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 over 60 Android models now, selling... اقرأ المزيد »

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 help developers send data from servers... اقرأ المزيد »

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 spend my time working on the virtual... اقرأ المزيد »

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 office. — Tim Bray]The upcoming release... اقرأ المزيد »

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 1.0 in September 2008. We wanted... اقرأ المزيد »

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. With the announcement imminent,... اقرأ المزيد »

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 expect, is that the best way to get good location-based applications is to put the tools for building them into everyone's hands.A glance at the online documentation... اقرأ المزيد »

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 #io2010The keynotes will be live-blogged... اقرأ المزيد »

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 — Tim Bray]Along with... اقرأ المزيد »

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 a device's data resources for retrieval and update: Contacts, media store, bookmarks, phone-call log, and so on. It’s hard to find an interesting Android app that... اقرأ المزيد »

Taking the Android Show on the Road

p.billy { color: #800; } p.reto { color: #080; } p.caption {text-align: center; }[This spring, the Android Developer Relations team (where I work, too) went on the road round... اقرأ المزيد »