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Friday, 18 December 2009

Hello, Stack Overflow!

Over the past year, an Android presence has been growing on a relatively new technical Q&A web site called Stack Overflow . The site was...
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Back and other hard keys: three stories

Android 2.0 introduces new behavior and support for handling hard keys such as BACK and MENU , including some special features to support t...
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Thursday, 17 December 2009

New resources and sample code on developer.android.com

Hey Android developers—if you've visited the online Android SDK documentation recently, you may have noticed a few changes. That's ...
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Knowing is half the battle

As a developer, I often wonder which Android platforms my applications should support,especially as the number of Android-powered devices gr...
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Friday, 11 December 2009

Come to Our Virtual Office Hours

Starting this week, we're going to be holding regular IRC office hours for Android app developers in the #android-dev channel on irc.fre...
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Thursday, 10 December 2009

Optimize your layouts

Writing user interface layouts for Android applications is easy, but it can sometimes be difficult to optimize them. Most often, heavy modif...
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Thursday, 3 December 2009

Android SDK Updates

Today we are releasing updates to multiple components of the Android SDK: Android 2.0.1, revision 1 Android 1.6, revision 2 SDK Tools, revis...
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Monday, 30 November 2009

Announcing the Winners of ADC 2

Back in May at Google I/O, we announced ADC 2 -- the second Android Developer Challenge -- to encourage the development of cool apps that d...
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009

ADC 2 Public Judging is now closed

Thanks to tens of thousands of Android users around the world who participated in the review of ADC 2 finalist applications, we have now col...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Integrating Application with Intents

Written in collaboration with Michael Burton, Mob.ly; Ivan Mitrovic, uLocate; and Josh Garnier, OpenTable. OpenTable, uLocate, and Mob.ly wo...
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Thursday, 5 November 2009

ADC 2 Round 2 Voting Open

The results from ADC 2 Round 1 are now tabulated and verified. With the top 200 applications identified, it's time to begin the final r...
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Monday, 2 November 2009

Bring Your Lab Coats

With the recent release of Android 2.0 and the growing number of available devices, we want to give developers a convenient way to test dri...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK!

I am excited to announce that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair). Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for syn...
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Friday, 23 October 2009

UI framework changes in Android 1.6

Android 1.6 introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes in the UI framework. Today, I'd like to highlight three two improvements in ...
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Thursday, 8 October 2009

Support for additional screen resolutions and densities in Android

You may have heard that one of the key changes introduced in Android 1.6 is support for new screen sizes. This is one of the things that h...
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Monday, 5 October 2009

Gestures on Android 1.6

Touch screens are a great way to interact with applications on mobile devices. With a touch screen, users can easily tap, drag, fling, or sl...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Now available: Android 1.6 NDK

Today Android 1.6 NDK, release 1 is available for download from the Android developer site. To recap, the NDK is a companion to the SDK tha...
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Monday, 28 September 2009

Zipalign: an easy optimization

The Android 1.6 SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Doing this enables Android to intera...
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Friday, 25 September 2009

A Note on Google Apps for Android

Lately we've been busy bees in Mountain View, as you can see from the recent release of Android 1.6 to the open-source tree, not to ment...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009

ADC 2 Judging Has Begun!

I am happy to announce that Android Developer Challenge 2 's first round of judging has begun! As a reminder, user voting determines whi...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009

An introduction to Text-To-Speech in Android

We've introduced a new feature in version 1.6 of the Android platform: Text-To-Speech (TTS). Also known as "speech synthesis",...
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