Student Applications Open for 2009 OpenUsability Season of Usability

Inspired by Google Summer of Code™ , the OpenUsability Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students... Read more »

Backward compatibility for Android applications

Android 1.5 introduced a number of new features that application developers can take advantage of, like virtual input devices and speech rec... Read more »

Android 1.5 at Google I/O

I admit, I've been talking big about Google I/O in my last few posts. But I'm entirely serious: Google I/O is going to be the Andro... Read more »

Android 1.5 is here!

I've got some good news today: the Android 1.5 SDK, release 1 is ready! Grab it from the download page . For an overview of the new Andr... Read more »

Distributed Version Control for Project Hosting Users

Love our Open Source project hosting service but wish it supported distributed version control? Pine no longer! You can find full details a... Read more »

Introducing GLSurfaceView

GLSurfaceView is a new API class in Android 1.5. GLSurfaceView makes OpenGL ES applications easier to write by: Providing the glue code to c... Read more »

Live folders

Live folders have been introduced in Android 1.5 and let you display any source of data on the Home screen without forcing the user to launc... Read more »

Future-Proofing Your Apps

Hi, developers! I hope you've heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some gre... Read more »

Creating an Input Method

To create an input method (IME) for entering text into text fields and other Views, you need to extend android.inputmethodservice.InputMetho... Read more »