February 3rd, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Dianne Hackborn, a Software Engineer who sits very near the exact center of everything Android. — Tim Bray]An important goal for Android 3.0 is to make it easier for developers to write applications that can scale …
February 2nd, 2011 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
Following on last week’s announcement of the Android 3.0 Preview SDK, I’d like to share some more good news with you about three important new features on Android Market.And…
February 2nd, 2011 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
Following on last week’s announcement of the Android 3.0 Preview SDK, I’d like to share some more good news with you about three important new features on Android Market.And…
February 2nd, 2011 | by dly | published in Google Mobile
Over the past two years, developers around the world have helped make Android Market the go-to place for more than 100,000 apps, games and widgets. Previously, you could only access Android Market directly from your device, but today, we are introducin…
January 26th, 2011 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) is a new version of the Android platform that is designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. It introduces a new “holographic” UI theme and an interaction model that builds on the …
January 24th, 2011 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
We’d been wanting to build a fun, useful, app-like way to display weather information on our search results pages in the mobile browser. So we pulled together a user experience designer and team of engineers and built a new weather search results sni…
January 20th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Bruno Albuquerque, an engineer who works in Google’s office in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. —Tim Bray]One of the things that I find most interesting and powerful about Android is the concept of broadcasts and their use through the Broa…
January 13th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[The first part of this post is by Reto Meier. —Tim Bray]From c-base in Berlin to the Ice Bar in Stockholm, from four courses of pasta in Florence to beer and pretzels in Munich, and from balalikas in Moscow to metal cage mind puzzles in Prague – on…
January 12th, 2011 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile, Google Translate
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and Translate Blog.)When we launched the first version of Google Translate for Android in January 2010, we were excited about the year ahead. For the first time, we were bringing the capabilities supported on G…
January 11th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Chris Pruett, an outward-facing Androider who focuses on the world of games. —Tim Bray]We released the first version of the Native Development Kit, a development toolchain for building shared libraries in C or C++ that can be used i…
January 5th, 2011 | by Chris Nguyen | published in Google Mobile
The past few weeks have been exciting ones for the Android team: we recently released Nexus S and Android 2.3, Gingerbread, and we’ve even had some of our most popular team members take a trip to space. But we haven’t stopped buzzing with excitemen…
December 22nd, 2010 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
A key to a great purchasing experience is providing users with simple and fast payment methods. The Android Market team has been working hard to deliver more forms of payment t…
December 22nd, 2010 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Here at Google, we’re all about exploration. It’s no surprise that some of our favorite products are built to let you explore the world in ways never before possible. Google Maps lets you find your way all around the world. Google Earth lets you ex…
December 20th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Nick Kralevich, an engineer on the Android Security Team. — Tim Bray]“Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!” proclaims Engadget. “This is only possible because Android’s security is crap and it’s exploited easily…
December 17th, 2010 | by Chris Nguyen | published in Google Mobile
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Yesterday we introduced Google Maps 5.0 for Android with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. In order to create these features, we rebuilt Maps using vector graphics to dynam…