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Mai 2010

On Android Compatibility

31. Mai 2010 - 23:18 – Markus

[This post is by Dan Morrill, Open Source & Compatibility Program Manager. — Tim Bray]

Android Cloud To Device Messaging

27. Mai 2010 - 19:48 – Markus

[This post is by Wei Huang, who helped implement this feature. — Tim Bray]

In the just-launched Android 2.2, we’ve added a new service to help developers send data from servers to their applications on Android phones. Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) makes it easier for mobile applications to sync data with servers.

Dalvik JIT

25. Mai 2010 - 22:57 – Markus

[This post is by Dan Bornstein, virtual-machine wrangler. — Tim Bray]

As the tech lead for the Dalvik team within the Android project, I spend my time working on the virtual machine (VM) and core class libraries that sit beneath the Android application framework. This layer is mostly invisible to end users, but done right, it helps make Android devices run smoothly and improves developer productivity.

Android Application Error Reports

22. Mai 2010 - 6:28 – Markus

[This post, the first in a series about new features in Android 2.2 ("Froyo"), is by Jacek Surazski, a Googler from our Krakow office. — Tim Bray]

Android 2.2 and developers goodies.

20. Mai 2010 - 17:00 – Markus

Today at Google I/O we announced that Android 2.2 is right around the corner. This is our seventh platform release since we launched Android 1.0 in September 2008. We wanted to highlight five areas in particular:

Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound code vs. Android 2.1 according to various benchmarks.

The Google TV Story

19. Mai 2010 - 22:47 – Markus

Vincent Dureau, who’s in charge of Google TV, is a lean, bony-faced man with a strong French accent; not too far off my own age, I’d say. With the announcement imminent, he’s been too busy to write; I'm reporting on my talk with him to give a feel for the thinking behind the project. You’ll notice an absence of quotation marks; Vincent’s half of the conversation is reconstructed from the combination of my memory and notes.

Latitude API Launch

19. Mai 2010 - 20:59 – Markus

Over at the Google Code Blog, there's a pretty significant announcement, about the release of APIs for Latitude. the idea, as you might expect, is that the best way to get good location-based applications is to put the tools for building them into everyone's hands.

Stand By...

18. Mai 2010 - 23:17 – Markus

I'm posting this from Moscone West, the site of Google I/O 2010. Some things that it may be useful to know:

Android 2.2 mit Tethering und Wifi-Hotspot

15. Mai 2010 - 20:41 – Markus

Es ist ein neuer Screenshot der nächsten Android Version 2.2 erschienen. Auf diesem sind Einstellmöglichkeiten für eine Tethering- und WLAN-Hotspot-Funktion sichtbar, die euer Android Handy mit dem Update auf die Version 2.2 erhalten soll! Vor wenigen Tagen wurde bereits bekannt gegeben, dass Android Froyo volle Unterstützung für das Flash-Format und einen erheblichen Geschwindigkeitsvorteil mitbringen soll. ...

Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns

12. Mai 2010 - 17:46 – Markus

[This post is by Chris Nesladek, Interaction Designer, Richard Fulcher, Interaction Designer, and Virgil Dobjanschi, Software Engineer — Tim Bray]

Along with our regular updates of the Android platform, we like to build example applications that showcase best practices for UI features and behavior patterns, to help our 3rd party developers create even richer applications.