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Android Studio Panda 3 | 2025.3.3 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 Updates on

“Over the last three to five years, many of the promises that drew people to tech have been called into question.” The tech industry has long promised opportunity, growth, and the chance to build things that reach millions of people. Today, many of those assumptions

Posted by Matthew Warner, Google Product Manager Every developer's AI workflow and needs are unique, and it's important to be able to choose how AI helps your development. In January, we introduced the ability to choose any local or remote AI model to power AI

Posted by David Chou, Product Manager and Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer At Google, we’re committed to bringing the most capable AI models directly to the Android devices in your pocket. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of our latest state-of-the-art open model: Gemma

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management Android Development Today, we are enhancing Android development with Gemma 4, our latest state-of-the-art open model designed with complex reasoning and autonomous tool-calling capabilities. Our vision is to enable local agentic AI on Android across the entire

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Posted by Michael Stillwell, Developer Relations Engineer and Dimitris Kosmidis, Product Manager, Wear OS 64-bit architectures provide performance improvements and a foundation for future innovation, delivering faster and richer experiences for your users. We’ve supported 64-bit CPUs since Android 5. This aligns Wear OS with

March was a busy month for Kotlin, with a new language release, fresh tooling, ecosystem updates, and plenty of inspiration ahead of KotlinConf’26. From practical improvements to exciting steps in AI and multiplatform, there’s a lot worth exploring. Here are the stories that stood out

Amper 0.10.0 is out, and it brings a variety of new features, such as JDK provisioning, custom Kotlin compiler plugins, a Maven-to-Amper converter, and numerous IDE improvements! Read on for all of the details, and see the release notes for the full list of changes

Software Engineer Media3 1.10 is out!Media3 1.10 includes new features, bug fixes and feature improvements, including Material3-based playback widgets, expanded format support in ExoPlayer and improved speed adjustment when exporting media with Transformer. Read on to find out more, and check out the full release

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Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety Android is for everyone. It’s built on a commitment to an open and safe platform. Users should feel confident installing apps, no matter where they get them from. However, our recent analysis found over 90

We had a delay(300) hiding a real initialization problem. Here’s what was actually happening — and the fix that made it disappear. Our Android app loads a heavy, interactive SVG inside a WebView — think thousands of path elements, JavaScript interactivity, the works. The problem

If you’re an Android developer using AI coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor, there’s a good chance your machine is slower than it should be right now.The problem AI agents trigger Gradle builds constantly. If your setup isn’t perfectly consistent across projects — different

Part 2 — Animated Snake Border for Rectangle Shapes . — Step 1 Extract animation STATE: By state here I mean the variable that describes the snake movement itself. If we treat the full perimeter as a closed contour of normalized length 1, then that

Then question that came to mind — can I create UI in Compose? So, lets try to implement it As long as setContentView requires only View , we have to make ComposeViewval composeView = ComposeView(this).apply { setContent { DreamServiceTheme { DreamScreen( onOpenSettings = { openSettingsAndExitDream()

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ReferencesAOSP Graphics Architecture — the BufferQueue pipeline in detailBufferQueue and Gralloc — buffer allocation mechanics; confirms allocation is sized at surface creationChromium Graphics Dev — Use TextureView as compositing surface on Android? — Sami Kyostila (Google) independently confirms the triple-buffer formula (3 × view_width ×

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Android Studio Panda 4 | 2025.3.4 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 Robert Clifford, Developer Relations Engineer and Manjeet Rulhania, Software Engineer A pillar of the Android ecosystem is our shared commitment to user trust. As the mobile landscape has evolved, so does our approach to protecting sensitive information. In Android 17, we’re introducing a

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer Android 17 has officially reached platform stability today with Beta 3. That means that the API surface is locked; you can perform final compatibility testing and push your Android 17-targeted apps to the Play Store.

Now your research agent doesn’t just produce text: it produces structured data that your application can use. You could store it in a database, display it in a UI, feed it into another agent, whatever you need. For even more reliable structured output, you can

The topic of data serialization is fundamental for any mobile developer, since it is used for working with the network, the file system, and communication between core components. However, there is one peculiarity in this area that I encountered for the first time in seven

My Take: Why MVI is my favorite To be honest, I’ve become an MVI convert. Why? Because of Peace of Mind. In standard MVVM, you’re always one “copy-paste error” away from a state inconsistency bug. You might have five different functions updating the same StateFlow,

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“There’s never been a better time to be a JVM or Spring developer.” The Spring ecosystem has evolved dramatically over the past decade, from traditional enterprise applications to microservices, distributed systems, and now AI-powered services. Few people have witnessed that evolution as closely as Josh

The full KotlinConf’26 schedule is finally live, and it’s packed! With parallel tracks, deep-dive sessions, and back-to-back talks, planning your time can feel overwhelming. When almost every session looks interesting, deciding where to spend your time isn’t easy. To help you navigate it all, the

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