Googlers on the Loose at OSCON

In three weeks, Googlers from offices around the world will be gathering in Portland, OR for OSCON , O'Reilly Media’s annual open sourc... Read more »

Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature

[This post is by Rich Cannings, Android Security Lead. — Tim Bray] Every now and then, we remove applications from Android Market due to vio... Read more »

Android Market Problem

Earlier today we had a brief outage in Android Market. For a period of about thirty minutes, some users were unable to find any apps. The pr... Read more »

Google Summer of Code 2010 San Francisco Meetup

Carol Smith and Cat Allman (5th and 1st from right) with with meetup participants Two weeks ago, Google’s San Francisco office hosted a Goog... Read more »

The Froyo Code Drop

[This post is by Jean-Baptiste Queru , who moves truck-loads of source code in and out of the Googleplex. — Tim Bray] Today is one of those ... Read more »

Hands-on at OSCON

This year at OSCON we and O’Reilly are co-presenting Android Hands-on . The event is on the evening of Wednesday, July 21 after the Expo-h... Read more »

Future-Proofing Your App

[This post is by Reto Meier AKA @retomeier , who wrote the book on Android App development. — Tim Bray] As a developer, I’m excited by And... Read more »

Introducing the Google Command Line Tool

Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt? We did, a lot, last summer. It made us want to say: $ googl... Read more »

Birds of a Feather at Open Source Bridge

The second annual Open Source Bridge , held in Portland, Oregon, was a blast. I presented a talk on Foundations, Non-Profits, and Open Sourc... Read more »

Zurich Open Source Jam 8

After a period of careful consideration and planning, a new edition of the Zurich Open Source Jam took place on May 27th. This time, the f... Read more »

Game Development for Android: A Quick Primer

[This post is by Chris Pruett , an outward-facing Androider who focuses on the world of games. — Tim Bray] If you attended Google I/O this ... Read more »

Download Count Problems

Something is apparently wrong in the Android Market. We are getting multiple reports of erroneous download counts. The right people are aw... Read more »

Notes from SambaXP 2010

Hello, I’m Jeremy Allison , a Google engineer in the Open Source Programs Office and a Samba Team member. I recently returned from SambaX... Read more »

Blogging Round the World

It seems that once or twice a week, I run across an Android-developer-oriented site that I hadn’t previously noticed. There are already a f... Read more »

Umit Project 2010

Umit Project is an international open source organization focused on network monitoring, with the goal of making life easier for network ad... Read more »

Making Sense of Multitouch

[This post is by Adam Powell, one of our more touchy-feely Android engineers. — Tim Bray] The word “multitouch” gets thrown around quite a b... Read more »

Application Visibility Issues

Recently we became aware that some Android applications were not visible on the Android Market. While we were internally troubleshooting and... Read more »

Code, Open Source, and Summer Love on the 17th Floor

Jon Trowbridge and Borja Sotomayor welcome students to the Google Chicago office It's springtime in Chicago, and that can only mean one ... Read more »

Allowing applications to play nice(r) with each other: Handling remote control buttons

[This post is by Jean-Michel Trivi, an engineer working on the Android Media framework, whose T-shirt of the day reads “all your media butto... Read more »