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Android
An open-source mobile development platform from Google
Build mobile apps for all your Android devices.
27 February 2024
Tutorial
Developing your first Android application
Learn the basics of developing mobile Android apps using Android Studio. Learn the architecture, the standard files, and the key elements of an Android user interface.
27 February 2024
Tutorial
Build dynamic user interfaces with Android and XML
This tutorial introduces a simple architecture for designing Android applications with dynamic user interfaces that allow non-programmers to collect data from mobile users. You will create an example forms engine in this tutorial with both server and mobile sides.
22 March 2023
Tutorial
Design & build with Carbon
Welcome to Carbon! This tutorial will guide you in creating a React app with the Carbon Design System. We’ll teach you the ins and outs of using Carbon components, while introducing web development best practices along the way.
30 April 2021
Tutorial
Use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) APIs to build IoT connected devices
Use the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) APIs to connect a mobile web app using Java on an Android device to a remote Arduino device.
17 December 2020
Tutorial
Developing full-stack, cross-platform mobile apps using React Native
As you build this app, you'll learn how React Native works and how you can use it for building all kinds of apps on your native platform.
26 April 2019
Tutorial
Deliver hybrid Android applications with JSON
This two-part article series examines techniques for handling two of the most common data formats found on the Internet today, XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), on the Android platform. Part 2 examines the manner in which Webkit-hosted JavaScript code exchanges data with Java code in an Android application. This article focuses on JSON, which is demonstrated as the most capable and flexible approach.
21 March 2019
Tutorial
Explore the benefits of JSON and XML in Android applications
Explore techniques for handling two of the most common data formats used on the Internet, XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), on the Android platform. This first part covers the basics of XML and JSON and shows you how to build an Android application that parses and displays a Twitter status-update feed provided in both formats.
18 October 2018
Tutorial
Developing full-stack mobile apps for Android
Build an Android application from scratch using the Android SDK and the Kotlin language.
18 October 2018
Learning Path
Getting started with mobile development on Android
This learning path introduces you to full-stack mobile development, presents basic mobile design methodologies, and lets you get hands-on by building a full-stack mobile app for Android using the Android SDK and Kotlin.
30 May 2018
Article
Introduction to Android development
Learn about the depth and breadth of the Android platform.
