DISCLAIMER: I’m on the Android team at Google. The views expressed in this post are mine alone and not those of my employer.
One of the major complaints about Android development is that the layout preview tool in the ADT plugin for Eclipse lacks trueWYSIWYG editing capabilities….
This is a guest post from an anonymous writer, who is a loyal user of Apple products and a veteran iOS developer.
I discovered the ICS Paper Cuts blog today and I was looking through some of the screenshots they had of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. As an iOS user since the first iPhone…
Do you know there’s a hidden history of Android out there, buried under Android.com?
A casual stroll through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine revealed a treasure trove of Android memorabilia. Like the little-known fact that Android.com, at first, had nothing to do with Android’s…
This is a bit of a deviation from my own experiences using Android, but it’s something that’s been on my mind over the last week.
I don’t think it’s a secret that there are some legitimate problems with Android as a platform. Software fragmentation, lack of reference-design specifications for…
While you won’t find much information on this, savvy Android developers are aware of one of the big secrets in mobile; The Android Market is ranked via a Black Box algorithm. Most people just assume it is sales/downloads. I’ve even seen articles written where there was an assumption…
MG wrote an entertaining read about the bidding process for the Nortel patent portfolio. TL;DR: Google and Intel teamed up to bid aggressively for the Nortel patents, but they lost to a consortium of Apple, RIM, EMC, Microsoft, and others. Now Android is in jeopardy because any OEM that builds…
If you get this error:
Can not complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being installed: Android Development Tools 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404) Missing requirement: Android Development…
While you won’t find much information on this, savvy Android developers are aware of one of the big secrets in mobile; The Android Market is ranked via a Black Box algorithm. Most people just assume it is sales/downloads. I’ve even seen articles written where there was an assumption…
MG wrote an entertaining read about the bidding process for the Nortel patent portfolio. TL;DR: Google and Intel teamed up to bid aggressively for the Nortel patents, but they lost to a consortium of Apple, RIM, EMC, Microsoft, and others. Now Android is in jeopardy because any OEM that builds…
I’ve been patiently waiting for Android 4.0 to be released for my Nexus S before I wrote anything else here, but a few things have happened recently that have forced me to comment on a serious problem I see with Android.
Who is it good for that one flagship device is announced the same day as a…
