New Gingerbread API: StrictMode

[This post is by Brad Fitzpatrick , an Android Software Engineer who worries unreasonably about responsiveness. —Tim Bray] Back Story One gr...

Android Market Client Update

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improv...

Saving Data Safely

With the advent of Gingerbread, we’re going to be running a series of posts in this space about the aspects of Android 2.3 that developers s...

Android 2.3 Platform and Updated SDK Tools

Today we're announcing a new version of the Android platform — Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It includes many new platform technologies an...

Content Rating for Android Market

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Tim Bray] Providing users with more information about applications on Android Marke...

Market Housekeeping Alert

We’ve had quite a bit of discussion in this space recently about how to make sure that your app is visible in Android Market to any device t...

Android Market Action

Almost instantly after I joined Google, it became obvious to me that the number-one area where Android developers wanted to see action and p...