More Payment Options in Android Market

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] A key to a great purchasing experience is providing users with simp...

It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness

[This post is by Nick Kralevich, an engineer on the Android Security Team. — Tim Bray] “Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!”...

Android Browser User-Agent Issues

[This post is by Bart Sears, who manages the Android Browser team. —Tim Bray] This posting describes some issues when browsing websites with...

Analytics for Android Apps

[This post is by Alexander Lucas, an Android Developer Advocate bent on saving the world 5 minutes. —Tim Bray] With the addition of custom ...

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...

Improving App Quality

[This post is by Roman Nurik , who is passionate about icons. —Tim Bray] With thousands of new apps being published in Android Market every ...

Traceview War Story

I recently took my first serious look at Traceview , and it occurred to me, first, that there are probably a few other Android developers wh...

The Five Steps to Future Hardware Happiness

[This post is by Reto Meier AKA @retomeier , who wrote the book on Android App development. —Tim Bray] Two questions I regularly get asked...

Android Market New Country Roll-out Details

[This post is by the Android Market team. — Tim Bray] Last week, we announced that over the next two weeks, users in 18 additional countri...

More Countries, More sellers, More buyers

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. — Tim Bray] Since we launched Android and Android Market, we have seen the populatio...

Reflections on G-Kenya

[This post is by Reto Meier AKA @retomeier , who wrote the book on Android App development. — Tim Bray] Recently I visited Kenya for the t...

Proguard, Android, and the Licensing Server

[This post is by Dan Galpin, an Android Developer Advocate specializing in games and comics. — Tim Bray] The Securing Android LVL Applicatio...