Licensing Service Technology Highlights

We’ve just announced the introduction of a licensing server for Android Market. This should address one of the concerns we’ve heard repeatedly from the Android developer... اقرأ المزيد »

Licensing Service For Android Applications

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. — Tim Bray]In my conversations with Android developers, I often hear that you’d like better protection against unauthorized... اقرأ المزيد »

Adjustment to Market Legals

Please note that we have updated the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA). This is in preparation for some work we’re doing on introducing new payment options, which we think developers will like.In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to highlight the changes:In Section 13.1, “authorized... اقرأ المزيد »

Multithreading For Performance

[This post is by Gilles Debunne, an engineer in the Android group who loves to get multitasked. — Tim Bray]A good practice in creating responsive applications is to make... اقرأ المزيد »

Market Statistics Adjustments

If you look closely today, you'll notice that some per-app Android Market statistics have lower values; not big differences, but noticeable in a few cases. We discovered last week that, starting in early June, certain events had been double-counted: installs, uninstalls, impressions, and so on. The... اقرأ المزيد »

Android Market Welcomes Korea!

As of today, Android Market is open for business to application buyers in the Republic of Korea. We hope that this will make the outstanding Android devices now available in that nation even more useful and fun. We welcome the people of Korea, acknowledged everywhere as one of the world's most-wired... اقرأ المزيد »

How to have your (Cup)cake and eat it too

[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.... اقرأ المزيد »

Apps on SD Card: The Details

[This post is by Suchi Amalapurapu, an engineer who worked on this feature. — Tim Bray]Android 2.2 supports application installation on external storage devices like the SD card. This should give users room for many more apps, and will also benefit certain categories, like games, that need huge assets.(Note... اقرأ المزيد »

Android 2.2 SDK refresh

As you may have noticed, the source code for Android 2.2, which we call Froyo, has been released.The Android 2.2 SDK that was released at Google I/O contained a preview of the Froyo system image and today, we are releasing an update to bring it into sync with the system image pushed to Nexus One devices.I... اقرأ المزيد »

Android Love at OSCON

Android developers who aren't already going should take a moment to check out the OSCON 2010 schedule, and give serious thought to a trip to Portland in a couple of weeks. OSCON is one of the world's premiere events for those who care about Open Source, and one of my personal favorite conferences,... اقرأ المزيد »