Monday, 31 May 2010

On Android Compatibility

[This post is by Dan Morrill, Open Source & Compatibility Program Manager. — Tim Bray] At Google I/O 2010, we announced that there are o...
Thursday, 27 May 2010

Android Cloud To Device Messaging

[This post is by Wei Huang, who helped implement this feature. — Tim Bray] In the just-launched Android 2.2, we’ve added a new service to he...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Dalvik JIT

[This post is by Dan Bornstein, virtual-machine wrangler. — Tim Bray] As the tech lead for the Dalvik team within the Android project, I spe...
Friday, 21 May 2010

Android Application Error Reports

[This post, the first in a series about new features in Android 2.2 ("Froyo"), is by Jacek Surazski, a Googler from our Krakow off...
Thursday, 20 May 2010

Android 2.2 and developers goodies.

Today at Google I/O we announced that Android 2.2 is right around the corner. This is our seventh platform release since we launched Android...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010

The Google TV Story

Vincent Dureau, who’s in charge of Google TV , is a lean, bony-faced man with a strong French accent; not too far off my own age, I’d say. W...

Latitude API Launch

Over at the Google Code Blog, there's a pretty significant announcement, about the release of APIs for Latitude . the idea, as you might...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Stand By...

I'm posting this from Moscone West, the site of Google I/O 2010 . Some things that it may be useful to know: The official hash tag is #...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns

[This post is by Chris Nesladek, Interaction Designer, Richard Fulcher, Interaction Designer, and Virgil Dobjanschi, Software Engineer — Ti...
Thursday, 6 May 2010

Be Careful With Content Providers

The notion of a Content Provider is central to getting things done in an Android application. This is the mechanism used to expose many of...
Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Taking the Android Show on the Road

[This spring, the Android Developer Relations team (where I work, too) went on the road round the world with boxes of phones, their laptops ...