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Android Studio Panda 3 | 2025.3.3 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

Tracy is an open-source Kotlin library that adds production-grade observability to AI-powered applications in minutes. It helps you debug failures, measure execution time, and track LLM usage across model calls, tool calls, and your own custom application logic. Ultimately, comprehensive observability ensures you have the

Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza, PM Director, Games on Google Play Last September, we shared our vision for the future of Google Play Games grounded in a core belief: the best way to drive your game’s success is to deliver a world-class player experience. We

Posted by Aurash Mahbod, VP and GM, Games on Google Play Google Play is proud to be the home of over 200,000 games—many of which defined the mobile-first era. But as cross-platform becomes the standard for players, we are evolving our ecosystem to match the

In my measurements, all variants stayed below the red line, but AGSL Runtime RenderEffect was the slowest. The Canvas renderer performed best and stayed closer to the green line, (even with additional costs enabled (either clipPath or full-screen Difference blend via offscreen graphicsLayer for UI

Posted by Yabin Cui, Software Engineer We are the Android LLVM toolchain team. One of our top priorities is to improve Android performance through optimization techniques in the LLVM ecosystem. We are constantly searching for ways to make Android faster, smoother, and more efficient. While

See the complete and full code reference in my Github here Getting Started of Building Your Clean Architecture Android Studio Plugin was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

If we were starting today, we’d probably write bridge.js in TypeScript and compile it down. The current file is vanilla ES5 for maximum compatibility (some WebViews are old), and the var declarations and for loops are a little painful to look at. Then again, zero

Android Studio Panda 3 | 2025.3.3 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

As Android development moves toward Jetpack Compose, managing UI state and business logic becomes more important than ever. Many developers struggle with keeping UI code clean while handling complex logic. When UI and logic are mixed together, the code becomes difficult to maintain and test.

If you’ve ever built a design tool, a photo editor, or an accessibility utility for Android, you’ve likely run into a frustrating limitation: How do you let a user pick a color from Now you can use the AndroidEngineers Mobile app too Android — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.lily.dmqkk

Android’s Gradle build system is extremely powerful — and frequently misunderstood. A common architectural mistake is placing environment logic (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod) inside buildTypes. While this may work initially, it breaks separation of concerns and becomes difficult to scale. A clean, production-ready setup clearly

*not really Personally, I like it. It does feel a bit hacky though for something that should just work™. ViewModel was also made KMP compatible, which is great — but it still carries a lot of pre-compose baggage, having been retrofitted into KMP after the

Deep links feel like navigation. Security-wise, they’re public entry points into your app. Android’s own security guidance treats unsafe deep link handling as a real, exploitable vulnerability class. If your deep link:opens privileged screensauto-executes actionstrusts query parametersroutes into WebViewsor relies on “user must have come

If you have been building Android apps with Jetpack Compose since its early days, you likely share a specific memory: the pure joy of building reactive UIs, abruptly followed by the friction of string-based navigation routes. While the core Compose UI framework was modern and

We obsess over clean architecture, reactive UIs, and robust testing, but often treat our release process like a messy, secretive script we’re afraid to touch. If you’ve ever experienced that pit in your stomach right after clicking “Rollout” on the Play Console — wondering, arbitrary

Posted by Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya, Developer Relations Engineer (LinkedIn and X) In the dynamic world of social media, user attention is won or lost quickly. Meta apps (Facebook and Instagram) are among the world's largest social platforms and serve billions of users globally. For Meta,

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer We want to make it faster and easier for you to build high-quality Android apps, and one way we’re helping you be more productive is by putting AI at your fingertips. We know you want

Posted by Alice Yuan, Senior Developer Relations Engineer In recognition that excessive battery drain is top of mind for Android users, Google has been taking significant steps to help developers build more power-efficient apps. On March 1st, 2026, Google Play Store began rolling out the

Building an Android app for a wearable means the real work starts when the screen turns off. WHOOP helps members understand how their body responds to training, recovery, sleep, and stress, and for the many WHOOP members on Android, reliable background syncing and connectivity are

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Posted by Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem Android has always driven innovation in the industry through its unique flexibility and openness. At this important moment, we want to continue leading the way in how developers distribute their apps and games to people on billions

Posted by Francesco Romano, Senior Developer Relations Engineer on Android We are excited to announce a major milestone in bringing mobile and desktop computing closer together on Android: connected display support has reached general availability with the Android 16 QPR3 release! As shown at Google

Android Studio Panda 2 | 2025.3.2 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

Posted by Matt Dyor, Senior Product Manager Android Studio Panda 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This release brings new agentic capabilities to Android Studio, enabling the agent to create an entire working application from scratch with the AI-powered

At the Android Avenue, attendees of MWC Barcelona can experience the latest AI features through hands-on demos on the newest devices and prototype glasses.

Android Studio Panda 3 | 2025.3.3 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

Launching soon for Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26 Series, you can offload multi-step tasks to Gemini.

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