April 7th, 2009 | by Kai | published in Google Mobile
Today, we’re thrilled to tell you about the improvements we’ve made to Gmail for mobile, running in the iPhone and Android web browser. First, you’ll notice that it’s a lot faster when performing actions like opening an email, navigating, or searching….
April 7th, 2009 | by Kai | published in Google Mobile
It’s probably no news to all you parents out there, but as a new dad I only recently found out just how busy life gets with kids. So I was thrilled when I was able to view my Google Calendar on my phone. Being able to check the week’s schedule is great…
April 1st, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Ever had a word on the tip of your tongue but just couldn’t remember it? Or perhaps blanked on a person’s name in a socially awkward situation? Or even suffered memory deterioration due to ordinary aging or questionable life choices? If so, Brain Sear…
March 30th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Last December, those of you who responded to our 100th mobile blog post said that you wanted more editorial content and mobile industry insight. Here are a couple of recent mobile-related articles that you might find interesting from Google executives…
March 30th, 2009 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
For no particular reason other than to celebrate this particular Monday, I wanted to update developers on two Android-related news items.If you’re a developer who will be in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of May, I hope you’ll join us at the 200…
March 30th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Sharing and reusing layouts is very easy with Android thanks to the
March 25th, 2009 | by Posted by Craig Wilkinson, Google Mobile App engineer | published in Google Mobile
Remember the last time you tried to search for “Marks & Spencers London SW1W” on your Blackberry and ended up with 10 extra characters in the spelling of “Spencers” before you gave up on the “London” bit? If you’re like us and hate typing on that t…
March 20th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
We’ve been working hard to support more devices and to offer better speed, quality, and robustness in the YouTube app. So we’re excited to announce a new version of our mobile YouTube application that’s optimized for most Window Mobile and Symbian Seri…
March 12th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
We’ve got good news for GrandCentral users — now you can begin previewing Google Voice, an application that helps you centralize all your telephony needs. Some features of Google Voice include voicemail transcription, the ability to search and store …
March 11th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Today we launched a new Image Search results page for Android, iPhone, and iPod touch in the US, the UK, and Japan.With the new Image Search results, you can easily scan up to 20 images on a single results page and get the details for images that inter…
March 9th, 2009 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Back in December, the Android Dev Phone 1 (ADP1) went on sale, giving developers access to unlocked hardware for their work. A few weeks ago, consumers with retail devices received an over the air update with the 1.1 release of Android. I know that man…
March 5th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Some Android applications require to squeeze every bit of performance out of the UI toolkit and there are many ways to do so. In this article, you will discover how to speed up the drawing and the perceived startup time of your activities. Both these t…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Finance, Google Mobile
Just over a year ago, during a user experience research trip for Google Finance, we were at the home of a stay-at-home mom / day trader. She was frustrated that there were “personal blackout periods” in the trading day when she was entirely disconnecte…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
In the previous installment of Android Layout Tricks, I showed you how to use the
February 26th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Android comes with a wide variety of widgets, small visual construction blocks you can glue together to present the users with complex and useful interfaces. However applications often need higher level visual components. A component can be seen as a c…