More Blogginess

Hello everyone, and welcome to a rare (in this space) blog about blogging. My name is Tim Bray, and I�m the new editor of this Android Developers� Blog. I am only a student of Android, but I�m a veteran blogger, I�m part of the Android team, and they�ve given me a pretty free hand to find and publish the interesting stories. I�m expecting to enjoy this and hope you will too.

The work on Android is done at various places around the world, but in Mountain View, California there�s a building on the Google campus with an Android statue in front of it, positioned among dessert-themed sculptures that illustrate the major platform releases to date.





As of now, this blog has a header image taken from where some of the Android work happens, behind the statuary looking out. There are a ton of places on the Internet where you can read people�s opinions about what�s happening next with Android, and a lot of them are good. The one you�re reading now is the one that�s written from the inside looking out.

History

This space has been used mostly in a just-the-facts press-release-flavored way and, while that�s been useful, I thought it could be livelier. Because, even after only a few weeks� exposure to what�s going on here, I�ve discovered that there are a ton of interesting Android stories, and while some of them probably have to be secrets, there are more than enough we can tell to crank up the interest level here.

I offered this opinion internally, loudly and repeatedly, and Android management surprised me by coming back with �OK, it�s your problem now.�

Future

I�m not going to write everything here; I�m going to track down the people who actually do the creative Android-building work and get them to tell their own stories. I will bend over backward to make sure the articles have the voices of the people who write them.

We will go on being a source for hard opinion-free just-the-facts Android news. But I�d like to surround each burst of that with a cluster of reportage about what it means and how we think it will affect the Android communities.

The immediate future is going to be pretty intense, because we�re only a few weeks away from Google I/O, and I don�t think that I�m telling any secrets when I say that there will be Android-related announcements at that event. So the problems that come with the new job probably won�t include scaring up content.

The first new-flavor post is going to be on a currently-hot subject, multitasking and background processing, written by an engineer at the center of the Android universe.

Wish me luck, and stay tuned!