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 designed specifically for programmers, with features like syntax highlighting, tagging, user reputation, and community editing. It's attracted a loyal software... اقرأ المزيد »

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 the virtual hard keys that are appearing on recent devices such as Droid.This article will give you three stories on these changes: from the most simple to the gory... اقرأ المزيد »

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 right, there's a new Resources tab, which... اقرأ المزيد »

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 grows. Should my application only... اقرأ المزيد »

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.freenode.net. Members of the Android team will be on hand to answer your technical questions. (Note that we will not be able to provide customer support for the phones... اقرأ المزيد »

Optimize your layouts

/* Stylesheet generated from TextMate theme * * Mac Classic * * *//* Mostly to improve view within the TextMate HTML viewer */body { margin: 0; padding: 0;}pre.textmate-source { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 2px; font-family: Monaco, monospace; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.3em; word-wrap: break-word;... اقرأ المزيد »

Android SDK Updates

Today we are releasing updates to multiple components of the Android SDK:Android 2.0.1, revision 1Android 1.6, revision 2SDK Tools, revision 4Android 2.0.1 is a minor update to Android 2.0. This update includes several bug fixes and behavior changes, such as application resource selection based on API... اقرأ المزيد »