Geek Time with Chris DiBona

The end of the year is always a great time to take a moment and look back at the developments of the past twelve months. Two members of the ... Read more »

Notes from the 2010 LLVM Developers' Meeting

My name is Lang Hames, and I am a PhD student at the University of Sydney where I research aggressive register allocation techniques. Last... Read more »

More Payment Options in Android Market

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] A key to a great purchasing experience is providing users with simp... Read more »

It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness

[This post is by Nick Kralevich, an engineer on the Android Security Team. — Tim Bray] “Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!”... Read more »

Now on YouTube: googleOSPO

You may have noticed that this blog has been featuring more videos recently. Today we are launching a new YouTube channel, googleOSPO , to ... Read more »

Geek Time with Peter Brown

When the Free Software Foundation ’s executive director, Peter Brown , visited the Google offices last week, he graciously offered his time ... Read more »

Android Browser User-Agent Issues

[This post is by Bart Sears, who manages the Android Browser team. —Tim Bray] This posting describes some issues when browsing websites with... Read more »

WindowBuilder becomes new open source project

When Google acquired Instantiations , the maker of a suite of Java development tools, we made many of their Java Eclipse tools available for... Read more »

Postini EZCommand Shell makes things even easier

Today, we are open sourcing the Postini EZCommand Shell , a Perl script allowing Postini administrators to issue EZCommands to Postini from ... Read more »

Analytics for Android Apps

[This post is by Alexander Lucas, an Android Developer Advocate bent on saving the world 5 minutes. —Tim Bray] With the addition of custom ... Read more »

Christmas Interactive Games

Here are some Christmas themed games to use in the classroom for learning and for fun: Christmas Tree Lights : Light up the tree by connecti... Read more »

Google Code-in Check-in

We wanted to do a quick check-in on Google Code-in to let you know how the contest is going. We are just over four weeks into the contest –... Read more »

New Gingerbread API: StrictMode

[This post is by Brad Fitzpatrick , an Android Software Engineer who worries unreasonably about responsiveness. —Tim Bray] Back Story One gr... Read more »

Android Market Client Update

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improv... Read more »

Saving Data Safely

With the advent of Gingerbread, we’re going to be running a series of posts in this space about the aspects of Android 2.3 that developers s... Read more »

Google Days in the Middle East

Chris DiBona , head of the Google Open Source Programs Office, is in the Middle East this week to talk to attendees at G-Egypt and G-Jorda... Read more »