October 16th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
We wouldn’t be Google if we had a whole week of tips and tricks about all things mobile without giving a nod to the technical crowd. To conclude our week, we’re asking you to “Go Mobile!” by making the mobile web faster. Read our article for a collecti…
October 15th, 2009 | by Kai | published in Google Mobile
A few months ago, I started something crazy. Like a lot of Googlers, I work in Mountain View, CA but live in San Francisco, 37 miles away. When I moved to SF, I got hooked on the local cycling craze, and I fell in with a group that cycles to commute….
October 15th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
As we continue our week of all things mobile, we wanted to offer some tips and tricks to any marketers, advertisers, agencies, or businesses who want to use mobile as a platform to reach their customers. For ideas on how to work mobile into marketing c…
October 15th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
This week, as part of our celebration of all things mobile, we posed you this question – what do you want to know? And you told us! After two days, 519 people submitted 133 questions and cast 4,607 votes. We saw some common themes in your questions, so…
October 13th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
We’ve published some tips, tricks, and stories on various blogs about our mobile products, including Search, YouTube, Maps, and Gmail. We’ve also started tweeting – check out the YouTube and Google Maps Twitter accounts for tips about those mobile prod…
October 12th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
This week marks the anniversary of Star Trek’s original pilot episode “The Cage”, and with it, the first appearance of the iconic Communicator. As one of the inspirations for today’s mobile devices, the Communicator did more than just long-range voice …
October 9th, 2009 | by Linda | published in Google Mobile
I’m happy to announce Quick Search Box (QSB) for Android, a fast and versatile new system-wide search experience, available right from your phone’s home screen. Since keystrokes are at a premium when you’re typing on your phone, Quick Search Box provid…
October 8th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
You may have heard that one of the key changes introduced in Android 1.6 is support for new screen sizes. This is one of the things that has me very excited about Android 1.6 since it means Android will start becoming available on so many more devices…
October 7th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Finding the exact information you need sometimes requires filtering and refining your search results. Earlier in the year, we launched a collection of tools called Search Options which enable you to easily and quickly do this from a computer. Today i…
October 6th, 2009 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
The response to round one of the Android Developer Challenge 2 has been phenomenal! We originally expected that it would take two weeks to get all the necessary data to complete scoring. Over the last 10 days, more than 26,000 Android users reviewed …
October 5th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Touch screens are a great way to interact with applications on mobile devices. With a touch screen, users can easily tap, drag, fling, or slide to quickly perform actions in their favorite applications. But it’s not always that easy for developers. Wit…
September 30th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Sometimes I do a search on my desktop computer, only to find that I need to repeat the same search again later on my mobile phone. Today in the US we’re launching Personalized Suggest for Android, iPhone and Palm WebOS, which makes it really easy to r…
September 30th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
The mobile search team is always looking for new ways to make searching the world around you as easy and useful as searching the web. Today we’re introducing a redesigned local search experience on your phone that integrates with Google Maps on your co…
September 29th, 2009 | by David Turner | published in Google Android
Today Android 1.6 NDK, release 1 is available for download from the Android developer site.To recap, the NDK is a companion to the SDK that provides tools to generate and embed native ARM machine code within your application packages. This native code …
September 28th, 2009 | by Jean-Baptiste Queru, Android Open-Source Project | published in Google Android
The Android 1.6 SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Doing this enables Android to interact with your application more efficiently and thus has the potential to make your application and the overall sys…