Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Constraint Layout: This flexible layout manager allows you to create dynamic user interfaces without nesting multiple layouts. It is distributed as a support library tightly coupled with Android ...

As you probably know Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for creating Android apps. It includes everything you need to design the user interface of your app, plus ...

Google yesterday bumped up its official IDE for Android development to version 2.2, adding support for the company's new mobile OS, Nougat 7.0, along with a new layout editor and many other ...

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 ...