Android SDK Tools, Revision 20

[This post is by Xavier Ducrohet, Tech Lead for the Android developer tools]Along with the preview of the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) platform, we launched Android SDK Tools R20 and ADT 20.0.0. Here are a few things that we would like to highlight.Application templates: Android ADT supports a new application templates...

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Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more

[This post is by Angana Ghosh, Product Manager on the Android team] At Google I/O today we announced the latest version of the Android platform, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). With Jelly Bean, we’ve made the great things about Android even better with improved system performance and enhanced user features.Improvements...

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Replying to User Reviews on Google Play

[This post is by Trevor Johns from the Android team — Tim Bray]User reviews on Google Play are great for helping people discover quality apps and give feedback to developers and other potential app users. But what about when developers want to give feedback to their users? Sometimes a user just needs...

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Helping you build beautiful, powerful, successful apps

[This post is by Billy Rutledge, Director of Developer Relations for Android. — Tim Bray]Just in time for Google I/O next week, the Android Developers site is stepping into a new look that is streamlined, simplified, and refocused. A developer’s tasks fall into three baskets: Designing, developing,...

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Using DialogFragments

[This post is by David Chandler, Android Developer Advocate — Tim Bray]Honeycomb introduced Fragments to support reusing portions of UI and logic across multiple activities in an app. In parallel, the showDialog / dismissDialog methods in Activity are being deprecated in favor of DialogFragments.In...

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