Heading for GDC

[This post is by Chris Pruett, who writes regularly about games here, and is obviously pretty cranked about this conference. — Tim Bray] And... Read more »

Geek Time with Jim Zemlin

Jim Zemlin is the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation , and earlier this month he sat down with the Open Source Programs Office’s Je... Read more »

Animation in Honeycomb

[This post is by Chet Haase, an Android engineer who specializes in graphics and animation, and who occasionally posts videos and articles o... Read more »

Best Practices for Honeycomb and Tablets

The first tablets running Android 3.0 (“Honeycomb”) will be hitting the streets on Thursday Feb. 24th, and we’ve just posted the full SDK r... Read more »

Thermometers and Temperature

Here are a few great sites to use when learning about thermometers and temperature: Math is Fun : This thermometer shows the temperature in ... Read more »

Final Android 3.0 Platform and Updated SDK Tools

We are pleased to announce that the full SDK for Android 3.0 is now available to developers. The APIs are final, and you can now develop app... Read more »

Googlers at Tech@State: Open Source Technology Conference

Earlier this month two members of the Google Open Source Programs Office, Chris DiBona and Jeremy Allison , traveled to Washington, D.C. to... Read more »

I Have Come From The Land Down Under....

Along with an unintended tan from the Brisbane sun and a serious sense of awe at how large golden silk orb-weavers are, I came home from l... Read more »

Use Google Apps APIs without writing a program

Today we are releasing the Google Apps Shell Interface (GASI), a graphical user interface for administrators working with Google Apps APIs ... Read more »

Google Code-in Grand Prize Winners

Today we are pleased to announce the grand prize winners of the Google Code-in contest. We first want to thank all the participants for the... Read more »

UseR Meetup at Google San Francisco

Earlier this week, Google hosted the Bay Area useR Group at our San Francisco office . Over 40 attendees showed up to hear Dylan Beaudette... Read more »

Introducing Renderscript

[This post is by R. Jason Sams, an Android engineer who specializes in graphics, performance tuning, and software architecture. —Tim Bray] R... Read more »

Android 2.3.3 Platform, New NFC Capabilities

Several weeks ago we released Android 2.3 , which introduced several new forms of communication for developers and users. One of those, Near... Read more »

Comparing Numbers with More and Less Symbols

Dreambox Learning has some great interactive math activities that can be used on your Smartboard.  Dreambox Learning is a subscription base... Read more »

Google Code-In Final Statistics

Thank you to all of the participants in Google Code-In , a contest designed to introduce pre-university students from around the world to th... Read more »

Contracts for Java

If you’ve ever spent hours debugging your Java code, today’s blog post is for you. Often bugs that are frustratingly elusive and hard to tra... Read more »

The Android 3.0 Fragments API

[This post is by Dianne Hackborn, a Software Engineer who sits very near the exact center of everything Android. — Tim Bray] An important go... Read more »

New Merchandising and Billing Features on Android Market

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] Following on last week’s announcement of the Android 3.0 Preview SD... Read more »