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Thursday, 30 April 2009

Widget Design Guidelines

Since the beginning of the year, the Android UI team has been hard at work on the Android 1.5 release. Starting today with widgets, we would...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Backward compatibility for Android applications

Android 1.5 introduced a number of new features that application developers can take advantage of, like virtual input devices and speech rec...
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Monday, 27 April 2009

Android 1.5 at Google I/O

I admit, I've been talking big about Google I/O in my last few posts. But I'm entirely serious: Google I/O is going to be the Andro...
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Android 1.5 is here!

I've got some good news today: the Android 1.5 SDK, release 1 is ready! Grab it from the download page . For an overview of the new Andr...
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Friday, 24 April 2009

Introducing GLSurfaceView

GLSurfaceView is a new API class in Android 1.5. GLSurfaceView makes OpenGL ES applications easier to write by: Providing the glue code to c...
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Live folders

Live folders have been introduced in Android 1.5 and let you display any source of data on the Home screen without forcing the user to launc...
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Thursday, 23 April 2009

Future-Proofing Your Apps

Hi, developers! I hope you've heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some gre...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Creating an Input Method

To create an input method (IME) for entering text into text fields and other Views, you need to extend the InputMethodService . class. T...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009

On-screen Input Methods

Starting from Android 1.5, the Android platform offers an Input Method Framework (IMF) that lets you create on-screen input methods such as ...
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Monday, 20 April 2009

Introducing home screen widgets and the AppWidget framework

One exciting new feature in the Android 1.5 SDK is the AppWidget framework which allows developers to write "widgets" that people ...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009

UI framework changes in Android 1.5

On Monday, we released an early look at the Android 1.5 SDK . Not only does this platform update contain numerous new features , APIs, and b...
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Monday, 13 April 2009

Getting ready for Android 1.5

I'm excited to announce that starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. T...
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