Android creator Andy Rubin announced Monday he was taking a one-month leave of absence as CEO of the smartphone company Essential for “personal reasons.” The decision was made public shortly after The ...

Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google and others. It’s certainly possible to just follow the well-trodden path, ...

Interested in developing your own Android app? We’ll walk you through getting your computer set up for app development and how to get started. Image: Peter Holden/TalkAndroid Editorial Note: Talk ...

Simple Mobile Tools is the developer behind a suite of open source Android apps that live up to their name, with simple, ad-free user interfaces and features. Simple Voice Recorder has long been my go ...

RenderScript provides a framework for running high-performance, compute-intensive tasks on Google’s Android mobile platform. Developed in 2009 by Jason Sams, RenderScript features a runtime to ...

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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a ...

Android TV is adding another popular service this week with the arrival of an official app for the service Nebula, which has been growing on content made by various YouTube creators. While YouTube is ...