What is "android"

About

Android is an operating system for mobile devices developed by Google and by Open Handset Alliance.

Tag use

When asking about a "force close" /"Unfortunately app has stopped" issue in your application, always include Logcat exception stack tracking in the question.

When tagging additional tags for questions, please use specific Android tags, such as android-Intent and android-Activity, nay Intent and Activity.

Questions about use or problems that do not involve development for Android are not allowed.

Developing

• Start here: Android Developers contains the download of SDK, documentation, class reference and turorial.

App Store

• Google Play

Development Tools

• Android Studio
• Eclipse
• Intellij
• Netbeans
• Xamarin

Tutorials & Examples

• Android Developers Training
• Androidhive
• Vogella

Books

• Google Android 5th Edition
• Dominating Android - From Basic to Advanced 2nd Edition

Auxiliary tools

• Android Jetpack
• Android Jetpack Compose
• Kotlin