Updated on October 14, 2022 in Learn
Installing Android Studio on Mac
Installation Android Studio is available at: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Updated on May 11, 2026 in Learn
Installing Android Studio on Windows
Installation Android Studio is available at: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. If you’re building database-driven Android apps and want to accelerate development without extensive coding, Adalo is a no-code app builder that lets you design, build, and publish custom apps to the Google Play Store…
Updated on May 11, 2026 in Learn
Android vs. iOS Development: What to Focus on This Year?
Many coding students are understandably interested in learning mobile app development. But the mobile device market is split between Android and iOS, so how do you know which platform to focus on building apps for? In this post, you’ll discover…
Updated on May 11, 2026 in Career Advice
Android Developer vs. Web Developer: Key Differences
While Android development and web development are both great career choices, there are still some things to consider when starting your own coding career journey. Many developers find that one area of software development better fits their interests, passions, and…
Updated on May 11, 2026 in Learn
What is Android Development?
With more than 3 billion active users, Android has been the best-selling operating system since 2011. It owns about 72% of the mobile operating system (OS) market. Source: Global Stats – StatCounter Android development has continued to dominate the mobile…
Updated on September 23, 2022 in Learn
SharedPreferences in Android with Kotlin
Kotlin is all about letting us do more work with less code, and SharedPreferences are no exception. In this post we’re going to focus on making SharedPreferences as easy to use as possible, and by the end we’ll be able…
Updated on June 11, 2019 in Learn
Prepare for Google’s Associate Android Developer Certification Exam with Treehouse
I applied to teach at Treehouse five years ago with a singular goal in mind: create high-quality training material to help people learn how to make Android apps. App development was still relatively new in early 2012, and I saw…
Updated on November 16, 2022 in Learn
All About Android AsyncTasks
Let’s say you need to download a few images when you click a button. What would be the best way to do it? Well, since you wouldn’t want to interrupt the main/UI thread (and run the risk of showing your…
Updated on May 25, 2017 in Learn
Scheduling Time-Sensitive Tasks in Android with the AlarmManager
In Android, the AlarmManager lets us schedule work to happen at a specific time. If your app has work to do and you’d like it to do that work even when the app isn’t running, then the AlarmManager might be…
Updated on June 14, 2016 in Treehouse News
New Course Roundup: Android
Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of June 6, 2016. Start learning to code today with a free trial on Treehouse! COURSES Testing in…
Updated on June 7, 2023 in Learn
How to Add a Navigation Drawer in Android
Android now includes a component that makes it very easy to add a navigation drawer to an app that the user can slide in from the side. I first remember seeing this in the Facebook app in iOS, and I…
Updated on June 7, 2023 in Learn
The Beginner’s Guide to Location in Android
Knowing a user’s location in an Android app can be extremely useful. Users take their devices everywhere and are constantly using them on the go, and as developers we can capitalize on that by providing a more contextual experience based…