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2016 136

December 2016

  1. Introducing the ExifInterface Support Library
  2. Get the guide to finding success in new markets on Google Play
  3. Start building Actions on Google
  4. Best practices to improve app engagement
  5. Games authentication adopting Google Sign-In API
  6. Four tips for startup success from a Silicon Valley VC
  7. Get a glimpse of Wear 2.0’s upcoming standalone apps
  8. Tips to be better found and discovered on Google Play
  9. Android Wear 2.0 for China - Developer Preview
  10. Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 4: Authentication, In-App Billing, and more
  11. Announcing updates to Google’s Internet of Things platform: Android Things and Weave
  12. Five steps to achieve sustainable growth and boost your app's long term success
  13. How augmented reality helps you buy furniture and capture Pokémon
  14. Watch sessions from the Playtime 2016 events to learn how to succeed on Android & Google Play
  15. Saving Data: Reducing the size of App Updates by 65%
  16. Welcoming Android 7.1.1 Nougat
  17. Indie game developers in Latin America sustain growth after launch on Google Play

November 2016

  1. Updated Udacity Android course prepares students for the Associate Android Developer Certification
  2. Learn tips from Memrise to increase in-app conversions with pricing experiments
  3. Keeping it real: Improving reviews and ratings in Google Play
  4. Android Developer Story: Le Monde increases subscriptions with Google Play Billing
  5. Your next growth market: Realizing the potential of MENA
  6. Final update to Android 7.1 Developer Preview
  7. Calling European game developers, enter the Indie Games Contest by December 31
  8. Google Play services and Firebase for Android will support API level 14 at minimum
  9. Pixel Security: Better, Faster, Stronger
  10. Understanding APK packaging in Android Studio 2.2
  11. Adding TV Channels to Your App with the TIF Companion Library
  12. CMake and ndk-build support in Android Studio 2.2
  13. Test on Android 7.1 Developer Preview in Firebase Test Lab
  14. Welcome to Playtime!
  15. Support Ended for Eclipse Android Developer Tools
  16. Look out for our bi-annual Google Play Developer Sentiment Survey, coming soon

October 2016

  1. Keeping the Play Store trusted: fighting fraud and spam installs
  2. Readfeed graduates from Google Play’s Early Access beta program & offers some learnings
  3. 3 Exercises To Get Your Fitness App In Shape
  4. Android Developer Stories: drupe and Noom expand globally by localising their apps on Google Play
  5. Now available: Android 7.1 Developer Preview
  6. Tips to help you stay on the right side of Google Play policy
  7. Android Developer Story: PicMix reaches global audience on Google Play
  8. Coming soon: Android 7.1 Developer Preview
  9. Android Developer Story: Papumba grows revenue globally by localising its family titles on Google Play

September 2016

  1. Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 3: Play Store and More
  2. Announcing the winners of the Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco; Indie Games Contest coming soon to Europe
  3. Extending Web Technology with Android
  4. Android Studio 2.2
  5. Keeping Android safe: Security enhancements in Nougat
  6. The Power Of “Early Access”

August 2016

  1. Android Developer Story: Hutch improves player engagement with A/B testing on Google Play
  2. Announcing Open Registration and Exhibitors for Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco, Sept. 24
  3. Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
  4. New features for reviews and experiments in Google Play Developer Console app
  5. Android Developer Story: Hole19 improves user retention with Android Wear
  6. Expand Your Global Reach on Google Play With New Language and Country Analytics
  7. 5 Tips to help you improve game-as-a-service monetization

July 2016

  1. Announcing Android add-ons for Docs and Sheets
  2. Protecting Android with more Linux kernel defenses
  3. Android Developer Story: Culture Alley reaches millions of English learners on Google Play
  4. Introducing new app categories -- From Art to Autos to Dating -- to help users better find your apps
  5. Improvements for smaller app downloads on Google Play
  6. Connecting your App to a Wi-Fi Device
  7. Android Developer Story: StoryToys finds success in the ‘Family’ section on Google Play
  8. Strictly Enforced Verified Boot with Error Correction
  9. Final Developer Preview before Android 7.0 Nougat begins rolling out
  10. Announcing the Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco, Sept. 24
  11. Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2
  12. Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat

June 2016

  1. Building for Billions
  2. New video tips to help news publishers find success on Google Play
  3. Android changes for NDK developers
  4. Android Mobile Vision restores operation and adds Text API
  5. Create Intelligent, Context-Aware Apps with the Google Awareness APIs
  6. Introducing the Android Basics Nanodegree
  7. Improving Stability with Private C/C++ Symbol Restrictions in Android N
  8. Grow your business on Google Play with help from the new Playbook for Developers app
  9. One Year of Android Security Rewards
  10. Android N APIs are now final, get your apps ready for Android N!
  11. Android Developer Story: Sendy uses Google Play features to build for the next billion users
  12. Security "Crypto" provider deprecated in Android N
  13. Notifications in Android N
  14. Android Developer Story: Vietnamese games developer Divmob finds more users with localized pricing on Google Play

May 2016

  1. And the winners of the Google Play Awards are…
  2. Android Studio 2.2 Preview - New UI Designer & Constraint Layout
  3. Bring Your Android App to Chromebooks
  4. Enhancing Android Pay APIs
  5. Google Play services 9.0 updates
  6. What’s new in Google Play at I/O 2016: better betas, the pre-launch report, benchmarks, a new Play Console app, and more
  7. What’s new in Android: the N-Release, Virtual Reality, Android Studio 2.2 and more
  8. Google I/O 2016: Develop, Grow & Earn
  9. Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview
  10. Introducing Android Instant Apps
  11. Improving the Security and User Experience of your Google Sign In Implementation
  12. Building better mobile apps for work
  13. Designing for Multi-Window
  14. Introducing the second class of Launchpad Accelerator
  15. Get the guide to News app success on Google Play and see how Nabd engages readers with Material Design
  16. Hardening the media stack

April 2016

  1. Enhancing App Security on Google Play
  2. Developing for Direct Boot
  3. Android Studio 2.1 supports Android N Developer Preview
  4. Building TV Channels
  5. Protecting against unintentional regressions to cleartext traffic in your Android apps
  6. An Outsourcing Playbook for Android development
  7. The Google Play Awards coming to Google I/O
  8. Build beautifully for Android Wear’s Round Screen using API 23’s -round identifier
  9. Deprecation of BIND_LISTENER with Android Wear APIs
  10. Optimize, Develop, and Debug with Vulkan Developer Tools
  11. Android N Developer Preview 2, out today!
  12. Android Studio 2.0
  13. Android Developer Story: Video editing app WeVideo increases user engagement with material design
  14. A new method to measure touch and audio latency
  15. Get your apps and games ready for space with Google Play (April Fools')

March 2016

  1. Registering OAuth clients for Google Sign-In
  2. Announcing the 2016 Android Experiments I/O Challenge!
  3. Grow your games business on Google Play: Game parameters management, video recording, streaming ads, and more
  4. Game developers, get ready for our Developer Day at GDC 2016
  5. First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs & Tools
  6. Find success on Google Play: What app developers can learn from games
  7. Explore the new Google Play Developer Policy Center

February 2016

  1. New tools for ratings & reviews on Google Play to engage and understand your users
  2. Google’s Launchpad Accelerator successfully takes off. Apply to join the June class.
  3. Android Support Library 23.2
  4. Using Credentials between your Server and Google Services
  5. Get the guide to family app success on Google Play and see how BabyFirst increased installs by 50%
  6. Android Studio 2.0 - Beta
  7. Project Tango workshops help bring indoor location apps to life
  8. Marshmallow and User Data

January 2016

  1. Android Developer Story: Travel app Wego, increases monthly user retention by 300% with material design
  2. How Fabulous and Yummly grew with App Invites
  3. New features to better understand player behavior with Player Analytics
  4. Play Games Permissions are changing in 2016
  5. Android Developer Story: Music app developer DJIT builds higher quality experiences and successful businesses on Android
  6. Create promo codes for your apps and in-app products in the Google Play Developer Console
  7. Using Google Sign-In with your server
  8. Spatial audio comes to the Cardboard SDK
  9. Get your app featured on the first smartphone with Project Tango from Lenovo

2015 129

December 2015

  1. Get ready for Javascript “Promises” with Google and Udacity
  2. Google Play Services 8.4 SDK is available
  3. The Learning Continues! New lessons for Advanced Android course
  4. Invitation: Your Ultimate 31-Course Holiday Banquet
  5. Leveraging product flavors in Android Studio for hermetic testing
  6. One tap sign-up and automatic sign-in without password entry using Smart Lock
  7. Android Studio 2.0 Preview: Android Emulator
  8. Android Developer Story: SGN game ‘Cookie Jam’ increases user conversions with Store Listing Experiments
  9. API Updates for Sign-In with Google

November 2015

  1. Android Studio 2.0 Preview
  2. Android Studio 1.5
  3. Android Developer Story: Gifted Mom reaches more mothers across Africa with Android
  4. Hungering for Game Utilities?
  5. API 23 SDK now available for Android Wear
  6. An updated app guide and new video tips to help you find success on Google Play
  7. Minimum purchase price for apps and in-app products reduced on Google Play
  8. Improvements to Sign-In with Google Play services 8.3
  9. Developer tips for success with Player Analytics and Google Play games services
  10. Testing your app for Android for Work
  11. What’s new in Google Play services 8.3
  12. Android Developer Story: Peak Games generates majority of global revenue for popular game ‘Spades’ on Android
  13. Announcing the Project Tango App Contest Winners & Special Developer Kit Promotion

October 2015

  1. New Course on Developing Android Apps for Google Cast and Android TV
  2. Learn top tips from Kongregate to achieve success with Store Listing Experiments
  3. Introducing a New Course on Developing Android Apps for Auto
  4. New in Android Samples: Authenticating to remote servers using the Fingerprint API
  5. Virtual currency: Sources and Sinks
  6. Google Developers teams up with General Assembly to launch Android Development Immersive training course
  7. Get your bibs ready for Big Android BBQ!
  8. New Courses -- Developing Watch Apps for Android Wear
  9. Android Developer Story: RogerVoice takes advantage of beta testing to launch its app on Android first
  10. Introducing the Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree
  11. Game Performance: Vertex Array Objects
  12. Android Support Library 23.1
  13. Google Play Developer Console introduces Universal App Campaigns and User Acquisition performance reporting
  14. Bringing Google Cardboard and VR to the world
  15. Watch Google Play’s Playtime event: How to find success for your app or game business
  16. Keep users’ content safe with Google Drive
  17. In-app translations in Android Marshmallow
  18. Inside Android’s Easter Egg Tradition
  19. How Google Cloud Messaging handles Doze in Android 6.0 Marshmallow

September 2015

  1. Android Studio 1.4
  2. Android 6.0 Marshmallow coming to devices soon
  3. Support for 100MB APKs on Google Play
  4. Android Development Patterns: A Series on Best Practices for Android Development
  5. Always-on Android Wear apps with the Google Maps API
  6. Google Play services 8.1 and Android 6.0 Permissions
  7. Google Play services 8.1: Get ready for Marshmallow!
  8. Introducing Android Developer Nanodegree in India with Udacity—1000 scholarships available
  9. Telltale Games share their tips for success on Android TV
  10. New Android Marshmallow sample apps
  11. Android Developer Story: Domain increases installs by 44% with Material Design and Google Play services
  12. New permissions requirements for Android TV
  13. Play Games Loot Drop for Developers
  14. New Course: Android Design for Developers
  15. Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web

August 2015

  1. Games developer, Dots, share their Do’s and Don’ts for improving your visibility on Google Play
  2. Announcing the Android Auto Desktop Head Unit
  3. Building better apps with Runtime Permissions
  4. Get the Do’s and Don’ts for Notifications from Game Developer Seriously
  5. Hungry for some Big Android BBQ?
  6. Interactive watch faces with the latest Android Wear update
  7. Develop a sweet spot for Marshmallow: Official Android 6.0 SDK & Final M Preview
  8. Barcode Detection in Google Play services
  9. Face Detection in Google Play services
  10. Google Play services 7.8 - Let’s see what’s Nearby!
  11. Android Developer Story: Zabob Studio and Buff Studio reach global users with Google Play
  12. Android Experiments: A celebration of creativity and code
  13. Low-overhead rendering with Vulkan

July 2015

  1. Get your hands on Android Studio 1.3
  2. Iterate faster on Google Play with improved beta testing
  3. Auto Backup for Apps made simple
  4. [New eBook] Download The No-nonsense Guide to App Growth
  5. Lighting the way with BLE beacons
  6. Connect With the World Around You Through Nearby APIs
  7. M Developer Preview Gets Its First Update
  8. The App Developer Business Kit: Now available in 10 languages
  9. Game Performance: Data-Oriented Programming

June 2015

  1. An update on Eclipse Android Developer Tools
  2. Android Developer Story: Shifty Jelly drives double-digit growth with material design and expansion to the car and wearables
  3. Fitness Apps on Android Wear
  4. Growing Android TV engagement with search and recommendations
  5. More Material Design with Topeka for Android
  6. Updates to Unity, C++, and iOS tools for Play game services
  7. Android Developer Story: Trello Increases engagement with material design
  8. Introducing new Android training programs with Udacity

May 2015

  1. Android Design Support Library
  2. Announcing the Material Design Showcase and Awards
  3. A Closer Look at Google Play services 7.5
  4. Empowering successful global businesses on Google Play
  5. Android M Developer Preview & Tools
  6. Game Performance: Geometry Instancing
  7. Always-on and Wi-Fi with the latest Android Wear update
  8. Android Developer Story: Wooga’s fast iterations on Android and Google Play
  9. Exercise or Games? Why Not Both!
  10. Android Developer Story: The Hunt -- Increased engagement with material design and Google Play

April 2015

  1. Integrate Play data into your workflow with data exports
  2. There's a lot to explore with Google Play services 7.3
  3. New Android Code Samples
  4. Game Performance: Explicit Uniform Locations
  5. Android Support Library 22.1
  6. Android Developer Story: Jelly Button Games grows globally through data driven development
  7. Drive app installs through App Indexing
  8. Helping developers connect with families on Google Play
  9. New course: Take Android app performance to the next level
  10. Enable your messaging app for Android Auto

March 2015

  1. Power Great Gaming with New Analytics from Play Games
  2. Game Performance: Layout Qualifiers
  3. Developing audio apps for Android Auto
  4. Hello Places API for Android and iOS!
  5. Take your apps on the road with Android Auto
  6. Android Developer Story: Outfit7 — Building an entertainment company with Google
  7. Creating Better User Experiences on Google Play
  8. Haystack TV Doubles Engagement with Android TV
  9. A New Reference App for Multi-device Applications
  10. Android 5.1 Lollipop SDK
  11. Google Play services 7.0 - Places Everyone!
  12. New Tools to Supercharge Your Games on Google Play

February 2015

  1. A New Way to Promote Your App on Google Play
  2. Bringing apps to the workplace with Google Play for Work
  3. We'll see you at GDC 2015!
  4. Android Developer Story: GinLemon - Breaking through with Google Play
  5. Building for Android Wear: Depth and Flexibility
  6. Beta Channel for the Android WebView
  7. The Guardian — Understanding and engaging mobile users
  8. Trulia sees 30% more engagement using notifications and further innovates with Android Wear

January 2015

  1. Android Wear & QR Code: Putting Users through the Fast Track
  2. How Google Analytics helps you make better decisions for your apps
  3. Efficient Game Textures with Hardware Compression

2014 73

December 2014

  1. Build Mobile App Services with Google Cloud Tools for Android Studio v1.0
  2. Google Play game services ends year with a bang!
  3. Making a performant watch face
  4. New Code Samples for Lollipop
  5. Hello World, meet our new experimental toolchain, Jack and Jill
  6. Watch Face API Now Available for Android Wear
  7. Google Play services and DEX method limits
  8. Over goes big and goes home with Android
  9. Android Studio 1.0

November 2014

  1. Sky Force 2014 Reimagined for Android TV
  2. musiXmatch drives user engagement through innovation
  3. Chinese Developers Can Now Offer Paid Applications to Google Play Users in More Than 130 countries
  4. Coding Android TV games is easy as pie
  5. Begin developing with Android Auto
  6. Keeping Your Saved Games in the Cloud
  7. Google Play services 6.5
  8. EyeEm Improves User Engagement through Android Design
  9. Utilities for C/C++ Android Developers: fplutil 1.0
  10. Improved Game Testing with Google Play Games Management API
  11. Introducing a New Guide, “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play”
  12. Going Global: Space Ape Games Finds Success in Japan
  13. Your Chance to be on TV!

October 2014

  1. The fastest route between voice search and your app
  2. Tips for integrating with Google Accounts on Android
  3. Material Design on Android Checklist
  4. Implementing Material Design in Your Android app
  5. Getting Your Apps Ready for Nexus 6 and Nexus 9
  6. GPS on Android Wear Devices
  7. AppCompat v21 — Material Design for Pre-Lollipop Devices!
  8. What's New in Android 5.0 Lollipop
  9. Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images
  10. Updated Cross-Platform Tools in Google Play Game Services
  11. Tips for Error Handling with Android Wear APIs

September 2014

  1. Allthecooks on Android Wear
  2. Messaging on Android Wear
  3. Google Play Services 6.1
  4. Android One: Bringing Your Apps to the Next Five Billion
  5. Conference Data Sync and GCM in the Google I/O App
  6. The Beautiful Design Summer 2014 Collection on Google Play

August 2014

  1. Powerful New Messaging Features with GCM
  2. Material design in the 2014 Google I/O app

July 2014

  1. Learn How UX Design can Make Your App More Successful
  2. Google I/O 2014 App Source Code Now Available
  3. Grow with Google Play: Scaled Publishing and New App Insights
  4. KNOX Contribution to Android: Accelerating Android in the Workplace
  5. Porting Your Android Wear Developer Preview Code to the Latest Support Library
  6. Learn to Think Like an Android Developer
  7. New Cross-Platform Tools for Game Developers
  8. Update on Android Wear Paid Apps
  9. Google Play Services 5.0

June 2014

  1. Android L Developer Preview and Android Studio Beta
  2. Google I/O: Design, Develop, Distribute
  3. New in Android: L Developer Preview and Google Play Services 5.0
  4. Games at Google I/O '14: Everyone's Playing Games
  5. Building Successful Global App Businesses
  6. Cast Away with Android TV and Google Cast
  7. New ways to connect your app to the Cloud using Android Studio and Google Cloud Platform
  8. FlatBuffers: A Memory-Efficient Serialization Library
  9. An Android Wear Design Story
  10. New Demographic Stats in Google Play Games Services

May 2014

  1. Another Easy Sample For Notification Pages on Android Wear
  2. Stacking Notifications For Android Wear Is This Easy
  3. Helping You Go Global with More Seamless Google Play Payments
  4. Google Play services 4.4

March 2014

  1. Android Wear Developer Preview Now Available
  2. Google Developer Day at GDC
  3. Google Play services 4.3
  4. Unlocking the Power of Google for Your Games, at GDC

February 2014

  1. Join us at Game Developers Conference 2014!
  2. New Client API Model in Google Play Services
  3. Google Play Services 4.2

January 2014

  1. Process Stats: Understanding How Your App Uses RAM
  2. Google Play Services 4.1

2013 48

December 2013

  1. The Beautiful Design Winter 2013 Collection on Google Play
  2. Changes to the SecretKeyFactory API in Android 4.4
  3. New Tools to Take Your Games to the Next Level

November 2013

  1. Bring Your Apps into the Classroom, with Google Play for Education
  2. Google Play App Translation Service

October 2013

  1. Android 4.4 KitKat and Updated Developer Tools
  2. Google Play Services 4.0
  3. Making your App Content more Accessible from Google
  4. Getting Your SMS Apps Ready for KitKat
  5. Tablet changes in Google Play
  6. New Developer Features in Google Play Games
  7. Improved App Insight by Linking Google Analytics with Google Play

September 2013

  1. Using the Hardware Scaler for Performance and Efficiency
  2. RenderScript in the Android Support Library

August 2013

  1. RenderScript Intrinsics
  2. Respecting Audio Focus
  3. Google Play Services 3.2
  4. Some SecureRandom Thoughts
  5. ActionBarCompat and I/O 2013 App Source

July 2013

  1. Unlocking More Users, with Tablets and Games
  2. Android 4.3 and Updated Developer Tools
  3. Making Beautiful Android App Icons
  4. Mid Year 2013 Android Developer Survey
  5. The Beautiful Design Summer 2013 Collection on Google Play

June 2013

  1. Adding a Backend to Your App In Android Studio
  2. Offer Your Educational Apps On Google Play for Education
  3. Google Play Developer 8-Step Checkup
  4. Bootstrap Your App's Cloud Services with Mobile Backend Starter

May 2013

  1. Watch Android @ Google I/O 2013
  2. Handling Phone Call Requests the Right Way for Users
  3. Transitioning to Google Wallet Merchant Center
  4. New Ways to Optimize Your Business in Google Play
  5. Social Gaming, Location, and More in Google Play Services
  6. Android Studio: An IDE built for Android
  7. Android at Google I/O 2013: Keynote Wrapup
  8. All Google Play Developers Can Now Reply to User Reviews
  9. Android at Google I/O 2013

April 2013

  1. Tablet Optimization Tips in the Google Play Developer Console
  2. Update on Tablet App Guidelines and Screenshots
  3. New Look, New Purchase Flow in Google Play

March 2013

  1. Now is the time to switch to the new Google Play Developer Console
  2. Native RTL support in Android 4.2

February 2013

  1. Google+ Sign-In Now Part of Google Play Services
  2. Using Cryptography to Store Credentials Safely
  3. Security Enhancements in Jelly Bean

January 2013

  1. Android Developer Story: Smule
  2. Evolution of Renderscript Performance
  3. Verifying Back-End Calls from Android Apps

2012 41

December 2012

  1. Daydream: Interactive Screen Savers
  2. Localize Your Promotional Graphics on Google Play
  3. The 2012 Android Developer Survey
  4. In-App Billing Version 3
  5. New Google Maps Android API now part of Google Play services

November 2012

  1. Designing for Tablets? We’re Here to Help!
  2. Android SDK Tools, Revision 21
  3. Introducing Android 4.2, A New and Improved Jelly Bean

October 2012

  1. Google Play Seller Support in India
  2. New Google Play Developer Console Available to Everyone
  3. Building Quality Tablet Apps

September 2012

  1. Google Play services and OAuth Identity Tools

August 2012

  1. Creating Your Own Spelling Checker Service

July 2012

  1. Getting Your App Ready for Jelly Bean and Nexus 7
  2. Google I/O and Beyond

June 2012

  1. Android SDK Tools, Revision 20
  2. Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more
  3. Replying to User Reviews on Google Play
  4. Helping you build beautiful, powerful, successful apps
  5. Using DialogFragments

May 2012

  1. In-app Subscriptions in Google Play

April 2012

  1. Android C2DM — Client Login key expiration
  2. New Seller Countries in Google Play
  3. Accessibility: Are You Serving All Your Users?
  4. A Faster Emulator with Better Hardware Support
  5. The Gmail Public Labels API

March 2012

  1. Making the Android Developer Console work for your whole team
  2. New Sales Reports on Google Play
  3. Updated SDK Tools and ADT revision 17
  4. Unifying Key Store Access in ICS
  5. Android Apps Break the 50MB Barrier

February 2012

  1. Android Design V2: Now with stencils
  2. New App Stats for Publishers on Android Market
  3. Share With Intents
  4. Android Security Update
  5. New Social APIs in Android ICS

January 2012

  1. Say Goodbye to the Menu Button
  2. Southern-hemisphere Developer Labs
  3. Introducing the Android Design site
  4. Levels in Renderscript
  5. Holo Everywhere

2011 67

December 2011

  1. Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText()
  2. Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools
  3. Introducing Android Training
  4. More Android Games that Play Nice
  5. Add Voice Typing To Your IME
  6. A Closer Look at 10 Billion Downloads
  7. 10 Billion Android Market Downloads and Counting

November 2011

  1. Games Coming to Android Market in Korea
  2. Making Android Games that Play Nice
  3. Updated NDK for Android 4.0
  4. New Layout Widgets: Space and GridLayout
  5. More Android Developer Labs in Asia
  6. JNI Local Reference Changes in ICS
  7. Android 4.0 Graphics and Animations

October 2011

  1. Introducing Android WebDriver
  2. Changes to Library Projects in Android SDK Tools, r14
  3. New Public APIs in ICS
  4. Android 4.0 Platform and Updated SDK Tools
  5. Google Play Featured-Image Guidelines

September 2011

  1. Android’s HTTP Clients
  2. Euro Android Developer Labs
  3. Preparing for Handsets
  4. Thinking Like a Web Designer
  5. More Carrier Billing Options on Android Market

August 2011

  1. Horizontal View Swiping with ViewPager, Updated
  2. Preview of Google TV Add-on for the Android SDK
  3. Android Developer Labs 2011

July 2011

  1. Custom Class Loading in Dalvik
  2. New Tools For Managing Screen Sizes
  3. Multiple APK Support in Android Market
  4. Debugging Android JNI with CheckJNI
  5. Android 3.2 Platform and Updated SDK tools
  6. A New Android Market for Phones
  7. New Mode for Apps on Large Screens

June 2011

  1. Things That Cannot Change
  2. New Editing Features in Eclipse plug-in for Android

May 2011

  1. Introducing ViewPropertyAnimator
  2. ADK at Maker Faire
  3. A Bright Idea: Android Open Accessories
  4. Android 3.1 Platform, New SDK tools
  5. Commerce Tracking with Google Analytics for Android

April 2011

  1. Merchant Sales Reports on Android Market
  2. Customizing the Action Bar
  3. Android Developer Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa!
  4. New Carrier Billing Options on Android Market
  5. I think I’m having a Gene Amdahl moment (http://goo.gl/7v4kf)
  6. The IO Ticket Contest

March 2011

  1. Identifying App Installations
  2. In-app Billing Launched on Android Market
  3. In-App Billing on Android Market: Ready for Testing
  4. Memory Analysis for Android Applications
  5. Application Stats on Android Market
  6. Android 3.0 Hardware Acceleration
  7. Renderscript Part 2
  8. Fragments For All

February 2011

  1. Heading for GDC
  2. Animation in Honeycomb
  3. Best Practices for Honeycomb and Tablets
  4. Final Android 3.0 Platform and Updated SDK Tools
  5. Introducing Renderscript
  6. Android 2.3.3 Platform, New NFC Capabilities
  7. The Android 3.0 Fragments API
  8. New Merchandising and Billing Features on Android Market

January 2011

  1. Android 3.0 Platform Preview and Updated SDK Tools
  2. Processing Ordered Broadcasts
  3. Have Androids. Will Travel.
  4. Gingerbread NDK Awesomeness

2010 72

December 2010

  1. More Payment Options in Android Market
  2. It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness
  3. Android Browser User-Agent Issues
  4. Analytics for Android Apps
  5. StrictMode API for Built-In Performance Monitoring
  6. Android Market Client Update
  7. Saving Data Safely
  8. Android 2.3 Platform and Updated SDK Tools

November 2010

  1. Content Rating for Android Market
  2. Market Housekeeping Alert
  3. Android Market Action

October 2010

  1. Improving App Quality
  2. Traceview War Story
  3. The Five Steps to Future Hardware Happiness
  4. Android Market New Country Roll-out Details

September 2010

  1. More Countries, More sellers, More buyers
  2. Reflections on G-Kenya
  3. Proguard, Android, and the Licensing Server
  4. Supporting the new music Voice Action
  5. Screen Geometry Fun
  6. One Screen Turn Deserves Another
  7. Securing Android LVL Applications

August 2010

  1. Licensing Server News
  2. A Little Too Popular
  3. Two Simple Questions
  4. Powering Chrome to Phone with Android Cloud to Device Messaging
  5. Nexus One Developer Phone
  6. Best Practices for Handling Android User Data

July 2010

  1. Licensing Service Technology Highlights
  2. Licensing Service For Android Applications
  3. Adjustment to Market Legals
  4. Multithreading For Performance
  5. Market Statistics Adjustments
  6. Android Market Welcomes Korea!
  7. How to have your (Cup)cake and eat it too
  8. Apps on SD Card: The Details
  9. Android 2.2 SDK refresh
  10. Android Love at OSCON

June 2010

  1. Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature
  2. Android Market Problem
  3. The Froyo Code Drop
  4. Hands-on at OSCON
  5. Future-Proofing Your App
  6. Game Development for Android: A Quick Primer
  7. Download Count Problems
  8. Blogging Round the World
  9. Making Sense of Multitouch
  10. Application Visibility Issues
  11. Allowing applications to play nice(r) with each other: Handling remote control buttons

May 2010

  1. On Android Compatibility
  2. Android Cloud To Device Messaging
  3. Dalvik JIT
  4. Android Application Error Reports
  5. Android 2.2 and developers goodies.
  6. The Google TV Story
  7. Latitude API Launch
  8. Stand By...
  9. Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns
  10. Be Careful With Content Providers
  11. Taking the Android Show on the Road

April 2010

  1. Multitasking the Android Way
  2. More Blogginess

March 2010

  1. Android NDK r3
  2. Speech Input API for Android
  3. Android at the Game Developer's Conference

February 2010

  1. Service API changes starting with Android 2.0
  2. Live wallpapers

January 2010

  1. Android at Mobile World Congress
  2. Android Developer Labs World Tour
  3. Android at the 2010 Game Developers Conference
  4. IRC office hours update
  5. Android 2.1 SDK

2009 63

December 2009

  1. Hello, Stack Overflow!
  2. Back and other hard keys: three stories
  3. New resources and sample code on developer.android.com
  4. Knowing is half the battle
  5. Come to Our Virtual Office Hours
  6. Optimize your layouts
  7. Android SDK Updates

November 2009

  1. Announcing the Winners of ADC 2
  2. ADC 2 Public Judging is now closed
  3. Integrating Application with Intents
  4. ADC 2 Round 2 Voting Open
  5. Bring Your Lab Coats

October 2009

  1. Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK!
  2. UI framework changes in Android 1.6
  3. Support for additional screen resolutions and densities in Android
  4. ADC 2 Round 1 Scoring Complete
  5. Gestures on Android 1.6

September 2009

  1. Now available: Android 1.6 NDK
  2. Zipalign: an easy optimization
  3. A Note on Google Apps for Android
  4. ADC 2 Judging Has Begun!
  5. An introduction to Text-To-Speech in Android
  6. Introducing Quick Search Box for Android
  7. Android 1.6 SDK is here
  8. Some News from Android Market

August 2009

  1. ADC2 Submissions Closing Monday!
  2. Android Developer Challenge 2 open for submissions

July 2009

  1. ADC 2 Updates

June 2009

  1. Introducing Android 1.5 NDK, Release 1
  2. Activities and Tasks Design Guidelines

May 2009

  1. Calling all developers for Android Developer Challenge 2!
  2. Android Icon Guidelines
  3. Lightning talks at Google I/O
  4. Painless threading
  5. Drawable mutations
  6. Widget Design Guidelines

April 2009

  1. Backward compatibility for Android applications
  2. Android 1.5 at Google I/O
  3. Android 1.5 is here!
  4. Introducing GLSurfaceView
  5. Live folders
  6. Future-Proofing Your Apps
  7. Creating an Input Method
  8. On-screen Input Methods
  9. Introducing home screen widgets and the AppWidget framework
  10. UI framework changes in Android 1.5
  11. Getting ready for Android 1.5

March 2009

  1. Developer News
  2. Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize with stubs
  3. Software Update Available for the Android Developer Phone
  4. Window Backgrounds & UI Speed
  5. Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize by merging

February 2009

  1. Android Layout Tricks #2: Reusing layouts
  2. Android Layout Tricks #1
  3. Android Market update: priced applications for US users
  4. Faster screen orientation change
  5. Android Market update: support for priced applications
  6. Track memory allocations
  7. Apps that work together
  8. Android 1.1 SDK, release 1 Now Available

January 2009

  1. Avoiding memory leaks
  2. Why is my list black? An Android optimization
  3. Can I use this Intent?

2008 40

December 2008

  1. New Resources for Developers
  2. Touch Mode
  3. Behind the apps: Amazed

November 2008

  1. Behind the apps: Amazon and imeem

October 2008

  1. The stories behind the apps
  2. Android Market: Now available for users
  3. New Android Maps API Terms of Service and Key Enforcement
  4. Android is now Open Source

September 2008

  1. Announcing the Android 1.0 SDK, release 1
  2. Panoramio
  3. Using WebViews
  4. Divide and Conquer
  5. Three new Samples: Triangle, SpriteText and Downloader
  6. Android Photostream

August 2008

  1. Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I
  2. Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system
  3. Some information on APIs removed in the Android 0.9 SDK beta
  4. Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK

June 2008

  1. Android at Google I/O and Developer Days

May 2008

  1. AndroidGlobalTime
  2. Android Developer Challenge Judges and Top 50 Details
  3. A Challenge in More than One Way
  4. The Top 50 Applications
  5. Android Developer Challenge: Round I Results are In

April 2008

  1. Android Developers Have Risen to the Challenge
  2. Android Developer Challenge Judges
  3. Android University
  4. Android's First 5 Months

March 2008

  1. WikiNotes for Android: Routing Intents
  2. Linkify your Text!
  3. Android Developer Challenge Deadline Approaching Quickly
  4. Announcing: Apps for Android
  5. Android SDK update: m5-rc15 released

February 2008

  1. Android SDK m5-rc14 now available
  2. Android in Harvard Square

January 2008

  1. Deadline Extension for the Android Developer Challenge
  2. Intercontinental Androids
  3. You can't rush perfection, but now you can file bugs against it
  4. Who wants cocoa & s'mores?
  5. Rising to the Challenge

2007 8

December 2007

  1. On the Road with Android
  2. Life can be tough; here are a few SDK improvements to make it a little easier
  3. Google Developer Podcast: Android

November 2007

  1. A Maze of Twisty Little Passages
  2. A Stitch in Time
  3. Android: the first week
  4. Just show me the code
  5. This is the droid you're looking for

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