Google is working on a new API for Android 16 that lets system apps perform actions on behalf of users inside applications. This new API is guarded by a permission that’ll be granted to the ...

The Google Home app serves as a central hub to your smart home, and Google is now taking that further than ever before with the launch of Home APIs, which will let other apps and experiences tap ...

Some development or product manager at Google’s “got some ‘splainin to do,” announcing the Google Android cell phone OS won’t support Bluetooth APIs in the Android 0.9 SDK release. D’oh!

Eve’s Android app is finally almost here, thanks to Google’s new Home APIs With Google opening up its smart home platform, the once Apple-only smart home company Eve says development of its ...

Google is letting developers tap into hundreds of millions of Home-compatible devices through new APIs. It suggests, for instance, that food delivery apps can switch on your outdoor lights as the ...

Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search for health queries, medical records APIs, and new health-focused ...

With Google's Home APIs, device makers and mobile app developers can create smart home solutions for iOS and Android.

Crummy documentation The documentation for Android has exploded into a mess. Also, a bunch of it is essentially out of date both on the Google site and on various community sites. It’s like ...

The API for GTalkService, an instant messaging system on mobile devices that connects people to friends with Android-based handsets or Google Talk on computers, was removed because of security flaws.

Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog.

Android's operating system is open source, but it runs device-specific drivers and Google's various Play Services application programming interfaces (APIs) with a suite of built-in apps for basic ...