December 14th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Dan Galpin, who lives the Android Games lifestyle every day. — Tim Bray]Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, multi-purpose system like Android is trick…
December 12th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android, Uncategorized
[This post is by Luca Zanolin, an Android engineer who works on voice typing. — Tim Bray]A new feature available in Android 4.0 is voice typing: the difference for users is that the recognition results appear in the text box while …
December 8th, 2011 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
On Tuesday, we announced that Android Market passed 10 Billion app downloads. We wanted to look a little deeper at that huge number. First question: which app was lucky numb…
December 6th, 2011 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing. This past weekend, than…
November 28th, 2011 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
In the 24 months since the first Android device became available locally, Korea has quickly become one of the top countries in Android device activations. In parallel, we’ve…
November 22nd, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Ian Ni-Lewis, a Developer Advocate who devotes most of his time to making Android games more awesome. — Tim Bray]Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, …
November 11th, 2011 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
Today we are releasing an updated version of the Android NDK, now in revision 7. The updated NDK lets developers who are using native code get started with the new native APIs available in Android 4.0.Android NDK r7 includes a number of build system im…
November 10th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Philip Milne, who is part of the Android framework team. — Tim Bray]Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) sports two new widgets that have been designed to support the richer user interfaces made possible by larger displays: Sp…
November 8th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
A couple of months ago, we kicked off a series of Android Developer Labs in Asia, North America and Europe. To wrap up the 2011 series, we now have opened registration for 2 more locations in Asia.Taipei — December 2, 2011Hong Kong — December 6, 2…
November 3rd, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Elliott Hughes, a Software Engineer on the Dalvik team. — Tim Bray]If you don’t write native code that uses JNI, you can stop reading now. If you do write native code that uses JNI, you really need to read this.W…
November 1st, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Romain Guy and Chet Haase, Android engineers who have been known to collaborate on the subject of graphics, UIs, and animation. You can read more from them on their blogs at curious-creature.org and graphics-geek.blogspot.com. &md…
October 26th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Dounia Berrada, an engineer on the EngTools team. — Tim Bray]Selenium WebDriver is a browser automation tool which provides a lightweight and elegant way for testing web apps. Selenium WebDriver is now available as…
October 25th, 2011 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
Last week, we released the SDK for Android 4.0 and a new set of developer tools, now in revision 14. The updated tools include a lot of build changes, many that improve build performance. Also included is an under-the-hood change in how libraries are u…
October 20th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
Since Android is open-source, anyone can look at the code and see how it works inside. If you do this, you’ll notice that most but not all of the APIs are publicly documented.If they’re publicly documented, they’re part of what we consider the A…
October 18th, 2011 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
Today we are announcing Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich — a new version of the platform that brings a refined, unified user experience for phones, tablets, and more.Android 4.0 builds on the things people love most about Android — efficient…