New Functionality for Moodle

By Cristin Frodella, Google Apps for Education Team We're always excited to jump into the world of education and when it helps Open Sour... Read more »

Android Layout Tricks #2: Reusing layouts

Android comes with a wide variety of widgets , small visual construction blocks you can glue together to present the users with complex and ... Read more »

W3C Forms Working Group Convenes at the Googleplex

Post by T.V. Raman, Research Scientist I have been a member of the W3C Forms Working Group since its inception in early 2000, and it gave ... Read more »

Android Layout Tricks #1

The Android UI toolkit offers several layout managers that are rather easy to use and, most of the time, you only need the basic features of... Read more »

Zurich Open Source Jam 6

By René Nussbaumer, Systems Administration Team We started the evening slowly, and by around 18:30 almost everyone had arrived to enjoy the ... Read more »

Android Market update: priced applications for US users

Last Friday, we enabled developers to upload priced apps and saw a flurry of activity in the days that followed. Today, it is my pleasure t... Read more »

OpenStreetMap's New API Database Server

By Ellen Ko, Open Source Team A few weeks ago Mano Marks, a Geo Developer Advocate here at Google, informed the Open Source Programs Office ... Read more »

Faster screen orientation change

Android is a mobile operating system meant to be run on a wide array of devices, with very different hardware configurations. Some devices, ... Read more »

Software Construction Toolkit Released

By Randall Spangler, Software Engineer - Client Tools Team If you've ever worked on a cross-platform software project, you know how ofte... Read more »

Android Market update: support for priced applications

I'm pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers. Developers from these count... Read more »

Oxford Geeks Run the Gamut from Hardware Hacking to Navigating Social Media

By J-P Stacey, Oxford Geek The most recent Oxford Geek Night had a record number of attendees — well over 150 — and filled the Jericho Tave... Read more »

Track memory allocations

Despite the impressive hardware of the first Android phones (T-Mobile G1 and ADP1) writing efficient mobile applications is not always strai... Read more »

Apps that work together

Android applications can easily be linked together using intents . One example of this involves Shazam, MySpace, and the Amazon MP3 Store. ... Read more »

Googlers and Py3K

By Brett Cannon, Software Engineering Team December 3, 2008 was an historic day for the Python community: Python 3.0 was released. Under s... Read more »

Android 1.1 SDK, release 1 Now Available

Hello, developers! As you may have heard by now, users around the world have started to receive updates to their Android devices that provi... Read more »

Updates to Our Project Hosting Service

By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team Users of Google Code Project Hosting rejoice! The Subversion component of this service has now been u... Read more »

Googlers Out and About - FOSDEM and Beyond...

By Cat Allman, Google Open Source Programs It's going to be chilly next week in Brussels but FOSDEM is always a place to explore hot t... Read more »

Google Earth, Open Standards, and libkml

By Michael Weiss-Malik, KML Product Manager As you may have heard, a new version of Google Earth was released today. As has been the case ... Read more »