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Conclusion The key to a high-performance media application is anticipation. By leveraging Media3’s DownloadManager, you can move beyond simple playback caching to a proactive preloading strategy. This allows your application to start downloading the first few videos of a feed in the background — even

Understand the benefits of modularization for large teams. Deep dive into the technical details, using the API-Implementation pattern.

Android Studio Panda 2 | 2025.3.2 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

Jetpack Compose and Server-Driven UI (SDUI) User interface (UI) development in Android has evolved dramatically in recent years. With the introduction of Jetpack Compose, building UIs has become more intuitive, declarative, and powerful. Meanwhile, the concept of Server-Driven UI (SDUI) has gained traction, enabling interfaces

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Phalene Gowling, Product Manager, Google PlayTo build a thriving business on Google Play, you need more than just data – you need a clear path to action. Today, we’re announcing a suite of upgrades to the Google Play Console and beyond, giving you greater visibility

An Android & Backend Architecture Reality Check For years, mobile security advice has included the same line: TLS decryption In these scenarios, attackers bypass pinning by:Hooking certificate validation functionsOverriding TrustManager or OkHttp logicModifying app bytecodeExtracting session tokens directly from memory At this point, TLS is

In Android development, handling sensitive data such as API keys, client secrets, cryptographic material, and access tokens is a security-critical responsibility. Any secret shipped inside an Android application should be assumed extractable under sufficient effort. APKs can be decompiled, memory can be inspected, and runtime

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Automated Prompt Optimization (APO)To further help bring your ML Kit Prompt API use cases to production, we are excited to announce Automated Prompt Optimization (APO) targeting On-Device models on Vertex AI. Automated Prompt Optimization is a tool that helps you automatically find the optimal prompt

Master dynamic height Top App Bars in Jetpack Compose. Build flexible, reactive headers that go beyond the limitations of standard Material 3 components.The Problem with Standard App Bars Material3’s ) while maintaining complete control over the visual presentation. This approach is perfect for profile screens,

Android Studio Panda 2 | 2025.3.2 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

Posted by Roxanna Aliabadi Walker, Product Manager and Yacine Rezgui, Developer Relations EngineerThe Embedded Photo Picker: A more seamless way to privately request photos and videos in your app Get ready to enhance your app's user experience with an exciting new way to use the

Posted by Prateek Batra, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Adaptive Apps Beyond Phones: How JioHotstar Built an Adaptive UX JioHotstar is a leading streaming platform in India, serving a user base exceeding 400 million. With a vast content library encompassing over 330,000 hours of video on

Link to GitHub: AnimatedBackground.ktSummary Shaders are an incredibly powerful tool — but only when used for the right problems. In this article, I explored AGSL through fractals as a way to understand how shaders really behave on Android. Rendering the Mandelbrot and Julia sets showed

Displaying a list of items has always been a part of user interfaces. We can see it in almost every app, but it comes with some challenges to the user experience, like waiting for new items to load after scrolling or seeing a janky, unresponsive

Supporting Longevity through Faster Diagnostics Posted by Rachel S, Android Product Manager Trade-in mode: faster assessment of a factory-reset phone or tablet, bypassing setup wizard, a new feature on Android 16 and above.Supporting device longevityAndroid is committed to making devices last longer. With device longevity

Every Compose developer chains modifiers. It’s second nature: you need padding, a background, maybe a clip, then make the item clickable. Easy. But here’s the twist: the order of those modifiers can make the this massive, invisible clickable area. And in the end, we are

Posted by Georgia Doyle, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, and Kanu Tibrewal, Software Engineer We’ve launched a new Save for later feature on Google Play Console’s Publishing overview to give you more control over when you send changes for review. In the past, changes

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Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop | 2025.2.3 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

Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Senior Product Manager and Trevor Johns, Developer Relations Engineer We are excited to announce that Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop is now stable! This feature-packed release brings a huge update to your agentic workflows in Android Studio, and offers you

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Posted by Amrit Sanjeev, Developer Relations Engineer and Trevor Johns, Developer Relations Engineer Ultrahuman is a consumer health-tech startup that provides daily well-being insights to users based on biometric data from the company’s wearables, like the RING Air and the M1 Live Continuous Glucose Monitor

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