Your career goals and personal interests should guide your choice of a first programming language, not just what’s popular.

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Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated ...

Android's open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The magic of GitHub Desktop is that it hides much of the Git plumbing from the user, so ...

Google Drive is an immensely popular cloud storage service, and one of the most generous free tools on the market. It’s powerful and easy to use, but learning how to use Google Drive can be ...

The founder and original developer of Nova Launcher, Kevin Barry, has announced his departure from the project. Barry confirms that the current owner of Nova won't be releasing the launcher's source ...

Russia will require Max messenger on all smartphones and tablets from September 1. This is to tighten control over digital communications. Max is a 'national messenger' integrating with official ...

Android developers using third-party app stores will soon need their identity confirmed by Google. Android developers using third-party app stores will soon need their identity confirmed by Google. ...