A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds of high-performing applications for handsets running the platform. Android ...

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Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...

Overview: Mobile application frameworks assist in faster development in a team using common code.Today, cross-platform tools support more than 40% of existing m ...

"Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine. The NDK allows you to implement parts of your applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain ...

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

There was a time when you had to choose between creating universal mobile apps and native apps. Universal apps used web technologies like HTML and JavaScript, which often performed badly in mobile ...

Facebook-owned React Native is a JavaScript framework used for building Android and iOS apps. It's used by 11% of dev Android and iPhone apps, with developers earning an average of $117,000 a year.