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Google Play services 6.5
Posted by Ian Lake, Developer Advocate To offer more seamless integration of Google products within your app, we’re excited to start the rollout of the latest version of Google Play services. Google...
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Keeping Your Saved Games in the Cloud
Posted by Todd Kerpelman, Developer Advocate Saved Games Are the Future! I think most of us have at least one or two games we play obsessively. Me? I'm a Sky Force 2014 guy. But maybe you're into...
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Begin developing with Android Auto
Posted by Daniel Holle, Product Manager At Google I/O back in June, we provided a preview of Android Auto. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of our first APIs for building Auto-enabled...
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Coding Android TV games is easy as pie
Posted by Alex Ames, Fun Propulsion Labs at Google* We’re pleased to announce Pie Noon, a simple game created to demonstrate multi-player support on the Nexus Player, an Android TV device. Pie Noon is...
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Chinese Developers Can Now Offer Paid Applications to Google Play Users in...
By Ellie Powers, product manager for Google Play Google Play is the largest digital store for Android users to discover and purchase their favorite mobile app and games, and the ecosystem is continuing...
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musiXmatch drives user engagement through innovation
Posted by Leticia Lago, Google Play team musiXmatch is an app that offers Android users the unique and powerful feature FloatingLyrics. FloatingLyrics pops up a floating window showing synched lyrics...
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Sky Force 2014 Reimagined for Android TV
By Jamil Moledina, Games Strategic Partnerships Lead, Google Play In the coming months, we’ll be seeing more media players, like the recently released Nexus Player, and TVs from partners with Android...
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Play here, play there, play anywhere with Android
I still remember my first gaming console. For months I was hooked on blocky 8-bit scenes with a repetitive soundtrack of bloops and bleeps. Back then the graphics were primitive, the choice of titles...
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Android Studio 1.0
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Over goes big and goes home with Android
Posted by Leticia Lago, Google Play team Over has taken a simple idea, adding text and artwork to photos, and turned it into a creative tool that enables anyone to easily and intuitively add a unique...
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Google Play services and DEX method limits
Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate A constraint for some Android apps is the total number of methods that the underlying compiled .dex file can support. It’s limited by 16 bits, or 65,536...
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Android dress code: wear what you want
Deciding what to wear is a really personal thing—it’s one of the ways you show people what you’re about. Wearable technology is no different, so Android Wear offers a wide selection of apps and watches...
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Watch Face API Now Available for Android Wear
Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate We’re pleased to announce that the official Android Wear Watch Face API is now available for developers. Watch faces give users even more ways to express...
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Announcing v6.5 of the Google Mobile Ads SDK for Android
Today we’re announcing the release of v6.5 of the Google Mobile Ads SDK! It’s listed as Google Play services 6.5 (Rev. 22) in the Android SDK manager, and is available for download right now. Those of...
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Your favorite apps, games, movies and more in 2014
It was a big year for entertainment, from games that fed your sweet tooth to apps that kept you fit. Icy movies warmed your hearts, and your go-to party song was literally a dark-horse favorite. You...
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Hello World, meet our new experimental toolchain, Jack and Jill
Posted by Paul Rashidi, Developer Programs Engineer We've been working on a new toolchain for Android that’s designed to improve build times and simplify development by reducing dependencies on other...
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New Code Samples for Lollipop
Posted by Trevor Johns, Developer Programs Engineer With the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop, we’ve added more than 20 new code samples demonstrating how to implement some of the great new features of...
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Making a performant watch face
Posted by Hoi Lam, Developer Advocate, Android Wear What’s a better holiday gift than great performance? You’ve got a great watch face idea -- now, you want to make sure the face you’re presenting to...
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Google Play game services ends year with a bang!
Posted by Benjamin Frenkel, Product Manager, Play Games In an effort to supercharge our Google Play games services (GPGS) developer tools, we’re introducing the Game services Publishing API, a revamped...
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Build Mobile App Services with Google Cloud Tools for Android Studio v1.0
Posted by Chris Sells, Product Manager, Cloud Tools for Android Studio Cloud Tools for Android Studio allows you to simultaneously build the service- and client-side of your mobile app. Earlier this...
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