Back and other hard keys: three stories

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Desember 18, 2009

Android 2.0 introduces new behavior and support for handling hard keys such as BACK and MENU , including some special features to support t...

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Integrating Application with Intents

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November 11, 2009

Written in collaboration with Michael Burton, Mob.ly; Ivan Mitrovic, uLocate; and Josh Garnier, OpenTable. OpenTable, uLocate, and Mob.ly wo...

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UI framework changes in Android 1.6

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Oktober 23, 2009

Android 1.6 introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes in the UI framework. Today, I'd like to highlight three two improvements in ...

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Support for additional screen resolutions and densities in Android

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Oktober 08, 2009

You may have heard that one of the key changes introduced in Android 1.6 is support for new screen sizes. This is one of the things that h...

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Gestures on Android 1.6

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Oktober 05, 2009

Touch screens are a great way to interact with applications on mobile devices. With a touch screen, users can easily tap, drag, fling, or sl...

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Zipalign: an easy optimization

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September 28, 2009

The Android 1.6 SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Doing this enables Android to intera...

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An introduction to Text-To-Speech in Android

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September 23, 2009

We've introduced a new feature in version 1.6 of the Android platform: Text-To-Speech (TTS). Also known as "speech synthesis",...

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Introducing Quick Search Box for Android

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September 17, 2009

One of the new features we're really proud of in the Android 1.6 release is Quick Search Box for Android. This is our new system-wide se...

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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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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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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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