An update on JavaOne

(Cross-posted from the Google Code Blog ) Like many of you, every year we look forward to the workshops, conferences and events related to o... Read more »

Interviews from GUADEC, Part 2

At many open source conferences, discussions about diversity come up and there is a lot of talk about how to make the open source community ... Read more »

Acre, an open source platform for building Freebase apps

Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data that contains information about 12 million real-world entitie... Read more »

Our 6th Google Summer of Code Has Come to an End

We’ve just finished our 6th year of Google Summer of Code™, our innovative program designed to introduce students at colleges and universiti... Read more »

Licensing Server News

It’s been reported that someone has figured out, and published, a way to hack some Android apps to bypass our new Android Market licensing s... Read more »

Interviews @ GUADEC, part 1

Jeremy Allison , co-founder of Samba and member of the Google Open Source Programs Office , recently returned from GUADEC , the GNOME conf... Read more »

A Little Too Popular

A couple of weeks ago, we arranged that registered developers could buy an unlocked Nexus One via their publisher page in Android Market. We... Read more »

Ready, Set, Go

Rob Pike , Google Distinguished Engineer and co-creator of the Go programming language , presented an OSCON keynote last month about his mo... Read more »

Two Simple Questions

And the answers to them, posted here and there by senior Android engineers. How much memory is my app using? Over at Stack Overflow, our own... Read more »

FISL, I was there \o/

GNU and Me My name is Marcos Paulino Roriz Junior , and I’m participating in Google Summer of Code ™ for the first time this year. I’m re... Read more »

Powering Chrome to Phone with Android Cloud to Device Messaging

[This post is by Dave Burke, who's an Engineering Manager 80% of the time. — Tim Bray] Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) was lau... Read more »

BSDCan through the years

I’m Kirk Russell , a Google Site Reliability Engineer who moves files around the cloud at a massive scale. I use BSD software on a daily ... Read more »

São Paulo Open Source Jam 2

On July 14th, Google Brazil hosted the 2nd Open Source Jam in São Paulo, Brazil . We had about 40 attendees and 10 talks! Here is a quick s... Read more »

Google Summer of Code Midterm Evaluations

Midterm evaluations for Google Summer of Code 2010™ have wrapped up and we have some great news about the program. Out of the over 1,000 pa... Read more »

Nexus One Developer Phone

We've always offered unlocked phones for direct sale to registered Android Developers. As of today, the Developer Phone is the Nexus One... Read more »

Best Practices for Handling Android User Data

[This post is by Nick Kralevich, an engineer on the Android Security Team. — Tim Bray] As the use of mobile applications grows, people are ... Read more »