January 22nd, 2010 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
2009 has been a great year for Android Market. With the support of developers like you, Android Market now has more than 20,000 applications. Of these applications, games have proven to be particularly popular with Android users. Seven of the ten most …
January 20th, 2010 | by Megha Joshi | published in Google Android
You may recall that we announced IRC Office Hours for Android app developers back in December. We just want to provide a quick update that upcoming office hours will be held on Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. PST, instead of twice weekly. These will be…
January 14th, 2010 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Typing a query into the search box on a phone can often be slow and difficult. For this reason, relevant search suggestions that match your intended query can meaningfully reduce the time and effort it takes to submit a search. Today in the US, we ar…
January 14th, 2010 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
If you have a BlackBerry and use the built-in Messages and Contacts apps, you can now search the email and contacts on your device using the new version of Google Mobile App.Just type (or speak) your query – perhaps the name of the person who sent you …
January 11th, 2010 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
Today, we are releasing the SDK component for Android 2.1, so that developers can take advantage of the new features introduced in Android 2.1. Please read the Android 2.1 release notes for more details. You can download the Android 2.1 component throu…
January 7th, 2010 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
Last month, Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated at the Computer History Museum the ability to search by using your location as the query. Starting today, you can try this yourself by going to Google.com in your iPhone or Android browser and …
January 5th, 2010 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
We’re very excited about today’s launch of Nexus One, the newest Android-powered phone running the latest Android 2.1 software. Nexus One comes with all your favorite Google Mobile apps pre-installed: find the classics like Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube…
December 23rd, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Like most kids, all I wanted to do on Christmas Eve was stay up and wait for Santa to arrive. One year, I went downstairs in the middle of the night and sat down in front of the Christmas tree to wait for Santa. Unfortunately, I soon fell asleep. When …
December 18th, 2009 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Android
Over the past year, an Android presence has been growing on a relatively new technical Q&A web site called Stack Overflow. The site was designed specifically for programmers, with features like syntax highlighting, tagging, user reputation, and com…
December 18th, 2009 | by Dianne Hackborn | published in Google Android
Android 2.0 introduces new behavior and support for handling hard keys such as BACK and MENU, including some special features to support the virtual hard keys that are appearing on recent devices such as Droid.This article will give you three stories o…
December 17th, 2009 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Android
Hey Android developers—if you’ve visited the online Android SDK documentation recently, you may have noticed a few changes. That’s right, there’s a new Resources tab, which was designed to take some of the load off the Developer’s Guide. We’ve mo…
December 17th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
Every mobile engineering team — including Google’s — struggles to make its applications available to all users on all devices. Even if you scope your work to today’s smartphones, you’re left with no less than five major operating systems. But we pay …
December 17th, 2009 | by Raphaël Moll | published in Google Android
As a developer, I often wonder which Android platforms my applications should support,especially as the number of Android-powered devices grows. Should my application only focus on the latest version of the platform or should it support older ones as w…
December 12th, 2009 | by Carolyn Penner | published in Google Mobile
At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from “eating your own dogfood”). Well thi…
December 11th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Holiday season is in full swing (again). And we want to help you take advantage of everything your mobile device can offer to help deck the halls or hit the malls. If you’re like us, you’ll probably use your phone to research products and check out rev…