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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

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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.

Try it yourself If you’d like to explore the implementation or use JellyFab in your own project: Source code: https://github.com/iprashantpanwar/JellyFab JitPack: https://jitpack.io/#iprashantpanwar/JellyFab If you enjoyed this deep dive, you might also like my previous article: Morphing Blobs with Jetpack Compose: From Circle to Organic Waves

By Senior Software Engineer @ Google1. The Micro-Economics of Gradle Build Graphs At five developers, your build system is invisible. At 50+ developers across 10 distinct feature squads, your Gradle build graph is either an accelerator or your single largest payroll drain. Most Android teams

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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ML Kit gives you Google’s models. MediaPipe gives you the pipeline. In Part 1 we reached for ML Kit because it’s turnkey: add a dependency, pass an InputImage, get a structured result. That covers a huge slice of everyday mobile AI. But every team eventually

The loop, live Here’s an agent (OpenCode, GLM-5.2) working it from that one line: The agent went from a 127-node over-count at the root of a complex middlegame to one illegal move, confirmed the hypothesis against the second oracle’s output, and undid precisely the rule

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

Posted by Steph Pio, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Google Play EMEA Sub-Saharan Africa is home to some of the world’s most creative storytelling. To help bring those stories to a global audience, today, we’re proud to announce the debut of Google Play’s Indie Games Fund in

Android Studio Quail 3 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 Updates on

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Posted by Tibian Elsheikh, Product Manager, Android Core Graphics and Jeffrey Jose, Product Manager, Android Core Graphics We’ve all been there: You’re scrolling through your favorite social media feed in a dim room, and suddenly an HDR video pops up. It’s so intensely bright that

Android Studio Quail 3 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

Posted by Paul Feng, Vice President, Google Play Eng, Product, UX At Google Play, we are committed to delivering the best possible experience to users, while ensuring developers have the tools and adaptability to succeed. Guided by this commitment, earlier this year we announced updates

Android Studio Quail 3 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

Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety July 15, 2026: Updated Play Console requirements for Play developers To meet Android developer verification and updated Play Console Requirements, Play developers must register their Play apps in Play Console. While 99% of apps on

Posted by Coco Fatus, UX Designer, Alon Hetzroni, UX Engineer, Azin Mehrnoosh, Product Manager Android XR At this year's Google I/O, we announced an update for spatial experiences: the Geospatial API is now available as a preview in ARCore for Jetpack XR. By bringing Google's

Android Studio Quail 2 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 1 Patch 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