Developer Guides

Welcome to the Android developer guides. The documents listed in the left navigation teach you how to build Android apps using APIs in the Android framework and other libraries.

If you're brand new to Android and want to jump into code, start with the Build Your First App tutorial.

If you prefer to learn via video, check out the Developing Android Apps course on Udacity (trailer embedded here), and other video courses below.

Otherwise, the following is a small selection of essential developer guides that you should be familiar with.