Introducing Android 1.5 NDK, Release 1

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Juni 25, 2009

Many of you have been asking for the ability to call into native code from your Android applications. I'm glad to announce that develope...

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Painless threading

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Mei 06, 2009

Whenever you first start an Android application, a thread called "main" is automatically created. The main thread, also called the...

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Drawable mutations

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Mei 04, 2009

Android's drawables are extremely useful to easily build applications. A Drawable is a pluggable drawing container that is usually asso...

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Widget Design Guidelines

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April 30, 2009

Since the beginning of the year, the Android UI team has been hard at work on the Android 1.5 release. Starting today with widgets, we would...

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Backward compatibility for Android applications

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April 28, 2009

Android 1.5 introduced a number of new features that application developers can take advantage of, like virtual input devices and speech rec...

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Android 1.5 at Google I/O

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April 27, 2009

I admit, I've been talking big about Google I/O in my last few posts. But I'm entirely serious: Google I/O is going to be the Andro...

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Android 1.5 is here!

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April 27, 2009

I've got some good news today: the Android 1.5 SDK, release 1 is ready! Grab it from the download page . For an overview of the new Andr...

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Introducing GLSurfaceView

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April 24, 2009

GLSurfaceView is a new API class in Android 1.5. GLSurfaceView makes OpenGL ES applications easier to write by: Providing the glue code to c...

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Live folders

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April 24, 2009

Live folders have been introduced in Android 1.5 and let you display any source of data on the Home screen without forcing the user to launc...

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Future-Proofing Your Apps

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April 23, 2009

Hi, developers! I hope you've heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some gre...

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Creating an Input Method

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April 22, 2009

To create an input method (IME) for entering text into text fields and other Views, you need to extend the InputMethodService . class. T...

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On-screen Input Methods

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April 21, 2009

Starting from Android 1.5, the Android platform offers an Input Method Framework (IMF) that lets you create on-screen input methods such as ...

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Introducing home screen widgets and the AppWidget framework

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April 20, 2009

One exciting new feature in the Android 1.5 SDK is the AppWidget framework which allows developers to write "widgets" that people ...

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