Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android.

That could happen thanks to BeeWare, an open-source project headed up Russell Keith-Magee, which is porting CPython to Android, so apps written in Python can run natively on Android.

While Java has long been Android's main programming language, it's never a good fit. Java was written when "mobile" computing devices were 7-pound laptops.

Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

Android GUI Programming. Android applications use a range of standard platform resources for designing and programming user interfaces. Android applications use classes in the Java language to ...

If you want to learn the Kotlin programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos and websites.

In this video on C/C++ programming on Android , Michael Jennings, a Google UK software engineer and Developer Advocate, describes Android as a Java-centric mobile operating system that is built on top ...

It is available as a fully-supported programming language within Android Studio 3.0. According to the Kotlin website, users include Pinterest, Evernote, Uber, and Atlassian.