Google's new Android Studio makes creating native Android apps very easy. You can get started in a few minutes and by the end of this article have your first working Android application. This is the first part of an ebook on programming Android.

Riaktor uses the official Riak Java client to provide efficient asynchronous task execution and coordination using the Reactor framework. Riaktor uses Promises to easily coordinate dependent tasks. You can either block the calling thread to get the value of a promise (which makes it easy to do testing), you can set callbacks or Java 8 lambdas, or you can use the composition methods of Reactor's Composable abstraction and use the efficient map, filter, and reduce methods to interact with the returned values.

Simple getting started guide for creating REST services on Google App Engine for Java, using AppEngine Endpoints. The official Google App Engine maven plugin is used throughout.

Shephertz makes it ridiculously easy for developers to setup, use and operate a cloud backend for their mobile apps.Complete backend for app development will be managed by our App42.

Create upcoming events/task/to-do list and share it with your friends using App42 platform javascript/JQuery backend SDK in just few lines of coding.

The cat is out of the bag: yesterday, during Google I/O‘s keynote, we announced our new IntelliJ IDEA-based Android IDE, Android Studio. This is what my team has been working on for the past months.

Message Service is used for sending, pulling and removing message from a particular queue. Messages are sent to queue which can be pulled later by using multiple message receive options.

The popular IDEs for both the platforms, Eclipse and Xcode, is put under comparative analysis on various grounds to measure its potentials and weaknesses.

Overview of Google I/O from the Android perspective

You should not claim yourself as a mobile Internet service provider if your product doesn't have an App nowadays. The topic cannot get away from App when we talk on bus, restaurant. Recently it becomes a little bit quiet, but the app wind does not seem to stop, it seems every website may have an App. According to data released by Apple a couple of days ago, its application store app downloads already exceeded 50 billion. However some people are not happy with this.

DroidParts, a set of libraries for Android, has reached it's next milestone. Comes with new features & improved documentation.

Developing mobile UIs is a tricky business, especially with the market changing by the minute. ICEsoft chief software architect Ted Goddard explains how to get the most out of the medium, in this JAX Magazine article

World’s largest Ad Network InMobi for Ad monetization for your Apps. In line with ShepHertz vision to become a One-stop for App developer’s needs. Start making revenue right away .

Since I’m at Mobilism 2013 I think it’s worth sharing my recent mobile (mainly CSS) workflow. It’s not rocket science, but it’s a nice follow on from my workflow with devtools I shared a few months back.

For more than one scenario, the developer might want to have access to the pictures stored in the device photo hub. That can be done in two ways - either by using PhotoChooserTask which is the most common way to retrieve the image content, given that the user himself will select the single entity that needs to be read, or with the help of MediaLibrary - an XNA sub-layer that allows direct access to the media directory.

Presenting content of varied size can often be tricky. For example, displaying names of metro stations with fixed font size, and it always is a fixed font size, can result in a part of the text being clipped off. Or if you use text wrapping, a large block of text can extend way beyond your intended design.