February 24th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
The Android UI toolkit offers several layout managers that are rather easy to use and, most of the time, you only need the basic features of these layout managers to implement a user interface. Sticking to the basic features is unfortunately not the mo…
February 20th, 2009 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
Last Friday, we enabled developers to upload priced apps and saw a flurry of activity in the days that followed. Today, it is my pleasure to let you know that we have begun the phased rollout of priced applications to T-Mobile G1 users in the US. Onc…
February 19th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Android is a mobile operating system meant to be run on a wide array of devices, with very different hardware configurations. Some devices, like the T-Mobile G1, can change their hardware configuration at runtime. For instance, when you open the keyboa…
February 18th, 2009 | by Posted by Craig Wilkinson, Google Mobile App engineer | published in Google Mobile
One of the most common questions we are asked on this blog is “When will this be available for my phone?”. Well for all you Windows Mobile fans the answer is “now” for the Google Mobile App. Try it out by downloading it from http://m.google.com/search …
February 18th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
If you own a BlackBerry Storm on Verizon Wireless, we encourage you to download a brand new version of Google Maps for mobile that utilizes the Storm’s internal GPS. The Storm is the first Verizon BlackBerry that makes it possible for My Location to a…
February 13th, 2009 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
I’m pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers. Developers from these countries can go to the publisher website at http://market.android.com/publish to upload their application(s) along with …
February 13th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
Until today, you’ve only been able to view Google Docs spreadsheets on your mobile devices. Last night, we launched new capabilities to Google Docs for your phone that allow you to add new rows, edit existing cells, sort by columns, and filter by terms…
February 12th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Despite the impressive hardware of the first Android phones (T-Mobile G1 and ADP1) writing efficient mobile applications is not always straightforward. Android applications rely on automatic memory management handled by Dalvik’s garbage collector which…
February 12th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Just a week ago we announced Google Latitude, a new feature of Google Maps for mobile that lets you see your friends’ locations. Today Dylan Casey, a former professional cyclist, announced another location-based service from Google. My Tracks is a new…
February 11th, 2009 | by Jason Chen | published in Google Android
Android applications can easily be linked together using intents. One example of this involves Shazam, MySpace, and the Amazon MP3 Store. Once Shazam has identified a song, you can also search for the artist’s official MySpace profile page or buy the …
February 10th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
In September 2007, we launched Adsense for mobile content so that publishers could join our mobile content network and monetize their sites with Google text ads.Today, we’re happy to announce a new AdSense product for both mobile network operators and …
February 9th, 2009 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Hello, developers! As you may have heard by now, users around the world have started to receive updates to their Android devices that provide new features and functionality. You may also have noticed that the new update reports as “Android 1.1″. Appl…
February 9th, 2009 | by Kai | published in Google Mobile
One of the hardest parts about switching phones is getting your address book and calendar to your new device. We’re making that process a little easier by releasing a beta version of Google Sync for the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones as well as a con…
February 6th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on iPhone and Android devices. Just go to books.google.com/m in your mobile browser. You can search for a title, author, or subject….
February 4th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Way back in November 2007, we location-enabled all of our Google Maps for mobile clients to bring location awareness to the masses and improve the local search experience. Using My Location, millions of you have been able to easily find yourselves on a…