New Courses — Developing Watch Apps for Android Wear
Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate We recently released a new Udacity course on Ubiquitous Computing with Android Wear, built as a collaboration between Udacity and Google. Android Wear...
View ArticleGet your bibs ready for Big Android BBQ!
Posted by, Colt McAnlis, Senior Texas Based Developer Advocate We’re excited to be involved in the Big Android BBQ (BABBQ) this year because of one thing: passion! Just like BBQ, Android development...
View ArticleGoogle Developers teams up with General Assembly to launch Android...
Posted by Peter Lubbers, Senior Program Manager, Google Developer Training Today at the Big Android BBQ we announced that we have teamed up with General Assembly (GA), a global education institution...
View ArticleVirtual currency: Sources and Sinks
Posted by Damien Mabin, Developer Advocate More and more mobile games base their economic model on virtual currencies and free to play, yet there are plenty of pitfalls to be aware of while developing...
View ArticleCoffee with a Googler: Bullet Time with the Cloud Spin Team
Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate As part of Google Cloud Platform’s Next roadshow, the team decided to make a demo that anybody could get involved in, and the concept of Google Cloud Spin...
View ArticleNew in Android Samples: Authenticating to remote servers using the...
Posted by Takeshi Hagikura, Yuichi Araki, Developer Programs Engineer As we announced in the previous blog post, Android 6.0 Marshmallow is now publicly available to users. Along the way, we’ve been...
View ArticlePodcasters, welcome to Google Play Music
Google Play Music helps connect people with the perfect soundtrack for whatever they’re doing—whether they’re stuck in rush hour traffic, staying up late with friends or lifting weights at the gym. But...
View ArticleIntroducing a New Course on Developing Android Apps for Auto
Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate Android Auto brings the Android platform to the car in a way that’s optimized for the driving experience, allowing the user to keep their hands on the...
View ArticleGoogle Play Games: capture and share the moment
As with many gamers, I enjoy watching recorded gameplay to learn how to get past difficult levels or just listen to funny commentary. Who doesn’t love a good ‘Leeroy Jenkins’ battle cry or a come from...
View ArticleLearn top tips from Kongregate to achieve success with Store Listing Experiments
Posted by Lily Sheringham, Developer Marketing at Google Play Editor’s note: This is another post in our series featuring tips from developers finding success on Google Play. We recently spoke to games...
View ArticleSetting up company-owned devices now easier with Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)
Do you purchase and give your employees Android phones and tablets to use at work? If so, our updated EMM solution now makes it easier for those employees to get their devices up and running, while...
View ArticleNew Course on Developing Android Apps for Google Cast and Android TV
Posted by Josh Gordon, Developer Advocate Go where your users are: the living room! Google Cast lets users stream their favorite apps from Android, iOS and the Web right onto their TV. Android TV turns...
View ArticleProguard and AdMob mediation
If you’re an Android developer who uses ProGuard to post-process builds, you already know the improvements it can make to APK size and speed. Just as handy, though, is its ability to obfuscate your...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Project Tango App Contest Winners & Special Developer Kit...
Posted by Larry Yang, Product Manager, Project Tango Over the past year, we put Project Tango Tablet Development Kits in the hands of thousands of developers and challenged them to create unique...
View ArticleFind, approve, and install apps that work with Android for Work even more easily
The Google Apps Marketplace offers hundreds of quality enterprise apps that admins can install for their domains, enhancing their employees’ native Google for Work apps with additional functionality...
View ArticleAndroid Developer Story: Peak Games generates majority of global revenue for...
Posted by Lily Sheringham, Google Play team Founded in 2010, Turkish mobile games developer Peak Games started developing games targeted to the local market and is now scaling globally. Their game...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Google Play services 8.3
Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate We’re delighted to announce the availability of Google Play services 8.3. There’s a lot of new information to share with you about what’s available to you...
View ArticleAndroid Wear: Introducing TAG Heuer Connected
Watches have a long and celebrated history of mixing beauty with engineering breakthroughs. And TAG Heuer has been at the forefront of many of these innovations—from the first chronograph accurate to...
View ArticleTesting your app for Android for Work
Posted by, Rich Hyndman, Developer Advocate Testing is important whether you’re building a dedicated app for the workplace, rolling out new features, or making it easy for IT departments to deploy....
View ArticleDeveloper tips for success with Player Analytics and Google Play games services
Posted by, Lily Sheringham, Developer Marketing at Google Play Editor’s note: As part of our series featuring tips from developers, we spoke to some popular game developers to find out how they use...
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