Improving Freenet's Performance

The  Free Network project  is the community that creates and maintains  Freenet , free software that allows you publish and obtain informati... Read more »

Web Storage Portability Layer: A Common API for Web Storage

As discussed in our Google Code Blog post on HTML5 for Gmail Mobile , Google's new version of Gmail for iPhone and Android-powered devic... Read more »

Support for Mercurial Now Available for All Projects Hosted on Google Code

You may recall that we recently asked for help from some early testers of  Mercurial on Project Hosting on Google Code . As of today, all of... Read more »

Calling all developers for Android Developer Challenge 2!

I'm excited to announce the second Android Developer Challenge (ADC)! The first challenge was a huge success with over 1,700 entries tha... Read more »

Android Icon Guidelines

For our second post in our series on Android UI, we're releasing our Icon Design Guidelines and an Android Icon Templates Pack . These ... Read more »

Lightning talks at Google I/O

Google I/O is approaching, and with over ten quality talks lined up, we should all strive to be attentive, avid learners. But for the last... Read more »

2009 Google Summer of Code™ Celebration at Beijing LUG

Newly elected BLUG President, Pockey Lam, handing over Google Summer of Code stickers The Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) invited all the ... Read more »

Happy Birthday, ICU!

The ICU project is celebrating 10 years of being open source this month. "ICU" in this case stands for International Components f... Read more »

Report from Day 2 of the Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop, April 6-7th, 2009

(The sequel to Report from Day 1 ) The first official discussion of the day was around optimizing Solid State Disk performance, led by Matth... Read more »

Zurich Open Source Jam 7

We did it again, and we are getting better at it. Last Thursday, May 7th we hosted the 7th Open Source Jam in Zurich. It was probably our la... Read more »

Google Update Releases Update Controls

Whenever we build out new products and features at Google, we try to ensure that we provide users with two key components: transparency and... Read more »

Spreading the Summer Love in Chicago

There are many ways to get the word out about Google Summer of Code™ , and one of the most fun ways is the Google Summer of Code meetups ... Read more »

Introducing WebDriver

WebDriver is a clean, fast framework for automated testing of webapps. Why is it needed? And what problems does it solve that existing frame... Read more »

O BSDCanada!

BSDCan 2009 , an annual BSD conference at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada will be held this year on May 8th and 9th, 2009. The ... Read more »

Painless threading

Whenever you first start an Android application, a thread called "main" is automatically created. The main thread, also called the... Read more »

Drawable mutations

Android's drawables are extremely useful to easily build applications. A Drawable is a pluggable drawing container that is usually asso... Read more »

Widget Design Guidelines

Since the beginning of the year, the Android UI team has been hard at work on the Android 1.5 release. Starting today with widgets, we would... Read more »

Report from Day 1 of the Linux Storage and Filesystems Workshop, April 6-7, 2009

My karma was apparently very good three weeks ago. In the last minute I secured an invitation to Linux Storage and Filesystems Workshop 2009... Read more »