May 13th, 2008 | by Jason Chen, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. We’re still working on pulling together a more extensive listing for each application that made it into the top …
May 9th, 2008 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
The last few weeks were both extremely intense and rewarding. Based on feedback from the judges, it was apparent that large number of applications were compelling, innovative and well implemented. The quality of these entries clearly reflects the crea…
April 18th, 2008 | by Azhar Hashem, Product Marketing Manager for Android, Google Developer Products Team | published in Google Android
I’m thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge!Here are a few facts that I thought were interesting. When we announced the Android Developer Challenge back in January, de…
April 7th, 2008 | by David McLaughlin, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
We have received a few inquiries regarding the judges who will be evaluating entries to the Android Developer Challenge (ADC). All Entries will be judged by a panel of experts in the fields of mobile devices, cellular telecommunications, software deve…
April 4th, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Spring is on the way, and temperatures are rising. We’re no exception, and things are starting to heat up over here in Android-land, too.
The Android Developer Challenge deadline is approaching quickly. Wow, that’s strange to me. On one hand, we’ve…
April 3rd, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Originally by Sung Hu Kim, Product Marketing Manager for Android, Google mobile team
As some of you may have heard, Wireless Week has chosen the Open Handset Alliance and Android for its Emerging Technology Award, noting that “Android’s potential pr…
March 19th, 2008 | by Dick Wall, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
In the last article, we talked about using Linkify to turn wiki words (those that match a regular expression we defined) into a content: URI and defining a path to data that matched a note belonging to that wiki word. As an example, a matching word lik…
March 13th, 2008 | by Dick Wall, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
This is the first in a series of technical articles about WikiNotes for Android, part of the Apps for Android project.
This article covers the use of Linkify to turn ordinary text views into richer link-oriented content that causes Android intents to …
March 11th, 2008 | by David McLaughlin, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
The Android Developer Challenge is proceeding nicely. We’re excited about the interest people have shown so far and have enjoyed talking to everyone working on new Android Apps.As a quick reminder, the first phase of the challenge will be ending on Apr…
March 4th, 2008 | by Dick Wall, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
We are pleased to announce that a new open source project has been created on Google code hosting called apps-for-android. Our goal is to share some sample applications that demonstrate different aspects of the Android platform.
The first application …
March 3rd, 2008 | by Jason Chen, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
Earlier today we released an update to the Android SDK – we’re calling it m5-rc15. With this update, the SDK now includes all of the incremental changes we’ve been making to the online documentation since m5-rc14 was released in mid-February. In…
February 13th, 2008 | by Jason Chen | published in Google Android
On behalf of the entire Android team, I’m happy to let you know that an updated version of the Android SDK – we’re calling it m5-rc14 – is now available. Today, we’re continuing the early look at the Android SDK that we started back in Nove…
February 11th, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
As promised, there’s another Android event coming up – though a little closer to home this time. Our Android Advocates are heading to Boston for a Code Day that will be taking place on February 23. Registration is now open, but space is limited s…
January 28th, 2008 | by Quang Nguyen, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
We’d like to let you know that we are extending the submission deadline for the first Android Developers Challenge to 14 April 2008. Based on the great feedback you’ve given us, we’ve made significant updates to the SDK that we’ll be releasing in sever…
January 22nd, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
When I recently blogged about our upcoming Android Campfire, I hinted at some international events we’ve been working on. We’ve now finalized plans on those, and registration is open.
We’ve got Android Code Days lined up for these locations:
On…
