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Android Studio Panda 1 | 2025.3.1 RC 1 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

Phalene Gowling, Product Manager, Google PlayTo build a thriving business on Google Play, you need more than just data – you need a clear path to action. Today, we’re announcing a suite of upgrades to the Google Play Console and beyond, giving you greater visibility

An Android & Backend Architecture Reality Check For years, mobile security advice has included the same line: TLS decryption In these scenarios, attackers bypass pinning by:Hooking certificate validation functionsOverriding TrustManager or OkHttp logicModifying app bytecodeExtracting session tokens directly from memory At this point, TLS is

In Android development, handling sensitive data such as API keys, client secrets, cryptographic material, and access tokens is a security-critical responsibility. Any secret shipped inside an Android application should be assumed extractable under sufficient effort. APKs can be decompiled, memory can be inspected, and runtime

From Pixels to Perfection: A Deep Dive into Compose’s onGloballyPositioned was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

How to use API-Implementation modules to empower large team on large projects

To further help bring your ML Kit Prompt API use cases to production, we are excited to announce Automated Prompt Optimization (APO) targeting On-Device models on Vertex AI. Automated Prompt Optimization is a tool that helps you automatically find the optimal prompt for your use

Master dynamic height Top App Bars in Jetpack Compose. Build flexible, reactive headers that go beyond the limitations of standard Material 3 components.The Problem with Standard App Bars Material3’s ) while maintaining complete control over the visual presentation. This approach is perfect for profile screens,

Android Studio Panda 2 | 2025.3.2 Canary 1 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

Posted by Roxanna Aliabadi Walker, Product Manager and Yacine Rezgui, Developer Relations EngineerThe Embedded Photo Picker: A more seamless way to privately request photos and videos in your app Get ready to enhance your app's user experience with an exciting new way to use the

Posted by Prateek Batra, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Adaptive Apps Beyond Phones: How JioHotstar Built an Adaptive UX JioHotstar is a leading streaming platform in India, serving a user base exceeding 400 million. With a vast content library encompassing over 330,000 hours of video on

Link to GitHub: AnimatedBackground.ktSummary Shaders are an incredibly powerful tool — but only when used for the right problems. In this article, I explored AGSL through fractals as a way to understand how shaders really behave on Android. Rendering the Mandelbrot and Julia sets showed

Displaying a list of items has always been a part of user interfaces. We can see it in almost every app, but it comes with some challenges to the user experience, like waiting for new items to load after scrolling or seeing a janky, unresponsive

Previously in this series: Agents eventually run out of context. When they do, they crash, and you lose everything mid-task. We’ve been running GPT-5 Codex since Part 1. It scores 0.58 on SWE-bench Verified. We tried Claude Sonnet 4.5 next, which scored 0.6 and ran

With each KotlinConf, developers from around the world come together to learn from leading experts, explore the latest industry insights, and engage with the Kotlin community. KotlinConf’25 alone welcomed attendees from over 50 countries. KotlinConf’26 is just a few months away, and we’re excited to

Supporting Longevity through Faster Diagnostics Posted by Rachel S, Android Product Manager Trade-in mode: faster assessment of a factory-reset phone or tablet, bypassing setup wizard, a new feature on Android 16 and above.Supporting device longevityAndroid is committed to making devices last longer. With device longevity

Every Compose developer chains modifiers. It’s second nature: you need padding, a background, maybe a clip, then make the item clickable. Easy. But here’s the twist: the order of those modifiers can make the this massive, invisible clickable area. And in the end, we are

Now that we have confirmed our video engine is alive, let’s look at how to scale this into an infinite vertical feed using the VerticalPager.Attaching the Pager Once we have confirmed that a single video plays successfully, we can wrap our logic in a VerticalPager.

Modern apps are no longer limited to a single screen size. Your UI must work smoothly on:📱 Phones📲 Foldable💻 Tablets🖥 Desktop And not just When Using Scaffold with TopAppBar / Bottom UI If a screen uses:TopAppBarBottomAppBarFAB Then using Scaffold is safe and recommended, because:The Scaffold

When Your Compose Layout Needs to “Peek” at Its Children First If you’ve been working with Jetpack Compose, you’ve probably hit that frustrating moment where your layout just doesn’t behave the way you expect. Maybe a weight() modifier inside a Box causes weird behavior, or

Ktor 3.4.0 improves stability and addresses outstanding issues. Highlights include OpenAPI generation, Ztsd support for the compression plugin, duplex streaming for OkHttp, Structured concurrency integrations for the HTTP request lifecycle, and much more. For a detailed list of all the changes, check out the What’s

This is the first major release of Exposed – a huge milestone for both the project and the Exposed team! This release brings many new exciting features, the most requested being R2DBC support, as well as performance enhancements and bug fixes. Exposed 1.0 also introduces

Posted by Georgia Doyle, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, and Kanu Tibrewal, Software Engineer We’ve launched a new Save for later feature on Google Play Console’s Publishing overview to give you more control over when you send changes for review. In the past, changes

This post was written together with Thorben Janssen, who has more than 20 years of experience with JPA and Hibernate and is the author of “Hibernate Tips: More than 70 Solutions to Common Hibernate Problems” and the JPA newsletter. Kotlin and Jakarta Persistence (also known

Android Studio Panda 1 | 2025.3.1 Canary 5 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

Android Gradle plugin 9.0 is now available, and it includes two major changes that will affect existing Kotlin projects: This post provides some details about these changes and points you to the resources that you’ll need to update your existing projects. You’ll also need to

Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop | 2025.2.3 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

Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Senior Product Manager and Trevor Johns, Developer Relations Engineer We are excited to announce that Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop is now stable! This feature-packed release brings a huge update to your agentic workflows in Android Studio, and offers you

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 has been released! We’re continually developing our multiplatform APIs and expanding support for Jetpack libraries commonly used on Android. Here are the highlights of this release: Get Started with Compose Multiplatform For a complete overview of the changes, check out What’s new

Compose Hot Reload has just been promoted to stable with our 1.0.0 release. We worked hard to build a technology that is easy to use and well-integrated into existing tools while also requiring zero configuration from users. The tool is bundled with Compose Multiplatform, starting