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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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The best first architecture test is usually not clever. It is a rule the team already believes:Feature implementation modules must not depend on sibling feature implementation modules. That rule is concrete. It is easy to explain. It is painful when broken. It also exercises the

The 120Hz Trap: Debugging Infinite Recomposition and Silent Deep Link Failures on ColorOS was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

If :feature:checkout:impl adds this dependency:implementation ( project ( ":feature:profile:impl" )) the build may still pass. The immediate feature may even ship faster. But the module graph now says checkout is coupled to profile internals. That has practical consequences:A profile implementation change can force more downstream

Typical rules:Public domain APIs should not expose database entities or network DTOs.Public feature API packages should expose contracts and stable models, not implementation classes.Persistence or framework annotations should not leak into clean business interfaces.Library modules should keep implementation packages internal unless they are intentionally public.

I’m a mobile engineer who ships AI products, open to staff/principal roles, remote US or hybrid Sacramento/Bay Area. Find me on LinkedIn. I Stopped Eyeballing LLM Output and Started Scoring It Like a Unit Test was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are

A real debugging technique using an AOSP emulator Activities are one of the fundamental building blocks of an Android application. Every app has at least one activity as its entry point. While ActivityNotFoundException is easy to fix, reproducing it during development can be surprisingly difficult.

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

Posted by Zoe Lopez-Latorre, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Back in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Our goal was to provide transparency around model capabilities in Android development and to encourage model improvements, to give you more helpful