Google has released App Inventor for Android, a new Java development environment aimed at the recently oft-targeted non-coder developer who wants to build an app for the Android operating system. It's ...

Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps. Android Studio made its debut Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

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