Microsoft has been talking to GitHub about possible acquisition: Report

1.  Easily acquire all your Android platform needs
2.  Jump start your Android development with  C++ cross-platform templates and samples
3.  One C++ IDE to target all mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows and more)
4.  Leverage powerful cross-platform coding tools 
5.  Share your cross-platform C++ code easily
6.  Fastest C++ builds with Incredibuild support 
7.  The fastest and most robust debugging experience for your Android application
8.  Leverage the best in Breed, free Android Emulator
9.  Gather your application insights easily using HockeyApp 
10.  Visual Studio is the cross-platform mobile solution (Xamarin, Apache Cordova) and just not limited to cross-platform C++ 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.6:

• Installation failures of the Unity Editor component in China.
• Starting a new nanoFramework project from a template.
• Deployment errors after VS2017 update.
• Android Deploy failed - Error ADB0010.
• Error in German translation: info bar "session closed unexpectedly".
• Visual Studio 2017 create offline layout problem: Failed to load from stream for non-ENU layouts.
• Extension auto-update can leave extension disabled. 

Without a doubt, maps are one of the most useful tools for users when included in an app. This tutorial is the first in a series going over Google Maps v2 for Android. It will cover setting up the Google Maps API through the Google Developer Console, including a map fragment in your applications, displaying the user's location, adding markers, drawing on the map, and some general methods that will add utility to your app.
Intermediate  & Advanced

Extract prominent colors from an image. Vibrant.js is a javascript port of the awesome Palette class in the Android support library.  Demo

Readings in Database Systems (commonly known as the "Red Book") has offered readers an opinionated take on both classic and cutting-edge research in the field of data management since 1988. Here, we present the Fifth Edition of the Red Book — the first in over ten years. 

Where does a developer's responsibility begin and end when it comes to managing the success of a product? This question has been nagging me for the better part of a year now, and I hope that expressing my thoughts will help cement my thoughts on that particular issue. I've been fortunate enough to work in many environments with varying levels of product responsibility. 

There is no question that the Polly library has had a big impact on the .NET community in providing useful resilience and transient fault handling policies in an accessible way to millions of projects. 

Take a dive into this history of blockchain technology, a decentralized and distributed ledger. Hear how blockchain has evolved to where it is today and imagine what the future might hold.