In this article, we discuss how to use a web API from within your Android app, to fetch data for your users. There are two major methods for retrieving data from most web services, XML or JSON.

Google's Play Integrity API is making it harder for users with rooted phones or custom ROMs to access certain apps. Here's ...

We’ve just seen a glimpse of this feature in Android 13 APIs. The stable version of the operating system will be released this year, likely past July. But this doesn’t mean we’ll get this ...

Google announced in a developer blog post last week that Credential Manager, a new Android-specific API for storing credentials like username and password combinations and passkeys, is going ...

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Summit Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of "Playing the Edge." Apply to speak here and learn more ...

Last month, we covered the strong possibility of Android Q providing new APIs for RCS messaging to third-party app developers, based on some evidence in Android code. It appears that Google’s ...

Read the related story: “Google’s unhappy Android developers.” ] Dropping the Bluetooth API means software developers won’t be able to create applications that utilize Bluetooth for the ...

Android has long offered an Activity Recognition API that processes device sensor data with machine learning models in a battery-efficient manner. Google is now offering an Android Sleep API to ...