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 vio...

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 pr...

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 ...

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-h...

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 And...

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 ...

Download Count Problems

Something is apparently wrong in the Android Market. We are getting multiple reports of erroneous download counts. The right people are aw...

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 f...

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 b...

Application Visibility Issues

Recently we became aware that some Android applications were not visible on the Android Market. While we were internally troubleshooting and...

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 butto...