<h2>Getting Your App Ready for Jelly Bean and Nexus 7</h2>
<p>For many people, their first taste of Jelly Bean will be on the beautiful
Nexus 7. While most applications will run just fine on Nexus 7, who wants
their app to be just fine? Here are some tips for optimizing your application
to make the most of this device.</p>
<h2>Building Great Apps for Tablets</h2>
<p>Tablets are a growing part of the Android installed base and they offer new opportunities for user engagement and monetization. If you are targeting tablets, check out the <strong>Tablet App Quality Checklist</strong> for tips and techniques on how to deliver a great app experience for tablet users. </p>
<p>You can now set up a <strong>free trial period</strong> for any Google Play in-app subscription, making it easy for users try your subscriber content before automatically converting to a full subscription. Free trials give you a new way to bring users into your products and engage them effectively. </p>
<p>All developers can now try the <strong>new Google Play Developer Console</strong>. With a streamlined publishing flow, new language options, and new user ratings statistics, you’ll have better tools for delivering great Android apps that delight users.</p>
<p>Developers in India can sell paid applications, in-app products, and subscriptions in Google Play, with monthly payouts to their local bank accounts...</p>
<p>The rollout of Google Play services to all Android 2.2+ devices worldwide is now complete, and all of those devices now have new tools for working with OAuth 2.0 tokens...</p>
<p>In-app Billing is a Google Play service that lets you sell digital content from inside your applications. You can sell products as standard in-app products (one-time purchase) or with subscriptions (recurring...</p>
<p>More developers are investing in a full tablet experience for their apps. Here are some stories from developers who are seeing real results as they expand their offering to include Android tablets. </p>
<p>The Contacts Provider is a powerful and flexible Android component that manages the device's central repository of data about people. You can use it to build powerful social features...</p>
<p>This document helps you assess basic aspects of quality in your app through a compact set of core app quality criteria and associated tests. All Android apps should meet these criteria.</p>
<h4>Transferring Data Without Draining the Battery</h4>
<p>This training class demonstrates the best practices for scheduling and executing downloads using techniques such as caching, polling, and prefetching.</p>
<p>The Notifications API Guide is updated to include information about building Jelly Bean rich notifications using the Support Library APIs for backwards-compatibility.</p>
<p>This training class demonstrates how to use UI components and APIs available in newer versions of Android in a backward-compatible way, ensuring that your application still runs on previous versions...</p>