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 violations of our Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement or Content Policy. In cases where users may have installed a malicious application that poses a threat,... اقرأ المزيد »

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 problem was detected and corrected, and we believe the user experience is now back to normal. We apologize for the outa... اقرأ المزيد »

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 days that has my heart racing; we’ve... اقرأ المزيد »

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-hall reception. Led by Google Android experts, the Hands-on will run from 7:00 pm-10:00 pm, and will be intense, technical, and structured. The goal is that you leave... اقرأ المزيد »

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 Android’s potential as a single development... اقرأ المزيد »

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 year, you might have noticed the... اقرأ المزيد »

Download Count Problems

Something is apparently wrong in the Android Market. We are getting multiple reports of erroneous download counts. The right people are aware of the situation and are working on it.[Update, Monday morning: The fix was rolled in early Sunday and it seems as though app developers have their missing... اقرأ المزيد »

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 few aggregators and directories, and I think we’re going to need more. But for the moment, here are three pieces of bloggy Android goodness, from Florida, Odessa... اقرأ المزيد »

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 bit and it’s not always clear what... اقرأ المزيد »

Application Visibility Issues

Recently we became aware that some Android applications were not visible on the Android Market. While we were internally troubleshooting and qualifying the fix and communicating with our hardware partners, developers were trying hard to get our help through various technical support sites. Regrettably,... اقرأ المزيد »

Allowing applications to play nice(r) with each other: Handling remote control buttons

[This post is by Jean-Michel Trivi, an engineer working on the Android Media framework, whose T-shirt of the day reads “all your media buttons are belong to you”. — Tim Bray]Many... اقرأ المزيد »