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Android Studio Quail 2 Canary 6 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 Alice Yuan, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, Arti Arutiunov, Product Manager at Datadog and Nikolay Martynov, Staff Software Engineer at Datadog Performance regressions are notoriously hard to reproduce, making regressions a massive bottleneck for mobile developers. Although signals like ANR rates indicate what

The word “agent” now means two different things in Android, and they are easy to mix up. One is the AI that helps you write your code. The other is the AI you ship inside your app for your users. Google has just released tooling

In developing Upnext, my open-source TV series manager application, I have navigated several shifts in Jetpack Compose navigation. Recently, I shared my experience migrating from third-party annotation-based libraries to the official strongly typed navigation contracts in Navigation 2.8. But as modern Android developers, we always

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Android Studio Quail 2 Canary 5 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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While app performance is often equated with a smooth UI and fast start times, memory serves as the silent foundation upon which these visible metrics are built. It's no secret that we're seeing a shift where device memory is more important than ever. Not only

A truly differentiated Android experience is about delivering premium delight wherever your users are. At Google I/O ‘26, we showcased how the latest advancements in the Android ecosystem can help you elevate your app's quality while maximizing development efficiency. To help you build apps that

Android Studio Quail 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 macOS). Otherwise,

Optimize, Shrink, and Obfuscate Your Android App: The Modern R8 Guide From ProGuard to R8 Full Mode — how to slash your APK size and keep your code secure in modern Android development. It’s been five years since I first wrote about optimizing and shrinking

When building infotainment systems on Android Automotive OS, one problem surfaces repeatedly: you need to display UI from one app inside another. A phone widget in the launcher, a media card in the cluster, embedded content from a third-party app inside your OEM shell. Sounds

Every experienced Android developer has spent hours wrestling with state restoration. We’ve been conditioned to split this responsibility into a dual-engine system: rememberSaveable for the UI layer and SavedStateHandle for the ViewModel layer. Both hook into Android’s volatile Bundle mechanism to survive Configuration Changes and

Securing Your Android App in Jetpack Compose: From FLAG_SECURE to Keystore Encryption was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Android Studio Quail 2 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 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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Flutter Vs React Native Vs Xamarin Vs Compose Multiplatform: Choosing the Right Framework for Mobile App Development Choosing a framework for mobile app development often depends on factors like development speed, community support, performance, and project requirements. In this article, we’ll compare Flutter, React Native,

Posted by Jingyu Shi, Staff Developer Relations Engineer At Google I/O 2026, we introduced Android’s shift from an operating system to an intelligence system. We also demonstrated how you can build intelligent experiences natively with the system and bring the power of Google’s AI into

So I started building my own tool for it, a visual editor for Scalable UI that exports RRO projects directly from a layout design. You place TaskPanels on a canvas, switch between Variants to define states, and tweak Transitions, all with live preview. One click

Android Studio Quail 1 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

A practical first look at Google’s new Jetpack API for exposing on-device app capabilities as tools an agent like Gemini can call.Introduction Google just shipped the first public docs and the first usable alpha of AppFunctions, a Jetpack library paired with a new Android platform

Testing a pure-Kotlin UIModel without android framework dependencies. No Dispatchers.setMain(), no Robolectric, no mocks. In Part 1, we pulled all UI logic out of the traditional Android ViewModel and moved it into a pure Kotlin implementation of an UDF UIModel interface. For context, the interface

Android Studio Quail 2 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 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 1 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

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Android Halo brings intelligence from your agent right to your status bar.

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer Today at Google I/O, we announced the many ways we’re powering agentic workflows to increase your productivity and ensure your apps shine across the expanding Android ecosystem. Here’s a recap of 17 of our favorite announcements

Posted by Emma-Louise Leavey, Group Product Manager and Mike Taylor-Cai, Product Manager Starting today Google AI Studio can build entire Android apps for you in minutes from just a prompt. You don't need to install any software or configure any libraries, which significantly lowers the