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 repeated...

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 lik...

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...

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 resp...

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 noticea...

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 outstandin...

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 ...

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 ext...

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 ...

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 tr...