Live wallpapers

With the introduction of live wallpapers in Android 2.1 , users can now enjoy richer, animated, interactive backgrounds on their home screen...

Optimize your layouts

Writing user interface layouts for Android applications is easy, but it can sometimes be difficult to optimize them. Most often, heavy modif...

UI framework changes in Android 1.6

Android 1.6 introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes in the UI framework. Today, I'd like to highlight three two improvements in ...

Support for additional screen resolutions and densities in Android

You may have heard that one of the key changes introduced in Android 1.6 is support for new screen sizes. This is one of the things that h...

Activities and Tasks Design Guidelines

For our third post in the series of Android UI, we're releasing Activity and Task Design Guidelines . This section of our guidelines aim...

Painless threading

Whenever you first start an Android application, a thread called "main" is automatically created. The main thread, also called the...

Drawable mutations

Android's drawables are extremely useful to easily build applications. A Drawable is a pluggable drawing container that is usually asso...