Android Studio 2.2 has been unveiled, and it brings with it numerous changes, with Google saying the new version focuses on "speed, smarts, and Android platform support." All sorts of speed boosts are ...

Google has released a preview of the latest version of its Android Studio development environment, with a raft of new features that the company demonstrated at its I/O 2016 event. Most notable among ...

Firebase Plugin: You can add Firebase to a new or existing Android app with the new Assistant window, and access Firebase features right in the IDE (Tools => Firebase). Many of the Firebase services ...

At its core, Google I/O has always been a developer-focused event. Here are the biggest announcements that Google made during the I/O developer keynote and beyond. This post will be steadily updated ...

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 ...

Note that Studio 2.0 just shipped earlier this year, and Studio 2.1 supporting Android N came out with the preview release of that OS. The big news is the Firebase back-end platform, which began as an ...

Google I/O 2017 is rapidly approaching and taking a look at the scheduled sessions, it’s apparent that Firebase will be featuring heavily. This is something of a clue as to how Google views Firebase.

There are many different ways that you can use location data in your Android apps. Previously, we’ve seen how you can display the user’s location on a Google Map; reverse geocode coordinates into a ...

Have you ever wished there was a single platform that could handle both the creative and technical sides of app development? Enter Google Firebase Studio, an innovative tool that blends no-code ...