Monthly Archives: April 2011
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Merchant Sales Reports on Android Market
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]As part of our ongoing efforts to provide better tools to help you manage your business, we are introducing merchant sales reporting on Android Market. Developers now have conve…
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Customizing the Action Bar
[This post is by Nick Butcher, an Android engineer who notices small imperfections, and they annoy him. — Tim Bray]Since the introduction of the Action Bar design pattern, many applications have adopted it as a way to provide easy …
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Android Developer Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa!
[This post is by Bridgette Sexton, an innovation advocate for the African tech community. — Tim Bray]En Français.In the past year alone, we have met with over 10,000 developers and techies across Sub Saharan Africa. We are contin…
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New Carrier Billing Options on Android Market
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]Since last year, we’ve been working to bring the convenience of Direct Carrier Billing to more Android Market users on more carrier networks. Building on the launches to T-Mob…
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I think I’m having a Gene Amdahl moment (http://goo.gl/7v4kf)
[This post is by Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering —Tim Bray]Recently, there’s been a lot of misinformation in the press about Android and Google’s role in supporting the ecosystem. I’m writing in the spirit of transparency and in an attem…
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The IO Ticket Contest
When Google I/O sold out so fast, were kicking around ideas for how to get some of our ticket reserve into the hands of our favorite people: Dedicated developers. Someone floated the idea of a contest, so we had to pull one together double-quick. You…