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Download Count Problems
Something is apparently wrong in the Android Market. We are getting multiple reports of erroneous download counts. The right people are aware of the situation and are working on it.
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Making Sense of Multitouch
[This post is by Adam Powell, one of our more touchy-feely Android engineers. — Tim Bray] The word “multitouch” gets thrown around quite a bit and it’s not always clear what people are referring to. For some it’s about hardware capability, for others it refers to specific gesture support in software. Whatever you decide to [...]
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Application Visibility Issues
Recently we became aware that some Android applications were not visible on the Android Market. While we were internally troubleshooting and qualifying the fix and communicating with our hardware partners, developers were trying hard to get our help through various technical support sites. Regrettably, we fell short of our own standard for customer support by [...]
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Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns
[This post is by Chris Nesladek, Interaction Designer, Richard Fulcher, Interaction Designer, and Virgil Dobjanschi, Software Engineer — Tim Bray] Along with our regular updates of the Android platform, we like to build example applications that showcase best practices for UI features and behavior patterns, to help our 3rd party developers create even richer applications. For example, the [...]
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Stand By…
I’m posting this from Moscone West, the site of Google I/O 2010. Some things that it may be useful to know: The official hash tag is #io2010 The keynotes will be live-blogged all over the place (thus, not here) and also live-streamed on YouTube. If you’re mad because you couldn’t get a ticket, we’re sorry, [...]
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Latitude API Launch
Over at the Google Code Blog, there’s a pretty significant announcement, about the release of APIs for Latitude. the idea, as you might expect, is that the best way to get good location-based applications is to put the tools for building them into everyone’s hands. A glance at the online documentation reveals an essentially-RESTFul API [...]
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The Google TV Story
Vincent Dureau, who’s in charge of Google TV, is a lean, bony-faced man with a strong French accent; not too far off my own age, I’d say. With the announcement imminent, he’s been too busy to write; I’m reporting on my talk with him to give a feel for the thinking behind the project. You’ll [...]
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Android 2.2 and developers goodies.
Today at Google I/O we announced that Android 2.2 is right around the corner. This is our seventh platform release since we launched Android 1.0 in September 2008. We wanted to highlight five areas in particular: Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound [...]
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Android Application Error Reports
[This post, the first in a series about new features in Android 2.2 ("Froyo"), is by Jacek Surazski, a Googler from our Krakow office. — Tim Bray] The upcoming release of Android will include a new bug reporting feature for Market apps. Developers will receive crash and freeze reports from their users. The reports will be available [...]
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Dalvik JIT
[This post is by Dan Bornstein, virtual-machine wrangler. — Tim Bray] As the tech lead for the Dalvik team within the Android project, I spend my time working on the virtual machine (VM) and core class libraries that sit beneath the Android application framework. This layer is mostly invisible to end users, but done right, [...]