According to the Wall Street Journal (which charges $90 per year to access full articles), Google’s Android plans aren’t moving quite as fast as the company had hoped.

Android chief Andy Rubin told the Wall Street Journal, “This is where the pain happens. We are very, very close.”

The slowdown appears to be a result of copious reams of red tape from carriers coupled with constant changes to the Android platform frustrating developers.

Read more: crunchgear.com 

Labels: Android, developers, mobile, phone, platform, Software

Google announced on Monday the release of Google App Engine, which allows outside developers to build and run their applications on top of Google’s infrastructure, making it easier for them to focus on the applications, rather than on system administration and maintenance, the company said.

Pete Koomen, product manager at Google, said in a statement: “Google has spent years developing infrastructure for scalable web applications. We’ve brought Gmail and Google search to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and we’ve built out a powerful network of datacenters to support those applications. Today we’re taking the first step in making this infrastructure available to all developers.”

Full article: efluxmedia.com 

Labels: App Engine, applications, apps, developers, hosting

Google has many products available for desktop and mobile users, but until today there wasn’t a specific area for Mac users to find products made just for them.

Google rectified that by introducing the Google Mac Developer Playground. The playground is a place where Mac users can look for new open source projects and demos.

The Mac playground opened with six projects online – Stats, GData, MacFUSE, iPhone Disk, Cover Story and Quartz Composer Patches.

Read more: macworld.com 

Labels: code, developers, iPhone, Macintosh

The Open Handset Alliance, headed by Google, announced that it has released a developers' toolkit (SDK) for Android. And, to provide further incentive, the Android Developer Challenge was announced, which will hand out $10 million to the winning Android developers.

If it were up to Google, Inc., there would be an Android powering every handset in the world, and the search engine juggernaut is willing to put $10 million on the line to make it happen in what is dubbed the Android Developer Challenge. To that end, the Open Handset Alliance announced that it has released a developers' toolkit (SDK) for Android, the new mobile operating system, so coders could begin developing software for Android-powered phones of the future. And, to provide further incentive, the Android Developer Challenge was announced, which will hand out $10 million to the winning Android developers.

Full article: newsfactor.com 

Labels: Android, developers, Google Phone, Gphone, mobile, phone, prize

Developers can earn money by accepting AdSense advertisements for mobile devices.

Google Inc. has begun inviting mobile Web site developers to display Google ads on their sites as part of a limited beta test.

The offer extends to the mobile environment Google's AdSense program which lets Web site developers earn revenue by placing advertisements on their sites. Google runs the backend network that places ads on the sites relevant to site content. Site owners earn revenue when visitors click on the ads.

Full article: pcworld.com 

Labels: Adsense, developers, devices, mobile, testers

Google's oft-articulated plan is to provide third-party developers with the tools they need to make the Web useful. That's because the more useful the Web is, the more money Google can make in advertising.

One of the best ways to make the Web more useful is to make it faster. So today, Google bought start-up PeakStream for its Platform to help developers take advantage of advances in chip technology.

"We believe the PeakStream team's broad technical expertise can help build products and features that will benefit our users," a Google spokesperson told internetnews.com. "We look forward to providing them with additional resources as they continue developing high-performance applications for modern multi-core systems."

The spokesperson refused to comment beyond the statement, and financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Full article: internetnews.com 

Labels: developers, PeakStream, platform

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- With the passing of each fiscal quarter, it's increasingly clear Google's got a good thing going connecting the world to the fruits of Web developer labor. And it's not about to let up.

Today at its Google Developer Day event here, Google vice president Jeff Huber emphasized the search giant's plans to help developers "integrate, reach and build." In his keynote address, Huber brought out a series of company engineers to talk about the latest tools, Google Mashup Editor, Mapplets and Gears.

Full article: internetnews.com 

Labels: developers, Gears, Mapplets, Mashup