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 ...

Google has launched Android Basics in Kotlin, a program for beginner developers that teaches them how to build Android apps. Kotlin has become one of the fastest growing languages on GitHub, in ...

The course is called the Android Basics Nanodegree, and is targeted specifically at those who have little or no programming know-how. Points covered include Java, web APIs, SQLite databases, and ...

If you already have basic Java skills, it's pretty easy to build a simple Android app. Of course, even for a simple app, there are some tricky parts to getting started.

Google has partnered with Udacity for the launch of a new Android Basics course for beginners. The course is aimed at people with little or no programming experience and will help people ...

Google: Take our free Kotlin programming language courses to build Android apps Google offers free lessons to help up-and-coming developers build Android apps using Kotlin.

Besides the basic components, such as text labels and buttons, add the LocationSensor component (found under the Sensors category) and an ActivityStarter component (found under the Other Stuff ...

James Steele and Nelson To, authors of a new book on Android programming, know a thing or two about Google's mobile OS--including the bright side of fragmentation.

At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...