Dezember 2009

Hello, Stack Overflow!

Over the past year, an Android presence has been growing on a relatively new technical Q&A web site called Stack Overflow. The site was designed specifically for programmers, with features like syntax highlighting, tagging, user reputation, and community editing. It's attracted a loyal software developer community, and developers continue to express great praise for this new tool. Well, the Android team has been listening...and we agree.

Back and other hard keys: three stories

Android 2.0 introduces new behavior and support for handling hard keys such as BACK and MENU, including some special features to support the virtual hard keys that are appearing on recent devices such as Droid.

This article will give you three stories on these changes: from the most simple to the gory details. Pick the one you prefer.

New resources and sample code on developer.android.com

Hey Android developers—if you've visited the online Android SDK documentation recently, you may have noticed a few changes. That's right, there's a new Resources tab, which was designed to take some of the load off the Developer's Guide.

Knowing is half the battle

As a developer, I often wonder which Android platforms my applications should support,especially as the number of Android-powered devices grows. Should my application only focus on the latest version of the platform or should it support older ones as well?

Google Nexus One - Google-Phone

Das Nexus One soll ein von Google selbst vetriebenes Smartphone auf Android-Basis sein und mit Android 2.1 laufen.
Die Details:

  • 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Prozessor
  • 320MB RAM
  • 512MB ROM
  • MicroSD-Slot
  • MicroUSB-Anschluss
  • 3,5 mm Klinken-Anschluss
  • 3,7 Zoll OLED WVGA Touchscreen mit einer Auflösung von 854 x 480 Pixeln
  • 1500 mAh Akku
  • 5-Megapixel-Kamera
Google Nexus One - Google-Phone

Vollversion von Avamboo Outlook Synchronisation Server zu gewinnen

Wir verlosen unter all unseren Twitter-Followern und allen die folgenden Text Twittern 5 Vollversion von Avamboo Outlook Sync: sync.avamboo.de:

RT @go_android_de win a full version of Avamboo Outlook Sync for Android #Android #Outlook #Sync http://www.go-android.de
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Come to Our Virtual Office Hours

Starting this week, we're going to be holding regular IRC office hours for Android app developers in the #android-dev channel on irc.freenode.net. Members of the Android team will be on hand to answer your technical questions. (Note that we will not be able to provide customer support for the phones themselves.)

We've arranged our office hours to accommodate as many different schedules as possible, for folks around the world. We will initially hold two sessions each week:

Optimize your layouts

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* Mac Classic
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/* Mostly to improve view within the TextMate HTML viewer */
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

pre.textmate-source {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 0 2px;
font-family: Monaco, monospace;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 1.3em;
word-wrap: break-word;
white-space: pre;
white-space: pre-wrap;
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
}

Google Goggles - visuelle Suche für Android

Exklusiv für Android hat Google im Market "Google Goggles" veröffentlicht.

Einfach im Market nach "Google Goggles" suchen - damit ist es möglich eine "visuelle Suche durchzuführen", d.h. statt Tex einzugeben macht man ein Foto von etwas und sendet das Foto mit der Google App an google - daraufhin wird ein Suchergebnis angezeigt:

Android SDK Updates

Today we are releasing updates to multiple components of the Android SDK:

  • Android 2.0.1, revision 1
  • Android 1.6, revision 2
  • SDK Tools, revision 4