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[This post is by David Chandler, Android Developer Advocate — Tim Bray]Honeycomb introduced Fragments to support reusing portions of UI and logic across multiple activities in an app. In parallel, the showDialog / dismissDialog methods …

[This post is by Francesco Nerieri, engineering team lead for C2DM — Tim Bray]In the upcoming weeks, some of the older Client Login authentication keys will expire. If you generated the token you’re currently using to authenticate wit…

Over the past year we’ve been working to expand the list of countries and currencies from which Android developers can sell their products. Starting today, developers in Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, and Mexico can sell priced applications and in-a…

[This post is by Joe Fernandez, a technical writer for developer.android.com who cares about accessibility and usability. — Tim Bray.]We recently published some new resources to help developers make their Android applications more acc…

[This post is by Xavier Ducrohet and Reto Meier of the Android engineering team. — Tim Bray.]The Android emulator is a key tool for Android developers in building and testing their apps. As the power and diversity of Android devices has grown quickly…

[This post is by Nadav Aharony, a product manager on the Android team — Tim Bray]We’re rolling out new developer features for the Gmail Android app: It now includes a public ContentProvider that you can use to retrieve label data. Yo…

[This post is by Ellie Powers, a product manager on the Google Play team. — Tim Bray]As your apps have gotten more successful, more people have joined your team. Today, we’re making it easier to work together on analyzing and managing your publis…

[This post is by Debashish Chatterjee, Krishna Atkuru, and Ellie Powers of the Google Play Publisher Site team. —Dirk Dougherty]

For app publishers, complete and timely sales reporting is incredibly useful for managing a business on Google Play. To…

Today we are releasing an update to the SDK Tools and the Eclipse plugin. Revision 17 brings a lot of new features and bug fixes in various areas such as Lint, the build system as well as the emulator.Lint is a static checker which analyzes Android pro…

[This post is a group effort by Tony Chan, Fred Chung, Brian Carlstrom, and Kenny Root. — Tim Bray]Android 4.0 (ICS) comes with a number of enhancements that make it easier for people to bring their personal Android devices to work. In this post…

[This post is by Kenneth Lui, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
For more than a year we’ve been focused on expanding the reach, content, and monetization opportunities of Android Market. We started by extending the store to users on th…

Android applications have historically been limited to a maximum size of 50MB. This works for most apps, and smaller is usually better — every megabyte you add makes it harder for your users to download and get started. However, some types of apps,…

[This post is by Android designer Alex Faaborg, on behalf of the entire User Experience team. —Tim Bray]When we initially released Android Design, by far the number one request we received was for us to release stencils as well. The fine folks on t…

If you’ve published an app on Android Market, you’ve probably used Application Statistics to help tune your development and marketing efforts. Application Statistics is a set of dashboards in the Developer Console that shows your app’s installatio…

[This post is by Alexander Lucas, an Android Developer Advocate bent on saving the world 5 minutes. —Tim Bray][Please join the discussion on Google+.]Intents are awesome. They are my favorite feature of Android development. They make all sorts of s…