Android Q Beta 2 is the first release to include this new MicrophoneDirection API, which allows for developers to specify audio capture from two directions (front or back), plus explicit external ...

Learn how to use a web API from within an Android app using Retrofit. Get posts from social media, store data on the cloud, and much more!

Droid-Life points out that during Google I/O, Google and Qualcomm have announced updatable neural network API drivers, representing a new model that will roll out along with Android 12.

Will Amazon Kindle follow suit? They have two main Android apps. One is for the Amazon Fire tablets, which does not use the Google Play Framework, instead use the Amazon API.

This means that in Android P and going forward, APIs that are unofficially supported in Android's SDK will (generally) not be available to developers to use in their apps.

Password management and Autofill APIs are making their way to Android O, allowing users to switch between active password managers just as they would a keyboard.

Google also opened up APIs for geofencing, or putting a ring around a specific location that can provide data such as when a person enters or exits that circle.

Google has introduced a new Text API for its Mobile Vision framework that allows Android developers to integrate optical-character recognition (OCR) into their apps. The new Text API appears in ...

A new update heading to Android later this year means that apps that are over two years old will need to update their API target in order to stay accessible on newer devices. Currently, Android ...