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Android Studio supports all the same programming languages of IntelliJ (and CLion) e.g. Java, C++, and more with extensions, such as Go; [19] and Android Studio 3.0 or later supports Kotlin, [20] and "Android Studio includes support for using a number of Java 11+ APIs without requiring a minimum API level for your app". [21]
As of 2015, Android Studio [8] is the official IDE; however, developers are free to use others, but Google made it clear that ADT was officially deprecated since the end of 2015 to focus on Android Studio as the official Android IDE. Additionally, developers may use any text editor to edit Java and XML files, then use command line tools (Java ...
When Kotlin was announced as an official Android development language at Google I/O in May 2017, it became the third language fully supported for Android, after Java and C++. [48] As of 2020 [update] , Kotlin is the most widely used language on Android, with Google estimating that 70% of the top 1,000 apps on the Play Store are written in Kotlin.
On July 15, 2008, the Android Developer Challenge Team accidentally sent an email to all entrants in the Android Developer Challenge announcing that a new release of the SDK was available in a "private" download area. The email was intended for winners of the first round of the Android Developer Challenge.
Jetpack Compose supports Android 5.0 and later. [6] It uses the Kotlin programming language, and provides a reactive programming model similar to other UI frameworks such as Vue.js and React Native. [2] Compose is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing Android apps and libraries, allowing developers to gradually migrate their apps to ...
By May 2010, Android had a 10% worldwide smartphone market share, overtaking Windows Mobile, [367] whilst in the US Android held a 28% share, overtaking iPhone OS. [368] By the fourth quarter of 2010, its worldwide share had grown to 33% of the market becoming the top-selling smartphone platform, [ 369 ] overtaking Symbian . [ 370 ]
Gradle builds on the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven, and introduces a Groovy- and Kotlin-based domain-specific language contrasted with the XML-based project configuration used by Maven. [3] Gradle uses a directed acyclic graph to determine the order in which tasks can be run, through providing dependency management.
APK is analogous to other software packages such as APPX in Microsoft Windows, APP for HarmonyOS or a Debian package in Debian-based operating systems.To make an APK file, a program for Android is first compiled using a tool such as Android Studio [3] or Visual Studio and then all of its parts are packaged into one container file.