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Build a Concurrent Camera App with CameraX + Jetpack Compose — Part 4: Live Draggable Primary/PiP Swap Mid-Recording (GLES + MediaCodec)What we wanted Three things, all at once:Live primary/PiP swap — tap, big feed and small feed flip, mid-record, no UI hiccupOne MP4 — the

Build a Concurrent Camera App with CameraX + Jetpack Compose — Part 3: Duel Concurrent Camera RecordingThe wrong ways first Before you write a line of dual-camera code, it’s worth being clear about what . Mid-recording rebind is blocked on purpose — it would create

For the past few years, mobile AI integration has mostly looked like an advanced game of telephone: an app takes user text, ships it off to a cloud API, receives a response, and renders it on screen. While helpful, this single-track, text-in, text-out paradigm falls

Why I Stopped Trusting the Android Profiler Alone (and the Production-Grade Strategy We Use Instead) Stop optimizing for the lab. A production-ready blueprint using Jetpack Macrobenchmarks, Perfetto, and real-world telemetry at scale.Perfetto vs. Android Studio Profiler To understand why we use different tools for different

The orchestrator understands the request and plans the workflow.Step 2 — On-Device Agent Accesses Local Documents Instead of uploading sensitive files to the cloud: 📄 Booking confirmations 📧 Emails 🧾 PDFs are processed directly on-device using Gemini Nano. This keeps user data private.Step 3 —

Modularization isolates your modules — this is how you make them work together againContinue reading on ProAndroidDev »

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 uses either IDE – some prefer VS Code. Kotlin

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.

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

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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