January 18th, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
We expected a lot of attention when we launched the early look of the Android SDK, and that’s certainly what we got! Developers haven’t been shy in speaking their minds on our Discussion Groups, and we’ve been listening. We’ve also been hard at work …
January 14th, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
It’s been a busy few months. First we announced Android, then we released an early look of the Android SDK, and just last week we started accepting submissions for the Android Developer Challenge. Now that we’ve got things moving along, it’s time to s…
January 3rd, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
I think I have a really cool job, because I get to do a little bit of all those other cool jobs that you wish you could have. Today, I get to be like the Chairman from Iron Chef.
If you’ve never seen the show, the premise is that a slightly mysteriou…
December 19th, 2007 | by Dick Wall, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
This week finds me at the Google offices in jolly old London after a quick dash out to Belgium last week. I have had the chance to meet the Mobile developers based here in London and give them an introduction to Android, as well as do the same for 70is…
December 14th, 2007 | by Quang Nguyen, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
It’s been just over a month since we gave developers the first early peek at the Android SDK. We’ve been hard at work since then on some nifty new stuff we think you’ll really like. We hope to show that to you soon, but in the meantime, we wanted to fi…
December 5th, 2007 | by Dick Wall, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
Dianne Hackborn and Jason Parks are two of the architects on the Android engineering team, and in this podcast they talk to us about the Android platform from a technical perspective.
Dianne and Jason share a background at both Be and PalmSource, an…
November 29th, 2007 | by Dick Wall, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
The end of last week was Thanksgiving in the US, the tradition is to be with family, eat too much food and watch football (not necessarily in that order).
Apparently some folks took the chance to work on Android projects too. We are highlighting a f…
November 20th, 2007 | by Dick Wall, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
Background: While developing my first useful (though small) application for Android, which was a port of an existing utility I use when podcasting, I needed a way of updating a clock displayed on the UI at regular intervals, but in a lightweight and …
November 16th, 2007 | by David McLaughlin, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
Wow, what a week! The response from the community on Monday’s Android SDK release has been overwhelming. Our forums have been flooded and we’re glad to be helping people dig in writing new applications.
A handful of quick notes for this Friday evening…
November 13th, 2007 | by Quang Nguyen, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
OK, you’ve downloaded the SDK and are now ready to build the next killer app for mobile (and maybe win some $$$ in the process 
Activities? Intents? SimpleCursorAdapter? Huh? Hmm…how do I proceed?
Well, that depends on your style. Some will w…
November 12th, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google Android
Following last week’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance, today we’re happy to offer an early look at the Android SDK. We’re eager to get feedback from lots of developers in our discussion group. We’re also providing developer documentation and…