Android Development Archive

Latest news and information regarding Android development for the mobile platform. Includes Android source code and native Android application development.

Following yesterday’s announcement of the release of the Android SDK 0.9, Google have also updated the official website to include a timeline for further Android updats and releases.
This new Android roadmap will outline Google’s plans for the coming months, and keep us informed on what we can expect from Android in the future.
Google are still [...]

Not content with the recent port of Android to the Nokia N810, members of the pocked pc forum ppcgeeks.com have successfully managed to port Android over to the HTC Titan handset.
Like previous incarnations of the Android OS, the port still relies on the Windows Mobile OS underneath it, but after successfully loading the software into [...]

A growing number of Android developers are becoming increasingly upset regarding the lack of new Android updates and the overall secrecy of the Android platform.
Over on the official Android discussion group, independent Android developer Nicholas Gramlich has expressed his concern in an open letter to the company. Gramlich goes on to detial his dismay at [...]

Following on from the recent Android installation on the Nokia 810 Internet Tablet comes this demonstration of a similar port to the Nokia N95.
Other than this somewhat grainy YouTube video little is known about this latest Android port, although judging from the footage it does seem to be gathering data from Google Maps although it [...]

As if the $25,000 prize wasn’t enough, the 50 finalists of the Android Developer Challenge will also be the first group of developers to gain access to the latest SDK snapshots for the Android platform.
In an email sent out by Google, “These early access SDKs have many enhancements, additional features, and bug fixes. However, these [...]

Following on from their previous Android developer article in which they detailed the use of the Linkify function, Google have released a second in which they delve deeper into Android’s routing intents.
This article will examine how the Android operating system takes this combination of VIEW action and content: URI and finds the correct activity to [...]