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Remix, which uses Nano Banana, our Gemini image model, lets you edit photos with AI, without ever leaving the Google Messages app.

A great user experience is built on a foundation of strong technical performance. We are committed to helping yo create stable, responsive, and efficient apps that users love. Excessive battery drain is top of mind for your users, and together, we are taking significant steps

Evolving legacy code with maximum power Now let’s move on to a more difficult code structure, commonly found in legacy projects without architecture or design patterns. In this example, I’m demonstrating a common case of a legacy or god class.Legacy or god class:// LegacyGodDatabase.kt object

Why Your ViewModel Is Technically Unstable — and Why Compose Doesn’t Mind In this way, we can see that classes receiving injections from other layers also become unstable.Why Unstable ViewModels Are Okay in Compose A ViewModel typically injects a Repository or UseCase and acts as

Deep Dive into Jetpack Compose Text Views : The Secret Life of ComposableThe compiler rewrites your @Composable functions to accept extra hidden parameters. This help Compose track what parts of the UI depend on what state. So this makes Compose That’s it for this deep

This comprehensive tracking ensures that any change to stability is visible and requires conscious decision-making.CI/CD integration Add stability validation to your GitHub Actions workflow:name: Android CI on: [push, pull_request] jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: Set up JDK 17 uses: actions/setup-java@v3

Greetings, developers! Retrofit is an extremely common idea in the Android space, regardless of whether you are an experienced Android developer or have just been interviewed for an Android role. Some developers have found the journey from AsyncTask, the first networking framework in Android, to

This approach had a slightly better impact on HTTP request latency compared to the aggressive approach, though it still remained degraded. Video loading time was about 1% slower than with the aggressive approach. Reddit’s experience and learning Based on all our experiments, we’ve decided to

Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 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 >

9. When to Use Which Use Hilt when:You’re building a large, multi-module Android app.You want compile-time safety and predictable startup.You need deep integration with Jetpack (ViewModel, WorkManager, etc.).You’re scaling across a team or CI pipeline. Use Koin when:You’re prototyping or iterating quickly.You want zero boilerplate

In our latest #WeArePlay stories, we meet the founders building apps and games that are making health and wellness fun and easy for everyone on Google Play. From getting heavy sleepers jumping into their mornings, to turning mental wellness into an immersive adventure game.Here are

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Health Connect is Android’s on-device platform designed to simplify connectivity between health and fitness apps, allowing developers to build richer experiences with secure, centralized data. Today, we’re thrilled to announce three major updates that empower you to create more intelligent, connected, and nuanced applications: the

How a simple data structure from the 1960s makes your Android apps blazingly fastSummary: The Big Picture 🎯 Let’s recap what we learned:Gap Buffers = Smart arrays with a movable empty space for fast local edits (O(1) time)Slot Table = Compose’s gap buffer for UI

Helper Methods Alright, and then the tests. We’ll want to write a couple of helper methods to make the code more readable.SemanticsNode.isTruncatedWithEllipsis() Let’s start with a check for a semantics node for if it is truncated with ellipsis:fun SemanticsNode.isTruncatedWithEllipsis(): Boolean { val textLayoutResult = mutableListOf()

Conclusion Animating your bottom navigation icons is a subtle but powerful way to add polish and delight to your app. While the XML approach requires a custom view for a robust implementation, Jetpack Compose offers a more elegant and straightforward solution out of the box.

Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer, Chengji Yan, Software Engineer, and Penny Li, Software EngineerAI is making it easier to create personalized app experiences that transform content into the right format for users. We previously enabled developers to integrate with Gemini Nano through ML

Kakao Mobility is South Korea's leading mobility business, offering a range of transportation and delivery services, including taxi-hailing, navigation, bike and scooter-sharing, parking, and parcel delivery, through its Kakao T app. The team at Kakao Mobility utilized Gemini Nano via ML Kit’s GenAI Prompt API

Thomas Ezan, Developer Relations Engineer As the world's largest online bus ticketing platform, redBus serves millions of travelers across India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. The service is predominantly mobile-first, with over 90% of all bookings occurring through its app. However, this presents a significant

Android Studio Otter | 2025.2.1 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 macOS).

Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 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 >

We’re in an important moment where AI changes everything, from how we work to the expectations that users have for your apps, and our goal on Android is to transform this AI evolution into opportunities for you and your users. Today in our Fall episode

Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play Last month, we shared new updates showcasing our evolving vision for Google Play: a place where people can discover the content and experiences they love and where you can build and grow sustainable businesses. Our

Calm is a leading mental health and wellness company with over 180 million downloads. When they started their development for Android XR, their core engineering team was able to build their first functional XR orbiter menus on Day 1 and a core experience in just

Ink API is now in beta and is ready to be integrated in your app.. This milestone was made possible by valuable developer feedback, leading to continuous improvements in the API's performance, stability, and visual quality.Google apps, such as Google Docs, Pixel Studio, Google Photos,

Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 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 >

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High Dynamic Range (HDR) enables increased peak brightness beyond Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) for Android developers, offering enhanced visual fidelity. Android supports HDR for video and images, including technologies like UltraHDR for backward compatibility. Understanding color involves three components:Bit depth: Defines the precision of color

Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 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 >

Android Studio Otter | 2025.2.1 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 Updates