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 ...

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 ...

In a major leap forward for cloud-based app development, Google has officially unveiled Firebase Studio, a unified, agentic environment that fuses prototyping, coding, testing, and deployment into a ...

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 ...

What if building a fully functional app, complete with secure logins, real-time data syncing, and even AI-driven features, could be done in mere seconds? It might sound like a pipe dream, but with the ...

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 ...