ADC 2 Round 1 Scoring Complete

The response to round one of the Android Developer Challenge 2 has been phenomenal! We originally expected that it would take two weeks to ...

Gestures on Android 1.6

Touch screens are a great way to interact with applications on mobile devices. With a touch screen, users can easily tap, drag, fling, or sl...

Now available: Android 1.6 NDK

Today Android 1.6 NDK, release 1 is available for download from the Android developer site. To recap, the NDK is a companion to the SDK tha...

Zipalign: an easy optimization

The Android 1.6 SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Doing this enables Android to intera...

A Note on Google Apps for Android

Lately we've been busy bees in Mountain View, as you can see from the recent release of Android 1.6 to the open-source tree, not to ment...

ADC 2 Judging Has Begun!

I am happy to announce that Android Developer Challenge 2 's first round of judging has begun! As a reminder, user voting determines whi...

An introduction to Text-To-Speech in Android

We've introduced a new feature in version 1.6 of the Android platform: Text-To-Speech (TTS). Also known as "speech synthesis",...