Merry Music: MusicBrainz's Latest Summit and 10th Anniversary

The yearly MusicBrainz summit serves an important function in building our community: we talk about issues facing MusicBrainz and we plan t... Read more »

Hello, Stack Overflow!

Over the past year, an Android presence has been growing on a relatively new technical Q&A web site called Stack Overflow . The site was... Read more »

London Open Source Jam 15

On the 3rd of December we held the latest (and greatest) Google London Open Source Jam at our offices near Victoria . The Jam is a way to g... Read more »

Back and other hard keys: three stories

Android 2.0 introduces new behavior and support for handling hard keys such as BACK and MENU , including some special features to support t... Read more »

New resources and sample code on developer.android.com

Hey Android developers—if you've visited the online Android SDK documentation recently, you may have noticed a few changes. That's ... Read more »

Knowing is half the battle

As a developer, I often wonder which Android platforms my applications should support,especially as the number of Android-powered devices gr... Read more »

Rocking the Grid: The Globus Alliance's Second Google Summer of Code

The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the " Grid ," whic... Read more »

Introducing namebench

Slow DNS servers can make for a terrible web browsing experience , but knowing which one to use isn't easy. namebench is a new open sou... Read more »

Come to Our Virtual Office Hours

Starting this week, we're going to be holding regular IRC office hours for Android app developers in the #android-dev channel on irc.fre... Read more »

Optimize your layouts

Writing user interface layouts for Android applications is easy, but it can sometimes be difficult to optimize them. Most often, heavy modif... Read more »

Joomla! Google Summer of Code™ 2009: Lots to Shout About

The Joomla! project was thrilled to sponsor 18 Google Summer of Code students for 2009, and we are pleased to report that 16 (89%) success... Read more »

Android SDK Updates

Today we are releasing updates to multiple components of the Android SDK: Android 2.0.1, revision 1 Android 1.6, revision 2 SDK Tools, revis... Read more »

Etherboot Project GSoC 2009 Report

The Etherboot Project is very pleased to have participated in Google Summer of Code™ 2009 . This summer marks our fourth consecutive annua... Read more »

Announcing the Winners of ADC 2

Back in May at Google I/O, we announced ADC 2 -- the second Android Developer Challenge -- to encourage the development of cool apps that d... Read more »