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Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer We want to make it faster and easier for you to build high-quality Android apps, and one way we’re helping you be more productive is by putting AI at your fingertips. We know you want

Posted by Alice Yuan, Senior Developer Relations Engineer In recognition that excessive battery drain is top of mind for Android users, Google has been taking significant steps to help developers build more power-efficient apps. On March 1st, 2026, Google Play Store began rolling out the

Building an Android app for a wearable means the real work starts when the screen turns off. WHOOP helps members understand how their body responds to training, recovery, sleep, and stress, and for the many WHOOP members on Android, reliable background syncing and connectivity are

Putting It Together The blurMultiplier is the single control surface for both implementations. Zero means no blur anywhere. One means the shader is at full angular spread (or all ghost layers at full opacity). The transition between those states is driven by real measured velocity,

A deep dive into LocalResources.current vs LocalContext.current If you want to see these simple examples in action, in the jc-text module of my Github repository. Experiments/jc-text at main · KatieBarnett/Experiments Jetpack Compose: Why you shouldn’t use LocalContext for Strings was originally published in ProAndroidDev on

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Posted by Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem Android has always driven innovation in the industry through its unique flexibility and openness. At this important moment, we want to continue leading the way in how developers distribute their apps and games to people on billions

Posted by Francesco Romano, Senior Developer Relations Engineer on Android We are excited to announce a major milestone in bringing mobile and desktop computing closer together on Android: connected display support has reached general availability with the Android 16 QPR3 release! As shown at Google

Keep in touch 🤜🤛Nav Singh (@navczydev@androiddev.social)navczydev - Overviewnavczydev.bsky.socialJavaScript is not available. https://www.linkedin.com/in/navczydev/ReferencesThe Second Beta of Android 17Get a result from an activity | App architecture | Android Developers https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.pixolor.app Exploring the EyeDropper API- Android 17 was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are

App startup time — cold, warm, and hot startsActivity launch modesMulti-display activity launch (AOSP)Android Binder IPC architectureAAOS developer guide The Camera That Launched Too Late was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Posted by Matt Dyor, Senior Product Manager Android Studio Panda 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This release brings new agentic capabilities to Android Studio, enabling the agent to create an entire working application from scratch with the AI-powered

Under The Hood: How Does Compose Actually Do This? When you pass contentScale to an Image, here's what's really happening deep in the rendering pipeline:Step 1: Measurement The Image composable measures itself based on its Modifier constraints. If you say Modifier.size(300.dp, 400.dp), the container becomes

At the Android Avenue, attendees of MWC Barcelona can experience the latest AI features through hands-on demos on the newest devices and prototype glasses.

Posted by Trevor Johns, Developer Relations Engineer In January we announced Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop in stable, including Agent Mode enhancements and many other updates to provide more control and flexibility over using AI to help you build high quality Android apps. To

In our previous article: Building an Infinite Video Feed in Jetpack Compose: A Media3 Tutorial We built a robust foundation for a vertical video feed. We utilized `VerticalPager` for the UI, `ExoPlayer` for playback, and a custom `PlayerPool` to manage heavy resources. In our previous

How to Manage Open Source & Closed Source Code in One Android Project Using Multi-Modules & Git Submodules Many Android developers eventually face the same architectural challenge. On one side, there is the desire to build in public, accept contributions, and grow a real community

In my previous blog post, Beyond Font Scaling: Large Content Viewer with Compose, I explained how to build a large content viewer from iOS using Jetpack Compose. The implementation did not include support for keyboard or other assistive tech navigation, so this blog post tackles

It is hard to imagine that a designer will attach this illustration of animation to the provided mockup, so the basic animation is the responsibility of the developer, and we should care about this, especially when it’s easy to make the simplest one. The simple

Android Studio Panda 3 | 2025.3.3 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

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP Product Management, Android Developer Today we're releasing the second beta of Android 17, continuing our work to build a platform that prioritizes privacy, security, and refined performance. This update delivers a range of new capabilities, including the EyeDropper API and

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User expectations for AI on their devices are fundamentally shifting how they interact with their apps. Instead of opening apps to do tasks step-by-step, they're asking AI to do the heavy lifting for them. In this new interaction model, success is shifting from getting users

Android Studio Panda 3 | 2025.3.3 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

Android Studio Panda 2 | 2025.3.2 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

In 2025, we significantly enhanced the Google Play and Android app ecosystems.