Android

Android's Jack Compiler Says Hello to Java 8 with Android N

The Nexus 6P, pictured above, will be one of the first devices to run Android N, the recently-announced new version of Android that is available right now as a Developer preview for Nexus 6P users and ...
VentureBeat

Google: Jetpack Compose lets Android developers write apps with ‘dramatically less code’

Google today released the alpha version of Jetpack Compose, its UI toolkit for helping developers “build beautiful UI across all Android platforms, with native access to the platform APIs.” While an ...
InfoWorld

Jetpack Compose for Android turns GA

Google’s ‘modern’ declarative toolkit for building native Android user interfaces is now available in a 1.0 production release. Jetpack Compose, Google’s native UI toolkit for Android mobile ...
ZDNet

Kotlin language maker JetBrains: Windows 10 and M1 macOS get Android Jetpack Compose

Czechia-based developer tools company JetBrains is making progress with its open-source UI framework, Jetpack Compose for Desktop. JetBrains is the designer behind Kotlin, the Google-endorsed ...
InfoWorld

Google Jetpack Compose Android UI toolkit now in beta

Google’s Jetpack Compose toolkit for the Android mobile platform has moved to a beta stage of release. The declarative UI toolkit is designed to speed up the process of building native apps across ...