Licensing Server News

It’s been reported that someone has figured out, and published, a way to hack some Android apps to bypass our new Android Market licensing s...

A Little Too Popular

A couple of weeks ago, we arranged that registered developers could buy an unlocked Nexus One via their publisher page in Android Market. We...

Two Simple Questions

And the answers to them, posted here and there by senior Android engineers. How much memory is my app using? Over at Stack Overflow, our own...

Powering Chrome to Phone with Android Cloud to Device Messaging

[This post is by Dave Burke, who's an Engineering Manager 80% of the time. — Tim Bray] Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) was lau...

Nexus One Developer Phone

We've always offered unlocked phones for direct sale to registered Android Developers. As of today, the Developer Phone is the Nexus One...

Best Practices for Handling Android User Data

[This post is by Nick Kralevich, an engineer on the Android Security Team. — Tim Bray] As the use of mobile applications grows, people are ...