March 6, 2012 Android applications have historically been limited to a maximum size of 50MB. This works for most apps, and smaller is usually better — every megabyte you add makes it harder for your users to download and get started. Read more [...]

January 16, 2012 We’ve just scheduled Android Developer Labs for Melbourne (January 31), Sydney (February 3), and Auckland (February 8). The material is not introductory; it’s aimed at people with existing apps who want to make them better in the era of Ice Cream Sandwich and tablets. You’ll want to show up with the SDK installed, and a couple of devices. Read more [...]

December 19, 2011 [This post is by Jesse Wilson from the Dalvik team. —Tim Bray] Using XmlPullParser is an efficient and maintainable way to parse XML on Android Read more [...]

December 8, 2011 [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] On Tuesday, we announced that Android Market passed 10 Billion app downloads Read more [...]

December 6, 2011 [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement Read more [...]