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Android Studio Quail 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 > Check for Updates on

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how software gets built, Kotlin’s growing

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as something that has to be

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer works there every day. Some prefer VS Code, or

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Developers describe working in Kotlin in a fairly consistent way: more

Build a Concurrent Camera App with CameraX + Jetpack Compose — Part 2: Photo & Video Capture with Scoped StorageScoped-Storage Constraint On modern Android, apps can’t write to arbitrary directories on shared storage. Everything goes through MediaStore, which decides the actual on-disk location. The trade-off:

Build a Concurrent Camera with CameraX + Jetpack Compose — Part 1: Preview, Zoom, Flash, PermissionsDependencies gradle/libs.versions.toml[versions] camerax = "1.6.0-alpha02" accompanistPermissions = "0.37.3" hilt = "2.57.2" [libraries] androidx-camera-core = { group = "androidx.camera", name = "camera-core", version.ref = "camerax" } androidx-camera-camera2 = { group =

Cold flows re-run, hot flows replay, and channels store until consumedIntroduction Flows are a powerful feature of the Kotlin language, built on top of coroutines. However, there is significant confusion, especially among new developers using flows, about how flows emit their values to multiple collectors.

Everything that changed for the people who actually ship Android apps — Android CLI, Compose-first, Android 17, Googlebook, XR DP4, AppFunctions, and the new Play Console. If you watched the main Google I/O 2026 keynote on May 19 expecting Android news, you probably came away

17 Things Every Android Developer Needs to KnowWidgets Are Becoming More Important Widgets are evolving dramatically. Google announced:Better Glance supportRemoteComposeAdaptive widgetsWidget animationsWidgets for carsBetter large-screen support Widgets are now a core Android ecosystem strategy.Final Thoughts 💚 Google I/O 2026 wasn’t just another Android release cycle.

☝️ Pay attention to the fact that when using this new API and selecting multiple contacts, it returns a single Session URI that represents your entire selection, rather than a list of individual URIsRollout Since Android 17 is not out yet and users are probably

You’re Spawning Too Many Coroutines (And Your App Is Paying the Price) was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Android Studio Quail 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 Updates on

Android Studio Quail 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 on

The image shows black Google intelligent eyewear frames by Gentle Monster and dark green black Google intelligent eyewear frames by Warby Parker. There are also icons for several apps, as well as examples of intelligent eyewear displays.

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References Official Specifications:RFC 8446: TLS 1.3RFC 9000: QUIC Transport ProtocolRFC 9114: HTTP/3 Performance Benchmarks: 4. gRPC Mobile Benchmarks — Google (2016) 5. Measuring HTTP/3 Real-World Performance — Internet Society (2023) 6. Benchmarking Protobuf vs JSON — data shape analysis (2026) Libraries & Documentation: 7. OkHttp

How to share business logic across form factors while crafting tailored UI experiences using Jetpack Compose, Wear OS, and the Car App Library. Architecture looks perfect on a whiteboard, but production is where the physics of the hardware starts to bite back. If we take

Build route-scoped ViewModels using NavKey and AssistedInject for cleaner, compile-time-safe Compose navigation@HiltViewModel(assistedFactory = DetailViewModel.Factory::class) class DetailViewModel @AssistedInject constructor( @Assisted private val key: Detail, // dynamic private val repository: UserRepository // static ) : ViewModel() { private val _state = MutableStateFlow(null) val state: StateFlow = _state

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer Today at Google I/O, we announced the many ways we’re powering agentic workflows to increase your productivity and ensure your apps shine across the expanding Android ecosystem. Here’s a recap of 17 of our favorite announcements

Posted by Emma-Louise Leavey, Group Product Manager and Mike Taylor-Cai, Product Manager Starting today Google AI Studio can build entire Android apps for you in minutes from just a prompt. You don't need to install any software or configure any libraries, which significantly lowers the

Posted by Paul Lammertsma, Developer Relations Engineer With over 300 million monthly active devices across Google TV and Android TV, it’s clear that the living room is a massive, distinct platform for apps to accelerate growth. Today, we’re excited to share Google TV features and

Posted by Simona Milanovic and Ben Trengrove, Developer Relations Engineers As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, tools, command-line interfaces (CLI), and LLMs you use for app development. Whether you use Gemini in Android Studio, Antigravity 2.0, Antigravity CLI,

Posted by Android XR Team The Android XR ecosystem is expanding, and we’re committed to supporting developers who will build its next great experiences. Today, we’re opening applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program, a dedicated initiative to accelerate the development of Android XR

Posted Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, Adaptive Apps With the release of Android 17, we are transitioning into an adaptive first development standard. Your users no longer rely on a single form factor; they transition between phones, foldables, tablets, laptops, automotive displays, and immersive XR

Posted by Stevan Silva, Group Product Manager and Amy Zeppenfeld, Developer Relations Engineer Today we're excited to launch Developer Preview 4 of the Android XR SDK, continuing our focus on unifying cross-device development for headsets, wired XR glasses, and intelligent eyewear. To keep our platform

Posted by Luke Hopkins, Android Developer Relations Engineer for OpenXR & Ryan Bartley, Android XR Product Manager Today, we are excited to announce that official support for Unreal Engine and Godot has arrived for Android XR. Alongside these engine expansions, we are also launching new

By Simon Cooke, Developer Relations Engineer (X) and Mayank Jain, Product Manager (X) What is Android Performance Analyzer? Android Performance Analyzer (APA) is Android’s new profiler and performance analysis tool for the Android mobile ecosystem. APA is intended as a profiling tool for any developer

Posted by Matthew Warner, Google Product Manager This year at Google I/O we are going beyond iterative changes, towards a fundamental shift in how apps are built. Our newest tools are built for the agentic era with features that boost productivity for you as an

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll see this project structure in newly created projects