December 16th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Bart Sears, who manages the Android Browser team. —Tim Bray]This posting describes some issues when browsing websites with mobile variants using large-form-factor Android devices. This posting will be of interest both to OEMs (with…
December 16th, 2010 | by Chris Nguyen | published in Google Mobile
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog and the Google Lat Long Blog)Update (12/17/2010 11:30am PST): Check out a related post on the technology powering Google Maps 5.0 for Android.I’m excited to announce Google Maps 5.0 for Android, with two si…
December 16th, 2010 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Last week we announced Nexus S, a pure Google phone. With a brilliant 4” Contour Display, a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, the latest Google mobile apps and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) pre-installed, we’re excited about getting this great device out the…
December 14th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Alexander Lucas, an Android Developer Advocate bent on saving the world 5 minutes. —Tim Bray]With the addition of custom variables to the Mobile Analytics SDK for Android, it strikes me as a good time to cover something many of you …
December 14th, 2010 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
When we launched Voice Search more than two years ago, we wanted it to “just work” right out of the box, without an initial setup process. And so, we built speech models broad enough to accommodate a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, a…
December 13th, 2010 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
There are many ways to get your Gmail on your phone. The mobile webapp version of Gmail (which you can get to by going to gmail.com in your browser) is the best way to get the most Gmail features on your iPhone or Android-powered device. Features such …
December 13th, 2010 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
My dad loves planning big family gatherings around the holidays. He always emails our extended family a few weeks early, and we’ll all plan out logistics in an email thread – food responsibilities, addresses, times– everything. Logistics can get pre…
December 13th, 2010 | by Chris Nguyen | published in Google Mobile
“Where are you?”Starting today, you’ll never again have to answer (or ask) that question when you’re on the go with your iPhone. With the new Google Latitude app for iPhone, you can see where your friends are and now, continuously share where …
December 13th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Brad Fitzpatrick, an Android Software Engineer who worries unreasonably about responsiveness. —Tim Bray]Back StoryOne great thing about Google is “20% time”: spending 20% of your time working on projects outside your main focus …
December 10th, 2010 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I’m pleased to announce a significant upda…
December 9th, 2010 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
(Cross-posted on the Gmail blog.)When we first released Gmail in Android Market back in September, we said that you’d be getting new stuff faster, and we meant it. After getting thousands of comments on that release, we made a bunch of updates based…
December 9th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
With the advent of Gingerbread, we’re going to be running a series of posts in this space about the aspects of Android 2.3 that developers should care about. One thing that developers should care about more than anything else is not losing data. Th…
December 9th, 2010 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
When we launched Google Instant for mobile in beta back in November, we announced that we would be supporting additional countries and languages, beyond just the U.S. in English. Today we’re happy to let you know that Google Instant for mobile is no…
December 8th, 2010 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile, Youtube
When you’re watching a video on YouTube, how often do you JUST watch the video? If you’re like me, you scroll down, maybe read the video description and glance over at the related videos to choose what you might watch next. Today the latest YouTube ap…
December 6th, 2010 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
The very first Android phone hit the market in November 2008. Just over two years later, Android’s vision of openness has spurred the development of more than 100 different Android devices. Today, more than 200,000 Android devices are activated daily…