Updates from Googlers Contributing to Open Source Projects

By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team You may recall some of our previous posts about Google employee contributions to Open Source during th... Read more »

OpenGSE Released

By Wenbo Zhu, Software Engineering Team Something that may be of interest to Open Source enthusiasts is the recent release of the Open Goog... Read more »

Surf the Earth

By David Oster, Mac Engineering Team For those of you not following the Google Mac Blog , you may be interested to check out one of our newe... Read more »

Open Sourcing Google Desktop Gadgets

By James Yum, Developer Programs Team The Google Desktop team has been steadily releasing our Desktop gadget (widget) creations as Open Sour... Read more »

CSS Selector Shell Released

By Lindsey Simon, Google User Experience Team Most web developers have felt the pain of discovering or remembering ways in which different b... Read more »

Avoiding memory leaks

Android applications are, at least on the T-Mobile G1, limited to 16 MB of heap. It's both a lot of memory for a phone and yet very litt... Read more »

London OS Jam 11: Security

By Tim Cox, Software Engineering Team The usual mixture of free pizza, beer and talks recently made for another smashing London Google Open ... Read more »

The Globus Alliance's First Google Summer of Code

By Borja Sotomayor, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago and Summer of Code Mentor The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and ... Read more »

Why is my list black? An Android optimization

ListView is one of Android's most widely used widgets. It is rather easy to use, very flexible and incredibly powerful. ListView can a... Read more »

Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released

By J.J. Lueck, Data Liberation Front Blog authors around the world, Google would like to remind you that it's your blog, your data . No... Read more »

The NUI Group's First Google Summer of Code

By Pawel Solyga, Summer of Code Administrator for the NUI Group The Natural User Interface Group (NUI Group) is an interactive media group ... Read more »

google-perftools 1.0 Released

By Craig Silverstein, Technology Director Nearly four years ago, we released our first major Open Source codebase, google-perftools , a set ... Read more »

Can I use this Intent?

Android offers a very powerful and yet easy to use tool called intents . An intent can be use to turn applications into high-level librarie... Read more »