March 29, 2012 [This post is by Ellie Powers , a product manager on the Google Play team. — Tim Bray] As your apps have gotten more successful, more people have joined your team. Read more [...]

March 21, 2012 Today we are releasing an update to the SDK Tools and the Eclipse plugin. Revision 17 brings a lot of new features and bug fixes in various areas such as Lint, the build system as well as the emulator. Read more [...]

February 28, 2012 If you've published an app on Android Market, you’ve probably used Application Statistics to help tune your development and marketing efforts. Application Statistics is a set of dashboards in the Developer Console that shows your app’s installation performance across key dimensions such as countries, platform versions, device models, and others. Today we are making Application Statistics even more powerful for publishers, adding new metrics, new ways to analyze your data, and a redesigned UI that’s much easier to use. Read more [...]

February 2, 2012 Recently, there’s been a lot of news coverage of malware in the mobile space. Over on our Mobile blog, Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Android engineering, has posted Android and Security . Read more [...]

January 30, 2012 [This post is by Reto Meier , Android Developer Relations Tech Lead. — Tim Bray] I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved with Android since the 0.9 preview SDK was released to developers back in 2007. A lot has changed since then, but one thing that hasn’t is the rapid pace at which new tools, resources, and information have become available for us Android developers. 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 [...]

January 10, 2012 [This post is by R. Jason Sams , an Android Framework engineer who specializes in graphics, performance tuning, and software architecture. —Tim Bray] For ICS, Renderscript (RS) has been updated with several new features to simplify adding compute acceleration to your application. RS is interesting for compute acceleration when you have large buffers of data on which you need to do significant processing. Read more [...]

January 3, 2012 [This post is by Adam Powell , an Android Framework engineer who cares about style. Read more [...]

December 16, 2011 Today we are announcing Android 4.0.3, an incremental release of the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) platform. The new release includes a variety of optimizations and bug fixes for phones and tablets, as well as a small number of new APIs for developers. The new API level is 15. Read more [...]

December 16, 2011 [This post is by Reto Meier , Android Developer Relations Tech Lead. — Tim Bray] Today I’m thrilled to announce the beta launch of Android Training  — a collection of classes that we hope will help you to build better Android apps. From designing effective navigation , to managing audio playback , to optimizing battery life , these classes are designed to demonstrate best practices for solving common Android development problems. Each class explains the steps required to solve a problem, or implement a feature, with plenty of code snippets and sample code for you to use within your own apps Read more [...]