[This post is by Dianne Hackborn, whose fingerprints can be found all over the Android Application Framework — Tim Bray]Sometimes a developer will make a change to an application that has surprising results when installed as an upd…
[This post is by Chet Haase, an Android engineer who specializes in graphics and animation, and who occasionally posts videos and articles on these topics on his CodeDependent blog at graphics-geek.blogspot.com. — Tim Bray]In an e…
This weekend is Maker Faire, and Google is all over it.Following up on yesterday’s ADK post, we should take this opportunity to note that the Faire has chased a lot of ADK-related activity out of the woodwork. The level of traction is pretty surpris…
[This post is by Justin Mattson, an Android Developer Advocate, and Erik Gilling, an engineer on the Android systems team. — Tim Bray]Android’s USB port has in the past been curiously inaccessible to programmers. Last week at G…
[This post is by Jim Cotugno and Nick Mihailovski, engineers who work on Google Analytics — Tim Bray]Today we released a new version of the Google Analytics Android SDK which includes support for tracking e-commerce transactions. …
[This post is by Nick Butcher, an Android engineer who notices small imperfections, and they annoy him. — Tim Bray]Since the introduction of the Action Bar design pattern, many applications have adopted it as a way to provide easy …
[This post is by Bridgette Sexton, an innovation advocate for the African tech community. — Tim Bray]En Français.In the past year alone, we have met with over 10,000 developers and techies across Sub Saharan Africa. We are contin…
[This post is by Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering —Tim Bray]Recently, there’s been a lot of misinformation in the press about Android and Google’s role in supporting the ecosystem. I’m writing in the spirit of transparency and in an attem…
When Google I/O sold out so fast, were kicking around ideas for how to get some of our ticket reserve into the hands of our favorite people: Dedicated developers. Someone floated the idea of a contest, so we had to pull one together double-quick. You…
[The contents of this post grew out of an internal discussion featuring many of the usual suspects who’ve been authors in this space. — Tim Bray]In the Android group, from time to time we hear complaints from developers about…
[This post is by Patrick Dubroy, an Android engineer who writes about programming, usability, and interaction on his personal blog. — Tim Bray]The Dalvik runtime may be garbage-collected, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore memory…
[This post is by Dianne Hackborn, a Software Engineer who sits very near the exact center of everything Android. — Tim Bray]An important goal for Android 3.0 is to make it easier for developers to write applications that can scale …
[This post is by Bruno Albuquerque, an engineer who works in Google’s office in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. —Tim Bray]One of the things that I find most interesting and powerful about Android is the concept of broadcasts and their use through the Broa…
[The first part of this post is by Reto Meier. —Tim Bray]From c-base in Berlin to the Ice Bar in Stockholm, from four courses of pasta in Florence to beer and pretzels in Munich, and from balalikas in Moscow to metal cage mind puzzles in Prague – on…
[This post is by Chris Pruett, an outward-facing Androider who focuses on the world of games. —Tim Bray]We released the first version of the Native Development Kit, a development toolchain for building shared libraries in C or C++ that can be used i…