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Posted by Rob Orgiu, Developer Relations Engineer, Adaptive Apps, Android Adaptive app development is fundamental on Android, but making sure everything looks good and every feature works the way it should require multiple tests on multiple devices. Or does it? Well, yes… and no! While

I spend a lot of my working day inside Android Studio. And over the last year, one thing has changed significantly: Gemini has gone from being something I occasionally opened to something that is now part of my everyday Android development workflow. I use it

The bug report arrived with a screen recording and no reproduction rate. Someone on the team had been checking the demo build of our short-video SDK. Publish a clip, get redirected to the grid, wait until the upload progress bar climbed somewhere between 30 and

Our local AI companion is no longer just a text generator, it is now fully equipped with native hands and feet, ready to safely manipulate our codebase directly within our local environment. And the best part? The execution of these Android skills happens entirely on

Wiring it up is supposed to be almost boring. Compose Hot Reload has shipped bundled-by-default since CMP 1.10.0 for any project with a desktop target, so there’s no separate plugin to add. You drop one file in the project root:{ "mcpServers": { "compose-hot-reload": { "command":

sign in? Because nothing kills a first open like a login wall in mobile apps. Users start anonymously by default, no account, no friction, and can attach a real account later without losing their data. For most first apps, anonymous sign in is all you

In part 1 we wired up Google Sign-in on Kotlin/Wasm with hand-rolled bindings over the Firebase JS SDK. Following the same path as my Kotlin/JS series, part 2 is Apple. The good news up front: if you have the part 1 setup, the Wasm side

Back in my Kotlin/JS auth series I promised that if anyone needed a guide for integrating Firebase authentication with Kotlin/Wasm, I’d make time to create one. Well, a promise is a promise. And just like that series, this one exists because I expected it to

ReferencesWhat's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release | Android Developers' BlogSelectionState | API reference | Android Developers Mastering Jetpack Compose’s New SelectionState API was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

A nightly detekt run went red across 21 modules. The report claimed 42 of our casts could never succeed. One of them was a cast from FrameLayout.LayoutParams to ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams. FrameLayout.LayoutParams extends MarginLayoutParams. That cast cannot fail. A static analysis tool was telling us the impossible

In Android, recreating this effect has historically been challenging, particularly when managing back stack navigation and transition state. However, with the arrival of Navigation 3 (Nav3) and its declarative SceneStrategy model, building custom overlay stack hierarchies in Jetpack Compose becomes much cleaner and more extensible.

Android Studio Rabbit 1 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

Posted by Niharika Arora, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Google and Mayank Manuja, Android Engineer, Meta WhatsApp is the world's largest messaging platform, serving billions of users globally. It is the default communication tool for people across diverse regions, connecting users

Posted by Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, GM, Google Play Developer & Monetization Maintaining a healthy Android ecosystem is a shared commitment where every app and game has a role to play. To help you deliver the premium experiences users expect, Google Play is introducing two new

Android Studio Quail 4 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 Ron Aquino, Senior Director, Trust & Safety, Chrome, Android, and Play At Google Play, user safety and developer success go hand in hand. We continue to see growth in apps with AI generated features, and indeed, adding generative AI into your apps is

Posted by Markus Vill, Software Engineer, Sean Keys, Security Engineer, and Istvan Nador, Software Engineer, Android Auto At Google, we believe our products should be secure by design, which is why we built the Android Automotive Operating System for Software Defined Vehicle (AAOS SDV) on

Developed in partnership with the Deaf community, sign-to-text translates ASL into text in real time.

Android Studio Rabbit 1 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 Blair Harmon, Director of Product Management, Android Platform A great user experience is central to Android's mission, and delivering on that promise requires keeping devices fast, responsive, and reliable. This is why memory optimization is more critical than ever. Across the ecosystem, new

Gemini in Chrome is now available to all Android users in the U.S.

Posted by Ajesh R Pai, Developer Relations Engineer, Ulises Uriel Verduzco Diaz, Software Engineer, Tinder, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager Tinder is on a mission to power and inspire real connections by making meeting easy and fun for every new generation of singles. However,

Posted by Amy Zeppenfeld, Developer Relations Engineer, Greg Underwood, Software Engineering Manager, Yasmine Evjen, Senior Product Manager, Android XR Since introducing the Android XR SDK, developers have transformed their ideas into innovative, immersive experiences for XR headsets and wired XR glasses. As the ecosystem expands,

Android Studio Rabbit 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

Android Studio Quail 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

Sharing between Android devices is even easier, starting with Pixel. Use Quick Share and tap to send contact info and more.

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Made by Google expands what's possible across the Android ecosystem. With the introduction of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, and the entire

Posted by Chiara Chiappini, Developer Relation Engineer, Android Developer Relations One-handed gestures offer a convenient and touch-free way for users to interact with their watches, enabling them to perform key actions using only the hand on which the device is worn. First introduced on Pixel

Android Studio Quail 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

Android Studio Quail 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