A milestone for Android development tools was reached on December 8, 2014. After two years in the making, Android Studio graduated from RC status to an official 1.0 release. The most obvious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unfortunately, for those of us who have become accustomed to Eclipse, warts and all, knowing Android Studio is a better ...

Google announced on Tuesday that after two years of work, it is finally ready to release its IntelliJ-based integrated development environment (IDE), Android Studio, to the wider world with its 1.0 ...

Google announces that Eclipse Android Developer Tools kit will no longer be officially supported by the company for Android app creation. This afternoon Jamal Eason, Product Manager for Android, made ...

Goodbye Eclipse, hello Android Studio 1.0. For months Google had warned Android developers that the official IDE for programming in Java against its popular mobile OS would eventually become its own ...

When Android started out, it didn't burst into the scene fully formed and complete. That was true for the platform itself and especially its development tools, with Android development practically ...

Life for an Android developer has always been pretty straightforward. You downloaded Eclipse and installed the Android Developer Tools. The tools did the job, and ...

Android Studio has been the de facto way to develop Android apps for some time now, with many app developers swearing by it, including most of the developers behind the top 125 apps in the Play Store.

To streamline Android development efforts, Google will focus on building tools for Android Studio. The company will also stop supporting other Integrated Development Environments (IDE) at the end of ...

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