Android development starts with the Android SDK - a collection of tools needed to build any kind of Android app. Discover what's included and how to use it.

For visual learners, here's yet another one - a massive series of hands-on video tutorials amounting to almost 20 hours of footage.

The accelerometer is a hardware sensor used to detect a shake motion. William Francis shares the accelerometer code that he uses in his Android apps.

Google plans to move all development of Android OS behind closed doors so that the process will no longer be visible to the public. This change is a big shift for Android, which has long allowed ...