Student Applications Open for 2009 OpenUsability Season of Usability

Inspired by Google Summer of Code™ , the OpenUsability Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students... Read more »

Backward compatibility for Android applications

Android 1.5 introduced a number of new features that application developers can take advantage of, like virtual input devices and speech rec... Read more »

Android 1.5 at Google I/O

I admit, I've been talking big about Google I/O in my last few posts. But I'm entirely serious: Google I/O is going to be the Andro... Read more »

Android 1.5 is here!

I've got some good news today: the Android 1.5 SDK, release 1 is ready! Grab it from the download page . For an overview of the new Andr... Read more »

Distributed Version Control for Project Hosting Users

Love our Open Source project hosting service but wish it supported distributed version control? Pine no longer! You can find full details a... Read more »

Introducing GLSurfaceView

GLSurfaceView is a new API class in Android 1.5. GLSurfaceView makes OpenGL ES applications easier to write by: Providing the glue code to c... Read more »

Live folders

Live folders have been introduced in Android 1.5 and let you display any source of data on the Home screen without forcing the user to launc... Read more »

Future-Proofing Your Apps

Hi, developers! I hope you've heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some gre... Read more »

Creating an Input Method

To create an input method (IME) for entering text into text fields and other Views, you need to extend android.inputmethodservice.InputMetho... Read more »

Now Accepting Nominations for the 5th Annual Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards

The  Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards  are back again for 2009! These awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated e... Read more »

Updating Applications for On-screen Input Methods

One of the major new features we are introducing in Android 1.5 is our Input Method Framework (IMF), which allows developers on-screen input... Read more »

Introducing home screen widgets and the AppWidget framework

One exciting new feature in the Android 1.5 SDK is the AppWidget framework which allows developers to write "widgets" that people ... Read more »

Announcing Accepted Students for Google Summer of Code™ 2009

Students in 70 countries are now celebrating their acceptance in to the Google Summer of Code 2009 program! For our fifth year running the ... Read more »

"Common Sense" at Open Everything, NYC

Google's Leslie Hawthorn is a featured speaker at the upcoming Open Everything NYC 2009 conference this Saturday. The conference is a... Read more »

UI framework changes in Android 1.5

On Monday, we released an early look at the Android 1.5 SDK . Not only does this platform update contain numerous new features , APIs, and b... Read more »

Writing Talking Applications for Android

Toward the end of last year, we released an Android binding to eSpeak , an Open Source Text To Speech (TTS) engine that provides support fo... Read more »

Getting ready for Android 1.5

I'm excited to announce that starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. T... Read more »

A Beginner's Guide to Google Summer of Code™

Adam Rakowski, Polish Society of Electrical Engineers (SEP) student and Google Summer of Code 2008 student working on Tux4Kids , organiz... Read more »

Google Update Goes Open Source

Keeping software up to date is very important. Not only does it mean that users will always have all the cool new features that we work so h... Read more »