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Posted by Andrei Shikov, Senior Software Engineer, Android Toolkit and Jonathan Starup, Software Engineer, R8 Team Starting from AGP 9.2.0, R8 optimizes most Atomic*FieldUpdater calls into Unsafe variants that perform 2x to 4x better on common operations. This has a particularly large impact on the

Is retain the beginning of the end for ViewModel? Let's find out.No Android dependency -> Just Kotlin.Does this replace ViewModel? Not entirely -> ViewModel still provides several useful capabilities:viewModelScopeSavedStateHandleNavigation integrationHilt supportLifecycle-aware cleanup If your screen relies on those features, ViewModel is still the right choice.retain

A practical roadmap for Android developers A practical roadmap for Android developers — from your first emulator to spatial UI, 3D content, perception, and intelligent glasses Android development is no longer limited to the rectangular screen in your hand. With Android XR, developers can build

How Many Trees Does Your Framework Need? was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

with Claude Science and AOSP There’s a lot of excitement around customization, personalization, accessibility, and giving people more control over how interfaces adapt to their needs. I’m interested in what happens underneath, and dark mode hides a surprising amount of engineering. A dark theme is

One of the first things you’ll probably do when adopting Navigation 3 is register every destination directly inside entryProvider. For small projects, that’s a perfectly reasonable place to start.NavDisplay( backStack = backStack, entryProvider = entryProvider { entry { HomeScreen() } entry { DetailScreen() } entry

Final thoughts This was mostly a learning exercise, taking one small feature and building it two ways to feel the trade-offs. The cloud version got me a flexible feature quickly while the on-device version provides privacy, offline support, and determinism, at the cost of some

Android Studio Quail 4 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

Android Studio Quail 2 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 Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager and Miguel Montemayor, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Experience Today at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung unveiled its latest lineup of foldable and wearable devices. For developers, this means that the variety of form factors, screen sizes, and device postures

One Badge, Three Deliveries: How Android, Flutter, and Compose Keep Your UI in SyncOne Tap, Three Threads: Where Does the Work Actually Run? One Tap, Three Machines: How Android Views, Flutter, and Compose Actually Render Your UI was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where

A new migration experience built directly into Android 17 that lets you transfer more data wirelessly from an iPhone.

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Posted by Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang, Senior Developer Relations Engineers, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our

Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post, we explored

Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Building GenAI features in your app usually means navigating through various models, APIs and architecture choices: Execution location: Where does your model run? On device, in the cloud, or both? Complexity: How complex is

Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we introduced Jetpacker,

Android Studio Quail 3 RC 2 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

Posted by Wei Wang, Engineering Manager, Android BeTo User privacy and transparency are core to the Android experience. To better align with these principles, we are updating the default behavior of the Nearby Connections API regarding how it interacts with device radios. What is changing?

Two Simple ADB Commands That Saved My Android Apps From State Restoration Nightmares The high-level API is concise:NavDisplay( backStack = backStack, entryDecorators = decorators, entryProvider = entryProvider { ... } ) The conversion from NavBackStack to NavEntry is hidden. With the low-level API:val entries =

with kotlin-native-nuget plugin, you can bring your Kotlin to C# idiomaticallyhttps://medium.com/media/0f185efc67390bbf440bfc33f5675f42/href A little while ago, I gave a talk where I tried to take a library written in Kotlin and hand it to a .NET developer as a NuGet package. By hand. It is 30

ART broke our debugging — so we fixed it with a hook while the real fix rides the mainline train was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Android Studio Quail 4 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

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Android Studio Quail 3 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 Quail 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 macOS). Otherwise,

Posted by Amman Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production, bringing a shift to your IDE with concurrent agentic workflows, natively integrated memory leak profiling, and context-aware crash remediation. Whether you are

Android Studio Quail 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 Updates on

Android Studio Quail 2 RC 2 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