Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to Android is back with a fifth edition. It now covers Compose - but only just. You would have to be MAD to write a book on Android at the moment, but the Big Nerd guys have ...

If you want to learn the Kotlin programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos and websites. Kotlin is popular among developers — in fact, it’s the fourth “most loved” ...

When you change orientation your app is stopped and restarted. When this happens for example a TextView is reset to its default state when the app loads. This description of what is happening is ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” ...

Reactive programming, RxJava and RxAndroid have become increasingly familiar nomenclature within the Android app development world. For someone new to these concepts, it can appear a little bit ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

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 ...