Last Wednesday’s post was about Oracle’s choice (or failure to make one) about which of the various IDEs it’s created/inherited to support. It’s an important issue, but one largely of interest to the ...

I'm taking a programming class that focuses on Java. I have Net Beans (class preference) and Eclipse (my preference) on my Mac. I have to go on a trip for a week, and I want to spend my downtime ...

Google has released App Inventor for Android, a new Java development environment aimed at the recently oft-targeted non-coder developer who wants to build an app for the Android operating system. It's ...

The Microsoft Open Technologies group (MS Open Tech) has released an initial preview of a new plugin for JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE and the open-source Android Studio IDE, which is based on the ...

There are multiple ways to approach Android Development but by far the most official and powerful is to use Android Studio. This is the official IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the ...

Android Studio is still a far cry from Microsoft’s Visual Studio, but it’s easy to see how Google could build it out into a competitor. Given the name and direction, however, Google seems perfectly ...