Mobile developer William J. Francis demonstrates how easy it is to consume a RESTful service from your Android device. RESTful services are well suited for providing content to small footprint devices ...

Our editors hand-picked these products based on our tests and reviews. Read now A research paper published this week has analyzed the current usage of a lesser-known feature of the Android operating ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

In an effort to support development of applications for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft today released an API mapping tool for Android developers. The tool enables developers to look up Android API calls ...

At its I/O developer conference, Google just announced its new Play Games Services API, a new API that allows game developers to save game states and sync them between different machines. This service ...

The new Android version, as you may know, is designed with tablets in mind, however Android continues to be a mobile OS, and Android 3 will come to smartphones too. One of the new APIs introduced in ...

Google and Apple earlier this month announced a partnership to build contact tracing into iOS and Android. Ahead of the capability launching in mid-May, both companies are previewing the exposure ...

Google had launched the Android N developers preview a while ago and it did come with some interesting new features like the split screen multitasking. Google has now made the second release of the ...

Google has begun rolling out an update (we assume version 5.0, but we won’t know for sure until we have our hands on it) for its Android Wear platform and, as expected, the update focuses primarily on ...