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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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