Friday, 5 December 2008

New Resources for Developers

We're back in action after a Thanksgiving break filled with turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. Now it's the holiday season (at least...
Monday, 1 December 2008

Touch Mode

Designing and developing user interfaces for Android is very different from doing so in a regular desktop environment. Because Android runs ...

Behind the apps: Amazed

This week's developer video features Jason Tomlinson of Hands-On Mobile . He wrote Amazed, an application open sourced in the apps-for-...
Friday, 7 November 2008

Behind the apps: Amazon and imeem

Last week we introduced a couple Android developers who shared how they built their Android apps and gave their insight into Android app de...
Tuesday, 28 October 2008

The stories behind the apps

As we mentioned yesterday , the Android Market is now open for developers to upload their applications. I'm pretty excited because Mar...
Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Android Market: Now available for users

Last month I outlined some details around Android Market. Today, Android Market launched for users to download applications along with the ...
Tuesday, 21 October 2008

New Android Maps API Terms of Service and Key Enforcement

When we released the 0.9_r1 beta SDK, we mentioned that the Maps API included with Android would soon require an API key to function corre...

Android is now Open Source

Over the past year, we announced Android , released several SDKs (eventually resulting in the 1.0 SDK ), gave out the first half of the $10,...
Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Announcing the Android 1.0 SDK, release 1

About this time last year, my colleagues and I were preparing for the first of the "early look" SDK releases. I remember being a l...
Monday, 22 September 2008

Panoramio

The Panoramio web site has a great collection of photos from all over the world, and they also have a very convenient web API . I thought i...
Friday, 19 September 2008

Using WebViews

I've written a small application called WebViewDemo that shows how you can add web content to your application. You can find it in the ...
Monday, 15 September 2008

Divide and Conquer

Years ago I was addicted to a simple game that I played on my then state-of-the-art Pentium-75. In this game, balls would bounce around, an...
Thursday, 11 September 2008

Three new Samples: Triangle, SpriteText and Downloader

I've posted three new open source samples to the apps-for-android project: Triangle, SpriteText and Downloader. The first two samples, ...
Thursday, 4 September 2008

Android Photostream

I'm pleased to announce that a new open source sample application—called Photostream —has been added to the apps-for-android project. P...
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I

Since we started the first Android Developer Challenge late last year, we all have been eager to see who the winners of $275,000 and $100,00...

Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system

When we talk to developers, a common topic is the challenge of getting applications in the hands of users. That's why today I'm hap...
Monday, 25 August 2008

Some information on APIs removed in the Android 0.9 SDK beta

Earlier this week, we released a beta of the Android SDK. In the accompanying post, I mentioned that we had to remove some APIs from the pl...
Monday, 18 August 2008

Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK

I'm pretty happy today, for two reasons. First, I'm happy because I get to let everyone know that we're releasing a beta SDK. ...
Thursday, 19 June 2008

Android at Google I/O and Developer Days

It was great to connect with everyone at the Google I/O event in San Francisco and at our recent Developer Days across the globe. We enjoyed...
Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Android Developer Challenge Judges and Top 50 Details

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 cou...
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

A Challenge in More than One Way

Well, the submission deadline for the first Android Developer Challenge has come and gone, the apps are in, the judges are finished, and th...
Monday, 12 May 2008

The Top 50 Applications

As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. ...
Friday, 9 May 2008

Android Developer Challenge: Round I Results are In

The last few weeks were both extremely intense and rewarding. Based on feedback from the judges, it was apparent that large number of applic...
Thursday, 17 April 2008

Android Developers Have Risen to the Challenge

I'm thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge! Here a...
Monday, 7 April 2008

Android Developer Challenge Judges

We have received a few inquiries regarding the judges who will be evaluating entries to the Android Developer Challenge (ADC). All Entries ...
Friday, 4 April 2008

Android University

Spring is on the way, and temperatures are rising. We're no exception, and things are starting to heat up over here in Android-land, to...
Thursday, 3 April 2008

Android's First 5 Months

Originally by Sung Hu Kim, Product Marketing Manager for Android, Google mobile team As some of you may have heard, Wireless Week has cho...
Wednesday, 19 March 2008

WikiNotes for Android: Routing Intents

In the last article , we talked about using Linkify to turn wiki words (those that match a regular expression we defined) into a content: UR...