Posted by Tim Bray
The rollout of Google Play services to all Android 2.2+ devices worldwide is now complete, and all of those devices now have new tools for working with OAuth 2.0 tokens. This is an example of the kind of agility in rolling out new p…
[This post is by Trevor Johns from the Android team — Tim Bray]User reviews on Google Play are great for helping people discover quality apps and give feedback to developers and other potential app users. But what about when developers …
[This post is by Billy Rutledge, Director of Developer Relations for Android. — Tim Bray]Just in time for Google I/O next week, the Android Developers site is stepping into a new look that is streamlined, simplified, and refocused. A de…
[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…
[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 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 pos…
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…
[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…
Recently, there’s been a lot of news coverage of malware in the mobile space. Over on our Mobile blog, Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Android engineering, has posted Android and Security. We think most Android developers will find it interesting reading.
[This post is by Daniel Lehmann, Tech Lead on the Android Apps team. — Tim Bray][We’re trying something new; There’s a post over on Google+ where we’ll host a discussion of this article. Daniel Lehmann has agreed to drop by …