Monthly Archives: December 2011
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Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText()
[This post is by Jesse Wilson from the Dalvik team. —Tim Bray]Using XmlPullParser is an efficient and maintainable way to parse XML on Android. Historically Android has had two implementations of this interface:KXmlParser, via XmlPullParserFactory.ne…
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Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools
Today we are announcing Android 4.0.3, an incremental release of the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) platform. The new release includes a variety of optimizations and bug fixes for phones and tablets, as well as a small number of new APIs for develope…
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Introducing Android Training
[This post is by Reto Meier, Android Developer Relations Tech Lead. — Tim Bray]Today I’m thrilled to announce the beta launch of Android Training — a collection of classes that we hope will help you to build better Android ap…
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More Android Games that Play Nice
[This post is by Dan Galpin, who lives the Android Games lifestyle every day. — Tim Bray]Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, multi-purpose system like Android is trick…
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Add Voice Typing To Your IME
[This post is by Luca Zanolin, an Android engineer who works on voice typing. — Tim Bray]A new feature available in Android 4.0 is voice typing: the difference for users is that the recognition results appear in the text box while …
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A Closer Look at 10 Billion Downloads
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
On Tuesday, we announced that Android Market passed 10 Billion app downloads. We wanted to look a little deeper at that huge number. First question: which app was lucky numb…
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10 Billion Android Market Downloads and Counting
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]
One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing. This past weekend, than…