November 16th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long blogJust over one year ago, we unveiled Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch. Google Earth quickly became one of the most popular applications in the App Store, and after only six months, was the second most-…
November 11th, 2009 | by Justin Mattson | published in Google Android
Written in collaboration with Michael Burton, Mob.ly; Ivan Mitrovic, uLocate; and Josh Garnier, OpenTable.OpenTable, uLocate, and Mob.ly worked together to create a great user experience on Android. We saw an opportunity to enable WHERE and GoodFood us…
November 10th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Since the launch of Google Latitude earlier this year, we’ve been getting a lot of feature requests. One of the most popular ideas was for Latitude to keep track of location history, allowing you (but not your friends) to see where you’ve been at any p…
November 10th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of new imagery in Street View. Now when you’re daydreaming about exotic vacations (or even planning them!), you can pull up Street View in Google Maps for mobile and explore new locations in Hawaii and Mexico….
November 6th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Hey New Yorkers — looking for somewhere to celebrate the Yankees’ 27th World Series title? It’s now easier than ever to carry a NYC subway map in your pocket.A few weeks ago we announced the Layers feature on Google Maps for BlackBerry, Windows Mobil…
November 6th, 2009 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
The results from ADC 2 Round 1 are now tabulated and verified. With the top 200 applications identified, it’s time to begin the final round judging. Be sure to download the ADC 2 judging application, or update your existing application, and help us sel…
November 5th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
If you’re a regular reader of the Google Mobile Blog, then you’ve probably installed or accessed our mobile applications on your phone at one point or another. You may have even shown our applications to your friends and explained how to get them. Or…
November 3rd, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Analytics, Google Mobile
Last week, we introduced expanded mobile reporting features in Google Analytics. To help developers, this launch includes features that make it easy to see how people are using specific parts of their iPhone and Android applications. The same Google An…
November 2nd, 2009 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
With the recent release of Android 2.0 and the growing number of available devices, we want to give developers a convenient way to test drive their apps on these new devices. We also want to make our Android advocates available to answer any questions…
October 27th, 2009 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
I am excited to announce that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair).Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs, you can write applica…
October 26th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
On April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application’s underlying code which allows us to more rapidly develop and release new feature…
October 23rd, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Android 1.6 introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes in the UI framework. Today, I’d like to highlight three two improvements in particular.Optimized drawingThe UI toolkit introduced in Android 1.6 is aware of which views are opaque and can use t…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Custom Search, Google Mobile
Google Custom Search makes it easy for web site owners to add Google-powered search boxes to their sites. Since a rapidly growing percentage of web search traffic originates from smartphones, we’re pleased to announce that Google Custom Search now for…
October 21st, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
We’re excited to announce that version 3.2 of Google Maps for mobile is now available for BlackBerry. This release contains many of the same features we recently launched on Windows Mobile and S60, including Layers.Layers make it easy to view various …
October 20th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Panoramio is a community of people who enjoy sharing photos of places with the rest of the world. These photos are surfaced in Google Earth and Google Maps as photo layers, where millions of users can see them. Panoramio has just launched an ap…