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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Is there way to save the layout of icons and widgets in Android? So if you acceidentally remove a widget, you can get it back without having to drag it back on the screen? My ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

Android Studio creates a snapshot of the current view hierarchy of your app for you to inspect, which is particularly useful when trying to track down a bug. Firebase Plugin: You can add Firebase to a ...