June 9th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Michael van Ouwerkerk, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamJoe optimized Picasa Web Albums for the iPhone and Zak made it shine on Windows Mobile. This made me wonder about Nokia phones. Ever since S60 3rd Edition came out, phones like the N…
June 6th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Zhengrong Ji and Ravi Jain, Google mobile teamAt Google we’re very excited about the promise of location technology to drive innovation in the mobile industry. We of course use this location technology already in Google Maps for mobile with t…
June 5th, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Joe Hughes, Software EngineerEver since Google Maps added public transportation directions for San Francisco, it’s been a lot easier for me to figure out which buses and trains will get me where I’m going around town, so that today’s gas pric…
May 23rd, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Maryam Kamvar, Software EngineerWe all know that typing on mobile phones can sometimes be a headache — especially if the phone in question has a small 9-key keypad. On those kinds of devices, we estimate that it takes an average of 40 second…
May 19th, 2008 | by Megha Joshi | published in Google Android
We are pleased to announce that a new open source sample application—called AndroidGlobalTime — has been added to the apps-for-android project.
It’s a 3D world clock developed by an engineer at Google and may serve as an illustrative example …
May 14th, 2008 | by David McLaughlin, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
It’s been a busy few weeks here as we’ve wrapped up the first round of the Android Developer Challenge. We’d like to share a couple pieces of information with you: The full list of judges is now available. It was fun to work with such a diverse group o…
May 13th, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Well, the submission deadline for the first Android Developer Challenge has come and gone, the apps are in, the judges are finished, and the waiting is over. We got a lot of great submissions, and I can tell you personally that the competition was fie…
May 13th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Lawrence Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Google mobile teamThe Android team has announced the selection of the top 50 applications of the Android Developer Challenge. Each of the top 50 apps will receive $25,000 and is eligible to receive …
May 13th, 2008 | by Jason Chen, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. We’re still working on pulling together a more extensive listing for each application that made it into the top …
May 9th, 2008 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
The last few weeks were both extremely intense and rewarding. Based on feedback from the judges, it was apparent that large number of applications were compelling, innovative and well implemented. The quality of these entries clearly reflects the crea…
May 7th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Chris Barton, Strategic Partner Development TeamToday we’re happy to announce that we’ll be working with Sprint to provide quick and easy access to Google search, Google Maps for mobile, YouTube, and other Google mobile services on Sprint’s n…
May 1st, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Ulf Waschbusch, Product Marketing Manager, Google mobile teamGoogle fürs iPhone jetzt auch in deutsch! Et en français .. en in het Nederlands and in many more languages. When we launched our new Google interface for the iPhone at Macworld i…
April 30th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Alexandra Kenin, Product Marketing Manager, mobile adsLast week we launched our new mobile image ads, which give mobile web publishers the flexibility to display image ads in addition to text ads on their sites. As of today, AdSense for mobi…
April 23rd, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Alexandra Kenin, Product Marketing Manager, Mobile AdsThe mobile ads team is happy to announce the launch of mobile image ads. These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to fit on mobile screens and they run…
April 18th, 2008 | by Azhar Hashem, Product Marketing Manager for Android, Google Developer Products Team | published in Google Android
I’m thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge!Here are a few facts that I thought were interesting. When we announced the Android Developer Challenge back in January, de…