Android Cloud To Device Messaging

[This post is by Wei Huang, who helped implement this feature. — Tim Bray] In the just-launched Android 2.2, we’ve added a new service to he... Read more »

A Bridge to Open Source

Next week, several members of the Open Source Programs office will be in Portland, OR for the second Open Source Bridge conference which t... Read more »

expect(easier testing).andReturn(Android Mock)

The Android development tools provide developers with a host of tools for creating fun, useful and compelling Android applications. Includ... Read more »

Dalvik JIT

[This post is by Dan Bornstein, virtual-machine wrangler. — Tim Bray] As the tech lead for the Dalvik team within the Android project, I spe... Read more »

Google Summer of Code 2010: Coding Starts Today!

Starting today all our students will formally begin coding their projects for Google Summer of Code ™. Our students’ projects this year ran... Read more »

Android Application Error Reports

[This post, the first in a series about new features in Android 2.2 ("Froyo"), is by Jacek Surazski, a Googler from our Krakow off... Read more »

Android 2.2 and developers goodies.

Today at Google I/O we announced that Android 2.2 is right around the corner. This is our seventh platform release since we launched Android... Read more »

The Google TV Story

Vincent Dureau, who’s in charge of Google TV , is a lean, bony-faced man with a strong French accent; not too far off my own age, I’d say. W... Read more »

CloudCourse: An Enterprise Application in the Cloud

At Google we have experts on everything from Python to penguins. However, connecting our expert teachers to eager students around the globe ... Read more »

Latitude API Launch

Over at the Google Code Blog, there's a pretty significant announcement, about the release of APIs for Latitude . the idea, as you might... Read more »

Manage cloud storage from the command line with GSUtil

GSUtil is a command-line tool that helps developers manage their cloud storage. The tool makes it very easy to explore various features of ... Read more »

Stand By...

I'm posting this from Moscone West, the site of Google I/O 2010 . Some things that it may be useful to know: The official hash tag is #... Read more »

The Ashpocalypse

Melange is the open source web app that runs Google Summer of Code ™ each year. It is being developed and maintained by a volunteer team of... Read more »

Introducing the Workspace Mechanic for Eclipse

Hi Internet! I’m Robert Konigsberg, and I’ve spent the last four years working on a team that writes Eclipse plug-ins for our coworkers her... Read more »

Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns

[This post is by Chris Nesladek, Interaction Designer, Richard Fulcher, Interaction Designer, and Virgil Dobjanschi, Software Engineer — Ti... Read more »

Google Summer of Code 2010: Meet the Students!

We’ve had a great showing from students around the world for Google Summer of Code ™ this year. In all, we accepted 1,026 students from 69 c... Read more »

Google I/O 2010

Google I/O , Google’s largest annual developer conference, will take place on May 19-20 at Moscone West San Francisco, and nearly all of the... Read more »

Be Careful With Content Providers

The notion of a Content Provider is central to getting things done in an Android application. This is the mechanism used to expose many of... Read more »

Taking the Android Show on the Road

[This spring, the Android Developer Relations team (where I work, too) went on the road round the world with boxes of phones, their laptops ... Read more »

Don't Copy This Code

UPDATE July 13: We have changed the name of the codelab application to Gruyere. The codelab is now located at http://google-gruyere.appspot.... Read more »

Shawn Pearce on FLOSS Weekly

Recently , the Google Open Source Programs Office’s Shawn Pearce appeared on FLOSS Weekly for the show’s 118th episode . FLOSS Weekly was... Read more »

Season of KDE 2009... and 2010!

At KDE , we benefit each year from new contributions and contributors thanks to Google Summer of Code™. However, we always have more great p... Read more »