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James Steele and Nelson To, authors of a new book on Android programming, know a thing or two about Google's mobile OS--including the bright side of fragmentation.

"Shifting away from Java, which we currently use for Android development, and over to Kotlin is not a trivial task," notes Omer Strulovich, a software engineer at Facebook.

Associated Faculty Yuanfang Cai: Formal software design modeling and analysis, software economics, software evolution and modularity Preetha Chatterjee: Software engineering, machine learning and ...

Over the next three years, many organizations will use AI agents to write the majority of their software, moving developers into review roles, Gartner predicts. But challenges and questions remain.

Programming languages: Python apps might soon be running on Android Python developers push for Python-built applications running on mobile devices, but big obstacles remain.

With version 0.9 of the software development kit, programmers get better compatibility with real Android phones due next quarter--but no Bluetooth interface.