Swivel Viewer, an open source embeddable album viewer

A while back, we noticed that lots of sites were starting to show 360 degree views of their products. So a few months ago we added a featur... Read more »

Notes from useR! 2010

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used by a growing number of economists , engineers , and data anal... Read more »

London OS Jam 17: Speeeeed

Just over a week ago, we hosted Google London Open Source Jam 17 . The event is an opportunity for open source developers to give five minut... Read more »

Licensing Service Technology Highlights

We’ve just announced the introduction of a licensing server for Android Market. This should address one of the concerns we’ve heard repeated... Read more »

Licensing Service For Android Applications

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. — Tim Bray] In my conversations with Android developers, I often hear that you’d lik... Read more »

Chris DiBona’s OSCON Keynote: Your Work in Open Source

If you missed seeing Google’s Open Source Programs Manager Chris DiBona speak live at OSCON last week, the video from his keynote is now... Read more »

Adjustment to Market Legals

Please note that we have updated the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA). This is in preparation for some work we’re doing... Read more »

Live Waving at OSCON 2010

With OSCON underway, we're excited about the opportunities that many of us have to present at the conference and we've taken some ... Read more »

Multithreading For Performance

[This post is by Gilles Debunne, an engineer in the Android group who loves to get multitasked. — Tim Bray] A good practice in creating resp... Read more »

Market Statistics Adjustments

If you look closely today, you'll notice that some per-app Android Market statistics have lower values; not big differences, but noticea... Read more »

Android Market Welcomes Korea!

As of today, Android Market is open for business to application buyers in the Republic of Korea. We hope that this will make the outstandin... Read more »

How to have your (Cup)cake and eat it too

[This post is by Adam Powell, his second touchy-feely outing in just a few weeks. I asked him to send me a better picture than we ran last ... Read more »

Google Summer of Code BoF at USENIX

USENIX is a technical organization that has a lot of community members associated with our open source efforts as well as lots of strong tie... Read more »

Apps on SD Card: The Details

[This post is by Suchi Amalapurapu, an engineer who worked on this feature. — Tim Bray] Android 2.2 supports application installation on ext... Read more »

Android 2.2 SDK refresh

As you may have noticed , the source code for Android 2.2, which we call Froyo, has been released. The Android 2.2 SDK that was released at ... Read more »

Android Love at OSCON

Android developers who aren't already going should take a moment to check out the OSCON 2010 schedule, and give serious thought to a tr... Read more »

Google Summer of Code 2010: Meet The Students and Mentors!

Following up on my post from a few weeks ago, I’d like to give you all some more statistics about our Google Summer of Code™ program partic... Read more »