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 o...

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 he...

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 spe...

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 off...

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...

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. W...

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...

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 #...

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...

Taking the Android Show on the Road

[This spring, the Android Developer Relations team (where I work, too) went on the road round the world with boxes of phones, their laptops ...