Were back in action after a Thanksgiving break filled with turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. Now its the holiday season (at least, here in the U.S.) and were filled with good will toward developers. Today I wanted to talk about a couple things we just finished polishing up.First, the Android 1.0 SDK, release 2 is now available. Like the previous 1.0_r1 release, this new 1.0_r2 build creates applications...
Monday, June 30, 2014
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 launch an application. A live folder is simply a real-time view of a ContentProvider. As such, a live folder can be used to display all your contacts, your bookmarks, your email, your playlists, an RSS feed, etc. The...
Im happy to announce that well be hosting a very special Android Developer Lab at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the inaugural App Planet event.There will be technical presentations throughout the day and a developer lounge where you can talk to Android team members and meet others in the growing Android...
Sunday, June 29, 2014
The results from ADC 2 Round 1 are now tabulated and verified. With the top 200 applications identified, its time to begin the final round judging. Be sure to download the ADC 2 judging application, or update your existing application, and help us select the final winners!For the final round, both users and a Google-selected panel of industry judges...
[This post is by Dan Bornstein, virtual-machine wrangler. — Tim Bray]As the tech lead for the Dalvik team within the Android project, I spend my time working on the virtual machine (VM) and core class libraries that sit beneath the Android application framework. This layer is mostly invisible to end users, but done right, it helps make Android devices...
Im pleased to let you know about several updates to Android Market. First, we will soon introduce new features in Android Market for Android 1.6 that will improve the overall experience for users. As part of this change, developers will be able to provide screenshots, promotional icons and descriptions that will better show off applications and games.We have also added four new sub-categories for...
Saturday, June 28, 2014
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]Over the past year, we’ve seen very strong growth in the number of Android users around the world. To make it easier for those users to purchase their favorite apps and games on Android Market, we’re bringing Direct Carrier Billing to additional carrier networks in South Korea,...
We have received a few inquiries regarding the judges who will be evaluating entries to the Android Developer Challenge (ADC). All Entries will be judged by a panel of experts in the fields of mobile devices, cellular telecommunications, software development, and/or technology innovation ("Judges"). Google will select the Judges from the member organizations of the Open Handset Alliance, Google and/or...
[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 time, and got this in response. Photo by our own Romain Guy. — Tim Bray]Android developers concerned with targeting every last device with their apps are no doubt familiar with this chart:On July 1, 2010 this...
Friday, June 27, 2014
[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 Android’s potential as a single development platform that can make my apps available on a wide range of devices. From smartphones to televisions, Android is now being used on an increasingly diverse collection of hardware.Last...
Posted by Dave Burke, Engineering Director, Android Platform Today we are announcing Android 4.4 KitKat, a new version of Android that brings great new features for users and developers. The very first device to run Android 4.4 is the new Nexus 5, available today on Google Play, and coming soon to other retail outlets. We’ll also be rolling out the...
Hi, developers! I hope youve heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some great new features in there, but dont get too excited yet -- some of you will need to fix some problems in your apps before you can start taking advantage of Android 1.5.Weve done some fairly extensive testing of the popular apps on the Android Market, and it turns out...
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Google Play services 4.3 has now been rolled out to the world, and it contains a number of features you can use to improve your apps. Specifically, this version adds some new members to the Google Play services family: Google Analytics API, Tag Manager, and the Address API. We’ve also made some great enhancements to the existing APIs; everything to...
Android applications can easily be linked together using intents. One example of this involves Shazam, MySpace, and the Amazon MP3 Store. Once Shazam has identified a song, you can also search for the artists official MySpace profile page or buy the song via via the Amazon MP3 app. Here, the three developers behind these apps talk about how they accomplished this:To hear more about how the MySpace...
[This post is by Daniel Lehmann, Tech Lead on the Android Apps team. — Tim Bray][We’re trying something new; There’s a post over on Google+ where we’ll host a discussion of this article. Daniel Lehmann has agreed to drop by and participate. Come on over and join in!]With Android Ice Cream Sandwich, we set out to build software that...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
[This post is by Ian Ni-Lewis, a Developer Advocate who devotes most of his time to making Android games more awesome. — Tim Bray]Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, multi-purpose system like Android is trickier. Even the best developers frequently make mistakes in the...
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