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May 27 - 28, 2009 Moscone Center, San Francisco

UPDATE via Anrdroid Developer’s Blog

Posted by Dan Morrill, Developer Advocate on 30 March 2009 at 4:00 PM

For no particular reason other than to celebrate this particular Monday, I wanted to update developers on two Android-related news items.

If you’re a developer who will be in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of May, I hope you’ll join us at the 2009 Google I/O developer conference. You might have already seen the sessions we had listed for Android, but today I’m quite pleased to let you know that we’ve added a few more Android-related sessions. You can find the full list plus abstracts on the Google I/O site, but here are the titles:

• Turbo-Charge Your UI: How to Make Your Android UI Fast and Efficient
• Pixel-Perfect Code: How to Marry Interaction and Visual Design the Android Way
• Supporting Multiple Devices with One Binary
• Debugging Arts of the Ninja Masters
• Coding for Life—Battery Life, That Is
• Writing Real-Time Games for Android
• Android Lightning Talks

These sessions don’t even include the “fireside chat” with the Core Technical Team that we have planned. We’re working on still more sessions too; keep an ear to the ground on this blog and the Google I/O site for the latest info. I’m pretty excited about how the Android sessions for Google I/O are coming together. I think it’s going to be a great event, and I hope to meet many of you there.

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Today, we’re thrilled to tell you about the improvements we’ve made to Gmail for mobile, running in the iPhone and Android web browser. First, you’ll notice that it’s a lot faster when performing actions like opening an email, navigating, or searching. And if the data network drops out on you, rest assured that Gmail won’t. You’ll still be able to open recently read messages and to compose over a flaky, or non-existent, network connection. All this is achieved with aggressive caching and by leveraging new browser technologies, like HTML5 and Gears. The full impact of this new architecture isn’t visible yet, but it will enable us to significantly improve performance and quickly roll out new features in the near future. We’re really excited about the potential impact this change can bring - so excited, in fact, that our VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, shared the news and demoed these new capabilities at the February 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona and last week at Web 2.0 in San Francisco.

Digital Airways Enables Rapid Porting of New Applications to Android with Kaleido UI Solution VIDEO |AndroidGuys

The race for home screen customization is on. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a handful of titles popping up, including Sweeter Home, dxTop, and aHome. As developers get more involved in what Android’s main screen can look like, tweaks and desktop hacks are sure to grow. But what about seeing Android’s looks changed at an OEM level?

Note: turn on captions, as there is no audio and the video quality is not great.

Apparently, there is no way for me to turn on captions for the embedded video, but you can do it by clicking through to YouTube.

a walking city » Blog Archive » Qr Codes Made Even Easier With Android.

In my previous entry I mentioned that I would like to see specific Intents that let you use the encoding and decoding ability of ZXing from other applications and the ZXing team responded that the latest build had this exact functionality! Now all you have to do is install Barcode Scanner on your phone and your applications can take advantage of its features. Specifically, it provides Intents that allow your application to use the encoding and decoding functionality. The Intent mechanism makes it almost too simple to integrate this functionality into your application. Encoding - “com.google.zxing.client.android.ENCODE” To encode a string into a QR Code Simply create an Intent with the Decode action specified, two string extras specifying the Type and Data and call startActivity(): The string values for the Intents and the extras values can be found in the Intents and Content classes in the ZXing source code.