In a nutshell, an Activity can be thought of as a “screen-full” of content on your phone or tablet – a page, as it were, of a particular application. Think of an email application, for example, that ...

To demonstrate multi-touch, we’re going to build a simple image viewer application that lets you zoom in and scroll around an image. See Part 1 for a screenshot of the finished product. Begin by ...

The announcement of Android 12L came as a bit of a surprise for many of us. While we were expecting a minor upgrade to Android 12, we were instead presented with a bigger feature drop that’s targeted ...

Android “fragmentation” is back in the news this week, thanks to the Angry Birds game needing to release two different versions for Android. But I have a better one: Google itself needing to make two ...

Brady Snyder is a technology journalist that has written about mobile devices and computers for multiple publications for over two years. He graduated from St. John's University with a B.S. in ...