Here's everything you need to know to begin developing applications on the Android platform.

NinePatch graphics are an indispensable tool for Android developers looking to support the variety of device screen sizes and orientations.

A veteran mobile application developer vents his frustration with a list of 10 things he loves to hate about Android.

Create an Android App Widget for the home screen which relies upon background processing by an Android Service.

Discover Android, an open source mobile platform being developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

To work on mobile devices, Google's Android must adhere to similar design standards that will produce the desired user experience. Your software always needs to be responsive to the user's interaction. Pick up some tips to avoid blocking the execution of the main thread and update the main view when the results are available from the child threads.

Explore key Google Maps APIs that power Android mapping features.

Google's new mobile platform, Android, has become increasingly popular among developers even without hardware available on the market yet. Discover where to get the right software APIs and documentation as well as what technologies are supported. Then, you will focus on the technologies for images by working through an example.