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, so a LaunchedEffect firing is not a visibility signal. If your impression tracking lives in composition effects, it's already over-counting — see #7 for the tool that actually does this job.6. TextFieldState — Text Input Grew Up Material 3 1.4 adds TextFieldState-based text fields,

Here’s the counterintuitive philosophy behind Google’s new agent system — with code. You’ve probably seen the announcement. Android Skills launched in April; the response surpassed Google’s expectations, and yesterday the Android Developer Relations team published a deep dive explaining the philosophy behind the project. Most

Final Thoughts ADK for Kotlin gives Android developers a familiar path into agent development: Kotlin functions become tools, coroutines carry events, sessions hold context, and Compose renders the result. But the framework is not the main lesson. The main lesson is that a strong Android

Build fast, private Android AI features using Gemini Nano, ML Kit GenAI APIs, AICore, and LiteRT — all directly on the device.Continue reading on ProAndroidDev »

Android Studio Quail 4 Canary 4 is now available in the Canary channel. If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on

Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations We released the official Android Skills in April, and the response surpassed all our expectations. In this blog post, I'll address some of the feedback we received, explaining the philosophy and methodology behind the project.

Turn code guidelines into automated guardrails to prevent footguns and fragile tests. Every growing codebase accumulates “dangerous” APIs: methods that are easy to misuse, cause flaky tests, or break architecture boundaries. Initially, teams rely on PR reviews or wiki pages: Eventually, human vigilance fails. Guidelines

In this approach, the screen still has one ViewModel, it still exposes the UiState, But it no longer needs to contain every piece of behavior directly.Component controller The screen is built from smaller behavior units. we call them controllers (but the name is not the

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Make sure you are calling the right app and getting the right response You will see the agent process the prompt (note — it may take a bit longer than the video above!), discover the queryGames App Function, map "4 friends" and "2 hours" to

Introduction For most of Android’s history, we have built applications for people. A user opens an app, looks at a screen, finds a button, navigates through a menu, enters some data, and finally performs an action. This model works well when the user is a

Master Android Binder IPC & AIDL with a Hands-On Jetpack Compose Example was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Google reviewed my request, approved it, and told me exactly when my new upload key would become active. Losing your keystore is stressful, but it doesn’t necessarily mean your application is lost forever. If your application uses Play App Signing, you can request an upload

Android Studio Quail 3 is now available in the Stable channel. If you already have an Android Studio build on the Stable channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on macOS). Otherwise,

Android Studio Quail 4 Canary 3 is now available in the Canary channel. If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on

Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play Providing a safe online experience and protecting users from harm is a top priority at Google Play. We take this responsibility seriously and have been investing continuously to offer baseline protections on our platform while

Posted by Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Today, we officially celebrate five years since the release of Jetpack Compose 1.0. From version 1.0, announced on July 28th, 2021, to our latest 1.11 release, we’ve seen

Posted by Andrei Shikov, Senior Software Engineer, Android Toolkit and Jonathan Starup, Software Engineer, R8 Team Starting from AGP 9.2.0, R8 optimizes most Atomic*FieldUpdater calls into Unsafe variants that perform 2x to 4x better on common operations. This has a particularly large impact on the

Android Studio Quail 4 Canary 2 is now available in the Canary channel. If you already have an Android Studio build on the Canary channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on

Android Studio Quail 2 Patch 1 is now available in the Stable channel. If you already have an Android Studio build on the Stable channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on

A new migration experience built directly into Android 17 that lets you transfer more data wirelessly from an iPhone.

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Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager and Miguel Montemayor, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Experience Today at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung unveiled its latest lineup of foldable and wearable devices. For developers, this means that the variety of form factors, screen sizes, and device postures

Posted by Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang, Senior Developer Relations Engineers, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our

Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post, we explored

Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Building GenAI features in your app usually means navigating through various models, APIs and architecture choices: Execution location: Where does your model run? On device, in the cloud, or both? Complexity: How complex is

Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we introduced Jetpacker,

Android Studio Quail 3 RC 2 is now available in the Beta channel. If you already have an Android Studio build on the Beta channel, you can get the update by clicking Help > Check for Updates (or Android Studio > Check for Updates on

Posted by Wei Wang, Engineering Manager, Android BeTo User privacy and transparency are core to the Android experience. To better align with these principles, we are updating the default behavior of the Nearby Connections API regarding how it interacts with device radios. What is changing?

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