This article takes a (largely) unbiased look at the strengths and weaknesses of developing for Android vs iOS. Which is easier and most profitable?

Microsoft is heading for a single UI framework for everything from web apps to native desktop and mobile apps.

There are plenty of developers today using Xamarin to write apps for Android and iOS using C# and .NET. These apps should be easily portable to Windows 8 and Windows Phone—but often those ...

Developers also have to pay a fairly low one-time registration fee of $25. Going beyond smartphones. Developing Android apps means building software for an entire ecosystem of devices.

But while Android may have a larger overall population of users, iOS users are the ones who tend to pay for their apps. That's why app developers still to prioritize iPhone and iPad first: it's ...

Microsoft wants .NET developers to use its new experimental Blazor toolkit for building web apps to create native iOS and Android apps in C#.

If you're building applications for Android and iOS, cross-platform mobile development tools can make you more productive. Just don't expect the results to look pretty.

Today as expected, Microsoft announced that developers will be able to more easily bring their Android applications to Windows devices. The company said developers will be able to "reuse nearly ...

Even so, allowing apps to use more on-demand resources will certainly benefit console-level games coming to iOS and tvOS. Both iOS 18 and tvOS 18 are now available as beta previews for developers.

You might think app design is app design, whether the software is being developed for iOS or Android. But, in fact, creating highly polished, elegant-looking apps is simply easier to do when ...