Extension SDK has gone public. With it, versions of Android 11 and 12 should be able to use new features that were exclusive to Android 13.

Since development on Android 16 is underway, the same is true for that release, i.e., early builds will show the platform SDK codename (Baklava) instead of the platform SDK version (36).

Google released the first public version of the Extension SDK, which aims to bring features of the latest Android version to older versions. Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about ...

Google has announced that its Extension SDK framework is now available for developers, letting them use some new features even in older versions of Android. The new photo picker won’t be ...

After two years of development, Google today released Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aimed at Android developers.

Apps can declare the newest version of Android they support via a "Target SDK" flag. To prevent old apps from breaking, new features and app restrictions in, say, Android 12 only apply to apps ...

The Android SDK, short for Android Software Developer Kit, is arguably the most powerful software utility widely used by programmers who indulge in Android app development. The Windows version of ...

What’s new in Android Studio 3.x. Find out what to look for in the latest version of Android Studio, including support for Kotlin, Java 8, and a wealth of new tools and plugins.