Previously, in order to animate a layout, you had to manually modify XML. This new editor makes the process a lot easier by generating that code for you and letting you handle the actual design using ...

Google yesterday bumped up its official IDE for Android development to version 2.2, adding support for the company's new mobile OS, Nougat 7.0, along with a new layout editor and many other ...

Android Studio creates a snapshot of the current view hierarchy of your app for you to inspect, which is particularly useful when trying to track down a bug. Firebase Plugin: You can add Firebase to a ...

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Google has released a preview of the latest version of its Android Studio development environment, with a raft of new features that the company demonstrated at its I/O 2016 event. Most notable among ...

Find out what to look for in the latest version of Android Studio, including support for Kotlin, Java 8, and a wealth of new tools and plugins. If you’re new to Android Studio, this tutorial series ...

Google announced Android Studio 3.3 with a focus on "refinement and quality" over new features, though a host of those have been introduced also. "Android Studio 3.3 release introduces Navigation ...

Google Android Studio 4.0 is now official. Highlights of this release include the new Motion editor; build analyzer which can analyze the reasons for the slower build speed. At the same time, the CPU ...

Google has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in ...

It is distributed as a support library tightly coupled with Android Studio and backwards compatible to API Level 9 (Android Gingerbread). The built-in templates in the New Project Wizard now generate ...