Monthly Archives: February 2011

  • Heading for GDC

    [This post is by Chris Pruett, who writes regularly about games here, and is obviously pretty cranked about this conference. — Tim Bray]Android will descend in force upon the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week; w…

    2.27.2011
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  • Animation in Honeycomb

    [This post is by Chet Haase, an Android engineer who specializes in graphics and animation, and who occasionally posts videos and articles on these topics on his CodeDependent blog at graphics-geek.blogspot.com. — Tim Bray]One of …

    2.24.2011
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  • Best Practices for Honeycomb and Tablets

    The first tablets running Android 3.0 (“Honeycomb”) will be hitting the streets on Thursday Feb. 24th, and we’ve just posted the full SDK release. We encourage you to test your applications on the new platform, using a tablet-size AVD.Developers…

    2.23.2011
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  • Final Android 3.0 Platform and Updated SDK Tools

    We are pleased to announce that the full SDK for Android 3.0 is now available to developers. The APIs are final, and you can now develop apps targeting this new platform and publish them to Android Market. The new API level is 11.For an overview of th…

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    2.22.2011
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  • Introducing Renderscript

    [This post is by R. Jason Sams, an Android engineer who specializes in graphics, performance tuning, and software architecture. —Tim Bray]Renderscript is a key new Honeycomb feature which we haven’t yet discussed in much detail. I will address th…

    2.9.2011
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  • Android 2.3.3 Platform, New NFC Capabilities

    Several weeks ago we released Android 2.3, which introduced several new forms of communication for developers and users. One of those, Near Field Communications (NFC), let developers get started creating a new class of contactless, proximity-based appl…

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  • The Android 3.0 Fragments API

    [This post is by Dianne Hackborn, a Software Engineer who sits very near the exact center of everything Android. — Tim Bray]An important goal for Android 3.0 is to make it easier for developers to write applications that can scale …

    2.3.2011
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  • New Merchandising and Billing Features on Android Market

    [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
    Following on last week’s announcement of the Android 3.0 Preview SDK, I’d like to share some more good news with you about three important new features on Android Market.And…

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    2.2.2011
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  • Android Developers Blog 2011-02-02 20:00:00

    [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
    Following on last week’s announcement of the Android 3.0 Preview SDK, I’d like to share some more good news with you about three important new features on Android Market.And…

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