Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText()

[This post is by Jesse Wilson from the Dalvik team. —Tim Bray] Using XmlPullParser is an efficient and maintainable way to parse XML on An...

Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools

Today we are announcing Android 4.0.3, an incremental release of the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) platform. The new release includes a v...

Introducing Android Training

[This post is by Reto Meier , Android Developer Relations Tech Lead. — Tim Bray] Today I’m thrilled to announce the beta launch of Android T...

More Android Games that Play Nice

[This post is by Dan Galpin , who lives the Android Games lifestyle every day. — Tim Bray] Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great ...

Add Voice Typing To Your IME

[This post is by Luca Zanolin, an Android engineer who works on voice typing. — Tim Bray] A new feature available in Android 4.0 is voice ty...

A Closer Look at 10 Billion Downloads

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] On Tuesday, we announced that Android Market passed 10 Billion app ...

10 Billion Android Market Downloads and Counting

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, whe...

Games Coming to Android Market in Korea

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] In the 24 months since the first Android device became available lo...

Making Android Games that Play Nice

[This post is by Ian Ni-Lewis , a Developer Advocate who devotes most of his time to making Android games more awesome. — Tim Bray] Making ...

Updated NDK for Android 4.0

Today we are releasing an updated version of the Android NDK, now in revision 7. The updated NDK lets developers who are using native code g...

New Layout Widgets: Space and GridLayout

[This post is by Philip Milne , who is part of the Android framework team. — Tim Bray] Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) sports two new widgets that ...

More Android Developer Labs in Asia

A couple of months ago, we kicked off a series of Android Developer Labs in Asia, North America and Europe . To wrap up the 2011 series, we...

JNI Local Reference Changes in ICS

[This post is by Elliott Hughes, a Software Engineer on the Dalvik team. — Tim Bray] If you don’t write native code that uses JNI, you can s...

Android 4.0 Graphics and Animations

[This post is by Romain Guy and Chet Haase, Android engineers who have been known to collaborate on the subject of graphics, UIs, and anima...

Introducing Android WebDriver

[This post is by Dounia Berrada, an engineer on the EngTools team. — Tim Bray] Selenium WebDriver is a browser automation tool which provide...

Changes to Library Projects in Android SDK Tools, r14

Last week, we released the SDK for Android 4.0 and a new set of developer tools, now in revision 14. The updated tools include a lot of buil...

New Public APIs in ICS

Since Android is open-source, anyone can look at the code and see how it works inside. If you do this, you’ll notice that most but not all ...

Android 4.0 Platform and Updated SDK Tools

Today we are announcing Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich — a new version of the platform that brings a refined, unified user experience for p...