Monthly Archives: November 2011
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Games Coming to Android Market in Korea
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
In the 24 months since the first Android device became available locally, Korea has quickly become one of the top countries in Android device activations. In parallel, we’ve…
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Making Android Games that Play Nice
[This post is by Ian Ni-Lewis, a Developer Advocate who devotes most of his time to making Android games more awesome. — Tim Bray]Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, …
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Updated NDK for Android 4.0
Today we are releasing an updated version of the Android NDK, now in revision 7. The updated NDK lets developers who are using native code get started with the new native APIs available in Android 4.0.Android NDK r7 includes a number of build system im…
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New Layout Widgets: Space and GridLayout
[This post is by Philip Milne, who is part of the Android framework team. — Tim Bray]Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) sports two new widgets that have been designed to support the richer user interfaces made possible by larger displays: Sp…
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More Android Developer Labs in Asia
A couple of months ago, we kicked off a series of Android Developer Labs in Asia, North America and Europe. To wrap up the 2011 series, we now have opened registration for 2 more locations in Asia.Taipei — December 2, 2011Hong Kong — December 6, 2…
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JNI Local Reference Changes in ICS
[This post is by Elliott Hughes, a Software Engineer on the Dalvik team. — Tim Bray]If you don’t write native code that uses JNI, you can stop reading now. If you do write native code that uses JNI, you really need to read this.W…
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Android 4.0 Graphics and Animations
[This post is by Romain Guy and Chet Haase, Android engineers who have been known to collaborate on the subject of graphics, UIs, and animation. You can read more from them on their blogs at curious-creature.org and graphics-geek.blogspot.com. &md...