This guide will help you build a fully functional Android app using Java only, without Android Studio. It covers setting up the environment, creating a minimal project, building debug APKs, and ...

Google looks to be adding an option in Android 17 that will allow users to remap the controls for games to whatever buttons they want on a connected controller. This is something that is technically ...

Having an Android smartphone or tablet is a joy, but sometimes things tend to get more complicated than you might imagine. Do you always take good care of your device? Before thinking that your ...

Restarting an Android device is easy: you press the power button in combination with either the volume up or down button, and tap Restart in the power menu. But what if one of those buttons isn't ...

Android phones and tablets come in all shapes and sizes, and they're often among the best smartphones on the market. However, even the best tech still runs into issues sometimes. A reboot is usually ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

In May 2024, Google adjusted the release schedule for Android Studio to release new features more quickly. But that wasn’t fast enough. And so now it’s accelerating the release schedule for its ...

Button Whacker is a casual mobile game where players tap randomly activated buttons within a 5x5 grid under time constraints. The project was designed to practice key Android development concepts such ...

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Google LLC’s Android Studio got a significant upgrade Monday with an experimental capability that can handle complex developmental tasks by just chatting with Gemini, the company’s flagship artificial ...

Following the preview at I/O 2025, Google is releasing an “Agent Mode” for Gemini in Android Studio. Agent Mode lets developers accomplish “complex development tasks” like generating unit tests, ...

Agent Mode is a new experimental mode in Android Studio that can help developers with more complex tasks than Gemini alone. “At Google I/O 2025, we offered a glimpse into our work on agentic AI in ...