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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,

How to seamlessly connect two dependency injection worlds in a Kotlin Multiplatform project: If you’re building a KMP application with Koin handling shared dependencies and Hilt managing Android-specific code, you’ve likely faced a critical challenge: these two DI frameworks live in separate worlds and don’t

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 >

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This is the second post in The Ultimate Guide to Successfully

Capturing fast-moving action with clarity is a key feature for modern camera apps. This is achieved through high-speed capture—the process of acquiring frames at rates like 120 or 240 fps. This high-fidelity capture can be used for two distinct purposes: creating a high-frame-rate video for

It’s been a while since you last heard from me – I know, I’ve been a busy bee! Between releases and launches, time just flew by. But I’ve got plenty of updates to share with you. Let’s start with some of the biggest highlights from

We’re excited to announce that Material 3 Adaptive 1.2.0 is now stable! This release continues to build on the foundations of previous versions, expanding support to more breakpoints for window size classes and new strategies to place display panes automatically.What’s new in Material 3 Adaptive

Key JUnit improvements for Kotlin, including JUnit 6. Recent JUnit Updates for Kotlin was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

but as its name suggests, it is focused on producing state. Think about it. Wouldn’t it feel awkward to imagine some Effect occurring every time state is initialized? Therefore, If you simply need to initialize a state asynchronously, using produceState is appropriate. On the other

When your ViewModel needs runtime data, but you still want dependency injection. Have you ever found yourself in this situation? You’re building an Android app with Hilt, everything’s going smoothly with dependency injection, and then suddenly you need to pass a user ID from your

Announced at Google I/O 2025 and now stable. Build camera UIs with CameraXViewfinder and camera-compose: setup, coordinate transforms, tap-to-focus, pinch-to-zoom, photos and video, plus migration.Introduction Remember your first camera screen in Jetpack Compose? Pure declarative joy… until the preview. Then came that familiar AndroidView(PreviewView) detour.

Samsung Galaxy XR is here, powered by Android XR! This blog post is part of our Android XR Spotlight Week, where we provide resources—blog posts, videos, sample code, and more—all designed to help you learn, build, and prepare your apps for Android XR. Today, we're

Best Practices for Surface in ComposeEmbrace AndroidView for Interoperability: AndroidView is the correct and intended way to bring legacy Views into your Compose hierarchy. Don't fight it.Use Lifecycle-Aware Effects: Instead of relying solely on the old SurfaceHolder.Callback, using remember and DisposableEffect (or a remembered callback

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This post opens The Ultimate Guide to Successfully Adopting Kotlin in

Posted by The Android Team In just a few days, on Thursday, October 30th at 10AM PT, we’ll be dropping our Fall episode of The Android Show, on YouTube and on developer.android.com! This time, we’ll be live from Droidcon London, where we’ll be unpacking some

Posted by Luke Hopkins, Developer Relations EngineerSamsung Galaxy XR is here, powered by Android XR! This blog post is part of our Android XR Spotlight Week, where we provide resources—blog posts, videos, sample code, and more—all designed to help you learn, build, and prepare your

Posted by Luke Hopkins - Developer Relations Engineer Samsung Galaxy XR is here, powered by Android XR! This blog post is part of our Android XR Spotlight Week, where we provide resources—blog posts, videos, sample code, and more—all designed to help you learn, build, and

ReferencesSplash screens | Views | Android DevelopersApp startup time | App quality | Android DevelopersThe Android Lifecycle cheat sheet — part IV : ViewModels, Translucent Activities and Launch Modes | by Jose AlcérrecaSlow rendering | App quality | Android DevelopersLow-memory killer daemon (lmkd) | Android

A person seen from behind, wearing the Samsung Galaxy XR headset, sits at a desk and interacts with three floating spatial windows: an immersive video of a city, Google Maps, and a Chrome browser.

This article was written by an external contributor. When it comes to writing short scripts or CRUDs, Python is a great choice. With its rich ecosystem and broad adoption, it can be easily used to scrape some data or to perform data analysis. However, maintaining

Posted by Dereck Bridie, Developer Relations EngineerSamsung Galaxy XR is here, powered by Android XR! This blog post is part of our Android XR Spotlight Week, where we provide resources—blog posts, videos, sample code, and more—all designed to help you learn, build, and prepare your

Posted by Matthew McCullough, Vice President, Product Management, Android Developer The first device powered by Android XR is here: engineered by Samsung, Galaxy XR, is available now, putting the possibilities of immersive experiences directly into users' hands. With this launch, the Android XR platform, built

Posted by Jan Kleinert, Android Developer Relations Engineer and Bradley Allen, Android Technical Writer Samsung Galaxy XR is here, and it's the first device powered by Android XR! Since we launched the developer preview of the platform last December, developers have started building apps and

Understanding Jetpack Compose Beyond UI When most of us think of Jetpack Compose, we automatically think of UI. I remember hearing Jake Wharton mention that I wanted to deepen my understanding of how Compose really works under the hood. I felt that writing a DI

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

We recently released Koog 0.5.0, introducing full Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol support, which makes it easier than ever to build systems of interconnected AI agents in Kotlin. But A2A is just the beginning. Koog 0.5.0 brings a host of improvements that make agents more persistent, tools

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

Jetpack Compose: Static vs Dynamic , the problem isn’t which function to pick — the problem is your design. Narrow the scope, split the locals, or push the state down. In short: don’t choose based on how often the data changes — choose based on

Jetpack Compose is a modern Android UI development with its declarative approach and powerful state management primitives. While remember{} served us well for preserving state across recompositions, it has a fundamental limitation: it can't survive configuration changes or navigation transitions. Enter retain{}, a new way