An introduction to using Xamarin with C# for building cross-platform mobile apps. A fully featured and surprisingly pleasant alternative to Android Studio!

This post explains the Android app lifecycle — showing how an activity will progress through multiple stages as it is open, sent to the background, and then brought to the foreground again.

On Thursday, the company announced the availability of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) which will allow developers to build Android software components with C and C++.