There's more than one way to make an Android game! In this post, I take a look at creating 2D sprite-based games with Java and Android Studio.

Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference. The ...

Java is a great language for game programming, as I hope my book demonstrates." "Killer Game Programming in Java" is a guide to everything you need to know to program bad-ass Java games.

Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

If you believe in open source this should be good news. App Inventor for Android opens the creation of apps, for the first time, to non-programmers. The apps you write can access the phone and the ...

Swift is not likely to replace Kotlin or Java on Android in the near future, but some developers may find it useful for cross-platform projects.

While it includes C and C++ APIs, most game development is done in C++, which provides a high-performance, close-to-the-metal alternative to stalwart Android programming languages Kotlin and Java.