Posted by Márton Braun, Developer Relations Engineer The Kotlin compiler is being rewritten for Kotlin 2.0. The new compiler impleme...

[This post is by Dianne Hackborn and a supporting cast of thousands; Dianne’s fingerprints can be found all over the Android Application Fra...

[This post is by Romain Guy , who likes things on your screen to move fast. —Tim Bray] One of the biggest changes we made to Android for Hon...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...