Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements.

After a long legal battle, Google is moving to a completely open implementation of Java in Android N.

Non-game Android apps are normally written in Java, but a group inside Google is experimenting with a whole new way of writing Android apps using Dart, Google's in-house Web development language.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.