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Posted by Meghan Mehta, Android Developer Relations Engineer Today, the Jetpack Compose April ‘26 release is stable. This release contains version 1.11 of core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping), shared element debug tools, trackpad events, and more. We also have a few experimental

Posted by Niharika Arora, Senior Developer Relations Engineer and Jean-Pierre Pralle, Product Manager, Credential Manager In the modern digital landscape, the first encounter a user has with an app is often the most critical. Yet, for decades, this initial interaction has been hindered by the

For years, the evolution of Android development has been a journey toward more visual, integrated, and heavy-duty IDEs. We moved from simple editors to the powerhouse that is Android Studio. But as we enter the era of Generative AI, a surprising old friend is making

In Part 1, we built Mom, a party-planning agent with tools, a custom strategy, and a personality. In Part 2, we graduated to a multi-phase research agent using subgraphs, history compression, and structured output. Our researcher can break down a topic, investigate sub-questions, and produce

I honestly struggled to name this concept. You could call it a plugin system, an auto service, or an automatic mechanism for attaching “services” to Activities/Fragments. In this article, I’ll call it Component Service — an approach that lets you extend UI without modifying the

At this stage, Navigation 3 only retains the ViewModelStorefor entries that are part of the active backstack. If you swap the entire stack, the previous state may not be maintained in the way you’d expect from the old Navigation Component. While using multiple ViewModels for

Android Studio Panda 4 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). Otherwise,

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplatform applications for mobile, desktop, web, and backend

Posted by Matt Dyor, Senior Product Manager Android Studio Panda 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This release brings Planning Mode, Next Edit Prediction, and more, making it easier than ever to build high-quality Android apps. Here’s a deep

This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is no longer a sustainable use of capital. This approach systematically

And here we’ve encountered a fundamental reality of digital graphics called Anti-Aliasing. When you tell DrawScope to draw a line with a strokeWidth of 1px at an exact coordinate (say x = 10.0), the renderer centers the stroke on that coordinate. This means half a

Posted by Thomas Ezan, Senior Developer Relations Engineer If you are an Android developer looking to implement innovative AI features into your app, we recently launched powerful new updates: Hybrid inference, a new API for Firebase AI Logic to leverage both on-device and Cloud inference,

Android Studio Quail 1 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

Spring AI is the application-facing integration layer you may already use. Koog is the next layer up when you need agent orchestration. Spring AI already covers the chat model API, chat memory, and vector storage for RAG, and it provides Spring Boot starters with auto-configuration.

Posted by Dan Galpin, Developer Relations Engineer Android 17 has reached beta 4, the last scheduled beta of this release cycle, a critical milestone for app compatibility and platform stability. Whether you're fine-tuning your app's user experience, ensuring smooth edge-to-edge rendering, or leveraging the newest

Posted by Adarsh Fernando, Group Product Manager and Esteban de la Canal, Senior Staff Software Engineer As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, tools, and LLMs you use for app development. Whether you are using Gemini in Android Studio,

Posted by Bennet Manuel, Group Product Manager, App & Ecosystem Trust We strive to make Google Play the safest and most trusted experience possible. Today, we’re announcing a new set of policy updates and an account transfer feature to boost user privacy and protect your

Google I/O 2026: Livestream Schedule Revealed Posted by The Google I/O team The Google I/O schedule is here! Tune in May 19–20 as we unveil Google’s biggest updates across AI, Android, Chrome, and Cloud. Discover new tools and features designed to unlock the future of

Dokka V2 for KMP LibrariesLeveraging Dokka v2.2.0 for Seamless Documentation in Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries. It was only a couple of weeks ago that JetBrains’ Kotlin released Dokka’s new and improved v2.2.0, which now properly supports Android’s Gradle Library Plugin for KMP, among other important updates.

The goal of this article is to prevent issues and highlight non-obvious aspects of screenshot testing in the context of Android. It also provides a deep dive into how it can work and how I implemented it at my project. Disclaimer. This article is not

Android Studio Panda 4 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

Android Studio Panda 3 Patch 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

Posted by Steven Jenkins, Product Manager, Android Studio Testing multi-device interactions is now easier than ever with the Android Emulator. Whether you are building a multiplayer game, extending your mobile application across form factors, or launching virtual devices that require a device connection, the Android

webSocketSession.send("call someone") sends raw bytes over a persistent connection. That's it. No routing, no subscriptions, no message types. When you're building a voice call signaling system that handles incoming calls, WebRTC negotiation, and call state events simultaneously — raw WebSocket becomes a routing nightmare you

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6. Keep minSdk = 24 Do not increase minSdk to 33 just for shaders. Use isShaderAvailable() at runtime and provide a fallback for older Android versions.Summary You now have a clean, reusable shader abstraction that:Works on Android 13+, iOS, Desktop (Windows/macOS/Linux), and Web (WASM/JS) from

Android Studio Panda 4 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 Updates on

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Android Studio Panda 4 | 2025.3.4 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

Android Studio Panda 3 | 2025.3.3 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