Android layouts create a screen where you place your customized icons and images. By default, the Android layout auto-sizes images, but you have the option to make images smaller. You size images ...

Android’s multitasking story is finally catching up with the hardware it runs on, and the next wave of changes looks less like a tweak and more like a reset. Between new system features, aggressive ...

In the latest Android 16 beta release, Google Pixel phones are adding support for the same navigation button layout as ...

Every mobile app has some form of user interface (UI), and in Android user interfaces are created using Views. If you’re just getting started with Android development, then it makes sense to ...

Thanks to Kevin Darty (@kdarty) and Andy May (@MantaMay) for their ideas relating to this article. There's no doubt about it: Smartphones based on the Android OS are hot. Currently, they're generating ...

Android 13 is set to deliver on no fewer than two separate screen layouts for an improved experience on foldable devices. That’s based on reports centered on the first Android 13 Developer Preview ...

App widgets can be thought of as a small window or controller for an Android app that can be embedded in another application (like the homescreen). They can be very useful, allowing users to view or ...

One of the interesting things you notice when using Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet is the setup the Android 4.1 platform provides — namely that the tablet’s UI more closely resembles an Android ...