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A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds of high-performing applications for handsets running the platform. Android ...

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...

Overview: Mobile application frameworks assist in faster development in a team using common code.Today, cross-platform tools support more than 40% of existing m ...

"Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine. The NDK allows you to implement parts of your applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...

There was a time when you had to choose between creating universal mobile apps and native apps. Universal apps used web technologies like HTML and JavaScript, which often performed badly in mobile ...

The annual number of memory safety vulnerabilities in Android dropped from 223 in 2019 to 85 in 2022 as Google gradually transitioned towards memory-safe languages. The tech giant made the ...

Google is reportedly working on a ‘Panlingual’ feature for Android 13. This would let you choose languages on a per-app basis. Android has pretty solid language support already, but it turns out that ...