Back in June 2012, Google gave ‘top developers’ the ability to respond directly to user reviews through the Play Store, which is great for communication between customers and developers. Then in January this year, Google started giving more developers the ability to respond and now Google have officially announced that all developers can reply to [...]

Google is really beginning to make an effort with regards to addressing a perceived lack of tablet ready apps in Google Play. This began last year when Google introduced their Tablet App Quality Checklist for developers and continued just last week when they introduced new Tablet App Guidelines and Screenshots for the Play Store which [...]

In an update posted today on the Android Developers Blog, Google has announced that it will be even easier from today to show off tablet-optimised apps to users and easier for developers to understand what steps they can take to make a great tablet application. Developers will be able to upload screenshots of their applications [...]

Google’s venture funding arm – Google Ventures – has launched a campaign seeking to encourage developers and entrepreneurs to make the most of Google Glass. The Glass Collective is an alliance between 3 firms – Andreessen Horowitz, KPCB and Google Ventures themselves – looking to help fund startups entering the Google Glass space. They recognise [...]

Google have today added the option for free trials for in-app subscriptions so that users can try a service out before forking out any money for it. Free trials aren’t automatically brought in for all subscriptions, instead it’s completely up to developers whether or not they implement the free trials that are a minimum length [...]

We’re not too sure why you’d ever need it, but we know you’d want it: 720p video recording on the Nexus 7′s front (and only) camera. One of the great developers over at XDA-Developers worked out that the camera natively supports 720p recording, but Google left out the media profiles allowing its functionality. Now that [...]

In a move that will surely make a lot of people and developers happy; Google is rolling out the ability for app developers labelled as “Top Developers” (think: Zynga, Facebook, Twitter, Gameloft) to reply to users comments/reviews in the Google Play Store. Now developers will be able to “school” unruly and moaning users who complain [...]

The team behind open-sourcing HP’s WebOS has lost a few members today as they head on over to Google, with likely jobs on the Android team. While HP will continue with their strategy to open source WebOS by September this year, the fact that a core part of their team has left has got to [...]

The most recent update from the Android Developers dashboard shows an increase in devices running Ice Cream Sandwich which access the Google Play Store has risen from 2.9% last month to 4.9%. Probably due in part to Samsungs continued rollout of 4.0.3 to it’s Galaxy S II line of phones and also the recent release [...]

Apps on the Android Market will no longer have to adhere to the 50MB limit set by Google. Well, sort of. Today Google announced that Apps on the Android Market can now be up to 4GB in size, however, the actual .apk file must be up to 50MB but it can have 2 addition ‘expansion’ [...]

Looks like the Android Market continues to grow and the number of apps added is increasing pretty quickly, Distimo are reporting that the Market now plays host to over 400,000 apps. When they broke down the numbers they found that 2/3 of those apps are ‘Free’ apps, which from my experience I would take to [...]

Here at Ausdroid we love supporting great Aussie developers whom create really cool stuff, one of those great developers are the guys at Shifty Jelly whom created the awesome application Pocket Casts which aggregates heaps of podcasts (including ours!) in one easy to use place. The app is currently the top featured in the Android [...]

And so it begins. Not so long ago Samsung sent a few lucky CM devs their latest and greatest creation, the Samsung Galaxy S II, their mission? develop, and this is what they have done. Starting now, you can get the first nightly, direct from the CyanogenMod mirror network. There are a few things to [...]