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Friday, 23 July 2010

Adjustment to Market Legals

Please note that we have updated the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA). This is in preparation for some work we’re doing...
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Monday, 19 July 2010

Multithreading For Performance

[This post is by Gilles Debunne, an engineer in the Android group who loves to get multitasked. — Tim Bray] A good practice in creating resp...
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Thursday, 15 July 2010

Market Statistics Adjustments

If you look closely today, you'll notice that some per-app Android Market statistics have lower values; not big differences, but noticea...
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Android Market Welcomes Korea!

As of today, Android Market is open for business to application buyers in the Republic of Korea. We hope that this will make the outstandin...
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Monday, 12 July 2010

How to have your (Cup)cake and eat it too

[This post is by Adam Powell, his second touchy-feely outing in just a few weeks. I asked him to send me a better picture than we ran last ...
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Thursday, 8 July 2010

Apps on SD Card: The Details

[This post is by Suchi Amalapurapu, an engineer who worked on this feature. — Tim Bray] Android 2.2 supports application installation on ext...
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Android 2.2 SDK refresh

As you may have noticed , the source code for Android 2.2, which we call Froyo, has been released. The Android 2.2 SDK that was released at ...
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Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Android Love at OSCON

Android developers who aren't already going should take a moment to check out the OSCON 2010 schedule, and give serious thought to a tr...
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature

[This post is by Rich Cannings, Android Security Lead. — Tim Bray] Every now and then, we remove applications from Android Market due to vio...
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Android Market Problem

Earlier today we had a brief outage in Android Market. For a period of about thirty minutes, some users were unable to find any apps. The pr...
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The Froyo Code Drop

[This post is by Jean-Baptiste Queru , who moves truck-loads of source code in and out of the Googleplex. — Tim Bray] Today is one of those ...
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Hands-on at OSCON

This year at OSCON we and O’Reilly are co-presenting Android Hands-on . The event is on the evening of Wednesday, July 21 after the Expo-h...
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Monday, 21 June 2010

Future-Proofing Your App

[This post is by Reto Meier AKA @retomeier , who wrote the book on Android App development. — Tim Bray] As a developer, I’m excited by And...
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Game Development for Android: A Quick Primer

[This post is by Chris Pruett , an outward-facing Androider who focuses on the world of games. — Tim Bray] If you attended Google I/O this ...
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Saturday, 12 June 2010

Download Count Problems

Something is apparently wrong in the Android Market. We are getting multiple reports of erroneous download counts. The right people are aw...
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Friday, 11 June 2010

Blogging Round the World

It seems that once or twice a week, I run across an Android-developer-oriented site that I hadn’t previously noticed. There are already a f...
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Making Sense of Multitouch

[This post is by Adam Powell, one of our more touchy-feely Android engineers. — Tim Bray] The word “multitouch” gets thrown around quite a b...
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