Creating Your Own Spelling Checker Service

Posted by Satoshi Kataoka and Ken Wakasa of the Android text input engineering team The Spelling Checker framework improves the text-input e...

Getting Your App Ready for Jelly Bean and Nexus 7

[ This post is by Nick Butcher , an Android engineer who notices small imperfections, and they annoy him. ] We are pleased to announce that ...

Google I/O and Beyond

[ This post is by Reto Meier , Android Developer Relations Tech Lead ] With most of the Android Developer Relations team now fully recovered...

Android SDK Tools, Revision 20

[This post is by Xavier Ducrohet , Tech Lead for the Android developer tools] Along with the preview of the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) platfo...

Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more

[This post is by Angana Ghosh , Product Manager on the Android team] At Google I/O today we announced the latest version of the Android ...

Replying to User Reviews on Google Play

[This post is by Trevor Johns from the Android team — Tim Bray] User reviews on Google Play are great for helping people discover quality a...

Helping you build beautiful, powerful, successful apps

[This post is by Billy Rutledge , Director of Developer Relations for Android. — Tim Bray] Just in time for Google I/O next week, the Androi...

Using DialogFragments

[This post is by David Chandler , Android Developer Advocate — Tim Bray] Honeycomb introduced Fragments to support reusing portions of UI an...

In-app Subscriptions in Google Play

[This post is by Ibrahim Elbouchikhi, Product Manager on the Google Play team. —Dirk Dougherty] We launched In-app Billing on Google Play a ...

Android C2DM — Client Login key expiration

[This post is by Francesco Nerieri , engineering team lead for C2DM — Tim Bray] In the upcoming weeks, some of the older Client Login authen...

New Seller Countries in Google Play

Over the past year we’ve been working to expand the list of countries and currencies from which Android developers can sell their products. ...

Accessibility: Are You Serving All Your Users?

[This post is by Joe Fernandez , a technical writer for developer.android.com who cares about accessibility and usability. — Tim Bray.] We...

A Faster Emulator with Better Hardware Support

[This post is by Xavier Ducrohet and Reto Meier of the Android engineering team. — Tim Bray.] The Android emulator is a key tool for Android...

The Gmail Public Labels API

[This post is by Nadav Aharony, a product manager on the Android team — Tim Bray] We’re rolling out new developer features for the Gmail And...

Making the Android Developer Console work for your whole team

[This post is by Ellie Powers , a product manager on the Google Play team. — Tim Bray] As your apps have gotten more successful, more people...

New Sales Reports on Google Play

[This post is by Debashish Chatterjee, Krishna Atkuru, and Ellie Powers of the Google Play Publisher Site team. —Dirk Dougherty] For app pub...

Updated SDK Tools and ADT revision 17

Today we are releasing an update to the SDK Tools and the Eclipse plugin. Revision 17 brings a lot of new features and bug fixes in various ...

Unifying Key Store Access in ICS

[This post is a group effort by Tony Chan, Fred Chung, Brian Carlstrom, and Kenny Root. — Tim Bray] Android 4.0 (ICS) comes with a number of...

Introducing Google Play

[This post is by Kenneth Lui, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] For more than a year we’ve been focused on expanding the reach, ...

Android Apps Break the 50MB Barrier

Android applications have historically been limited to a maximum size of 50MB. This works for most apps, and smaller is usually better — eve...