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Android App Analysis

There’s a growing number of tools that analyse Android .apks for app vulnerabilities, over zealous permissions, data leakage and malware. You can find a great list at ashishb.net. I expect tools such as these and those provided by security consultancies...

Transitioning to Google Wallet Merchant Center

Posted by Mark Thomas, Product Manager, Google Wallet A key focus of Google Wallet is to simplify commerce for merchants and shoppers; for over a year now, consumers on Google Play have been using Wallet to make their purchases, to the benefit of the entire...

New Ways to Optimize Your Business in Google Play

Posted byEllie Powers, Google Play team This week at I/O, we were excited to announce some updates to Google Play to help you optimize your business on Google Play: to help you take control of your app publishing, gain insight into your users, and expand...

Android vs Windows Phone

A comparison from developers perspective between Android and Windows Phone.

Android Popularity

IDC has new Worldwide statistics that show for Q1 2013 Android and iOS represented 92.3% of all smartphone OS Shipments. Android had a 75% market share, iOS 17.3%, Windows Phone 3.2% and BlackBerry 2.9%.   From my perspective, as predominantly...

Social Gaming, Location, and More in Google Play Services

Posted by Greg Hartrell, Angana Ghosh, Francesco Nerieri, Francis Ma, and the Google Play services team Some of the most exciting Android announcements at Google I/O this year are part of our latest Google Play services release, version 3.1. The new...

Android Studio: An IDE built for Android

Posted byXavier Ducrohet, Tor Norbye, Katherine Chou Today at Google I/O we announced a new IDE that's built with the needs of Android developers in mind. It's called Android Studio, it's free, and it's available now for you to...

Mapping and Location in iOS and Android at Xamarin Evolve 2013

The following is a link to my talk on Mapping & Location in iOS and Android at Xamarin Evolve 2013.  Obviously, the talk is centered on MonoTouch, aka Xamarin.iOS, and Mono for Android, aka Xamarin.Android.  In this talk, I cover the native...

Android at Google I/O 2013: Keynote Wrapup

The last year has been an exciting one for Android developers, with an incredible amount of momentum. In fact, over 48 billion apps have been downloaded from Google Play to date, with over 2.5 billion app downloads in the last month alone. This week,...

EPUB Viewer for Android with Text to Speech

This is an Android application that shows the basics of building an EPUB file viewer for Android.