Studio made its debut Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.

It's Google I/O today and as is tradition, the company is using the event to introduce the latest releases of its Android Studio development environment. Launching today are a new beta of Android ...

Although the Android OS aims to be a self-contained mobile platform, most Android apps (even those that really suck) are developed by using the Eclipse SDK, on a PC. Up to this point, it was ...

Android Studio is still a far cry from Microsoft’s Visual Studio, but it’s easy to see how Google could build it out into a competitor. Given the name and direction, however, Google seems perfectly ...

Google is betting that a more conversational, “vibey” way of writing code can pull software development out of its productivity rut and make it feel playful again. Instead of treating programming as a ...

While Android market share fluctuates over time, it still takes up more than 70% of the mobile operational systems market. Taking that there are 8 billion people on Earth and at least half of them ...

Google on Monday released Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building and managing apps. The tool, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, ...

Eric is a freelance writer and an OG 'round these parts. Since leaving Android Police, his work has been in Lifehacker, The New York Times, OneZero, PCMag, and a bunch of other places. Catch him on ...