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.

Sauce Labs has extended Appium to support automated testing for Android and Firefox OS applications. Support for iOS was introduced earlier this year.

The panelists discuss Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), each one presenting his company approach to this segment of the market.

JSON is the best alternative to XML for storing and exchanging text information. Android includes the json.org libraries which allow to work easily with JSON. In this tutorial you will learn about how to work with JSON in Android.

In this tutorial I'm going to develop a very simple app that will call a PHP script using HTTP. In previous tutorials you have learned about - Java Networking API and Apache HttpClient Library to make simple HTTP connections.

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.

On a recent talk I gave somebody asked me if I would use PhoneGap again. Not sure, was my answer. There are a lot of things to consider before using PhoneGap / Apache Cordova. A brief overview on my experiences.

This article contains details on the recently open sourced Buck and xctool, the build tools used internally by Facebook for their native Android and iOS applications.