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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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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

Posted by Paul Lammertsma, Developer Relations Engineer With over 300 million monthly active devices across Google TV and Android TV, it’s clear that the living room is a massive, distinct platform for apps to accelerate growth. Today, we’re excited to share Google TV features and

Posted by Simona Milanovic and Ben Trengrove, Developer Relations Engineers As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, tools, command-line interfaces (CLI), and LLMs you use for app development. Whether you use Gemini in Android Studio, Antigravity 2.0, Antigravity CLI,

Posted by Android XR Team The Android XR ecosystem is expanding, and we’re committed to supporting developers who will build its next great experiences. Today, we’re opening applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program, a dedicated initiative to accelerate the development of Android XR

Posted Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, Adaptive Apps With the release of Android 17, we are transitioning into an adaptive first development standard. Your users no longer rely on a single form factor; they transition between phones, foldables, tablets, laptops, automotive displays, and immersive XR

Posted by Stevan Silva, Group Product Manager and Amy Zeppenfeld, Developer Relations Engineer Today we're excited to launch Developer Preview 4 of the Android XR SDK, continuing our focus on unifying cross-device development for headsets, wired XR glasses, and intelligent eyewear. To keep our platform

Posted by Luke Hopkins, Android Developer Relations Engineer for OpenXR & Ryan Bartley, Android XR Product Manager Today, we are excited to announce that official support for Unreal Engine and Godot has arrived for Android XR. Alongside these engine expansions, we are also launching new

By Simon Cooke, Developer Relations Engineer (X) and Mayank Jain, Product Manager (X) What is Android Performance Analyzer? Android Performance Analyzer (APA) is Android’s new profiler and performance analysis tool for the Android mobile ecosystem. APA is intended as a profiling tool for any developer

Posted by Matthew Warner, Google Product Manager This year at Google I/O we are going beyond iterative changes, towards a fundamental shift in how apps are built. Our newest tools are built for the agentic era with features that boost productivity for you as an

Android 13+ and later versions introduced significant changes in how apps access media files. The adoption of granular permissions requires app updates to ensure proper functionality. This post provides a code overview for capturing an image, saving it to storage, and retrieving it on devices

Android Just Became an Intelligence System — And Most Developers Don’t Know What That Means for Their App! Android Just Became an Intelligence System — And Most Developers Don’t Know What That Means for… was originally published in ProAndroidDev on Medium, where people are continuing

From Hilt vs Koin to Retrofit vs Ktor — how the philosophical battle between Block and JetBrains shaped modern Android development. Android isn’t just choosing libraries anymore. It’s choosing its future.Square’s Legacy: Why Retrofit and Hilt Feel So “Android-Native” To understand why many Android developers

In the world of Android development, the Room Persistence Library serves as a powerful abstraction over SQLite. However, as your database grows, standard queries can become sluggish. To maintain a fluid user experience, understanding and implementing Indices is essential. This article explores how Room indices

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll see this project structure in newly created projects

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How well do these tools actually work

A new release of Compose Multiplatform has landed, with improvements to the iOS and web experience and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Read on for the highlights, or for the complete list of changes, check out the What’s New. Get Started with Compose Multiplatform

Android Studio Quail 1 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

📌 Key Idea:Treat AI just like a data source, not a special case.⚙️ Approach 1: Using AI APIs (Recommended for Most Apps) This is the fastest and most scalable approach.🔹 How it works:User enters a queryApp sends it to an AI APIAPI returns a responseUI

Introduction: The Paradigm Shift in Mobile-Connected Hardware The evolution of connected hardware has transitioned rapidly from simple, single-node peripherals to highly complex, multi-device ecosystems operating synchronously. In the premium consumer audio and health technology sectors, devices such as advanced sleep wearables and FDA-cleared self-fitting hearing

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-based-destructuring=only-syntax compiler argument) and will become Stable in a future release. In

Most implementations stop at the pipeline. Conversation starts after. Voice AI on Android has two versions. The demo version and the real one. The demo version is simple: record audio, send it to a speech API, get a transcript, send the transcript to an LLM,

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With added depth and rich details, Noto 3D emoji make it easier to say what words alone can miss.