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Android Studio Quail 4 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

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ML Kit gives you Google’s models. MediaPipe gives you the pipeline. In Part 1 we reached for ML Kit because it’s turnkey: add a dependency, pass an InputImage, get a structured result. That covers a huge slice of everyday mobile AI. But every team eventually

Two independent sources of truth as judges, a coding agent as the mechanic — how to architect any logic module so an agent can test it, localize bugs, and fix them autonomously, with the constraints baked into the build, not the prompt. The agent went

wrong input) catch “green but blind” instantly.Fix the API, not the call site. The durable fix was a combinator that can only return a matcher, so the blind version doesn’t compile. @CheckResult is a cheaper interim guardrail on the same idea.Isolate the client. Live-backend E2E

A practical explanation of channelFlow internals without diving into Flow source code Anatolii Frolov Senior Android Developer Writing honest, real-world Kotlin & Jetpack Compose insights. 📬 Follow me on Medium How channelFlow Works: A Simplified Version You Can Build Yourself was originally published in ProAndroidDev

Android Studio Quail 3 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

Android Studio Quail 2 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,

Posted by Amman Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production, bringing a shift to your IDE with concurrent agentic workflows, natively integrated memory leak profiling, and context-aware crash remediation. Whether you are

The full KMPilot walkthrough: an Android + iOS app from seven Claude Code commands, every prompt and timing included ▶ Watch this phase in the full sessionThe receipts Times are active working time: every action counts, my own edits and the dead ends included, and

Android development has traditionally revolved around Android Studio. Open the IDE. Click Build. Launch the emulator. Search documentation in the browser. Install SDKs through SDK Manager. But Google is changing that. The new Android CLI brings many of these capabilities directly into your terminal. It

Why letting the compiler catch your bugs is always better than finding them in production kotlin.UninitializedPropertyAccessException: lateinit property variable has not been initialized at com.example.MainActivity.onResume(MainActivity.kt:25) In this blog, we are going to compare these two exceptions: Null pointer exception and Kotlin’s Uninitialized property access exception.Key

Android Studio Quail 3 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

Write once, render anywhere Cloudy started as a Compose Multiplatform blur library. Modifier.cloudy reads the backdrop captured behind a node and blurs it — cross-platform, through one API:https://medium.com/media/7bc3f07fdc245dbe631eed82c56c1bef/href Blur is a single effect with a single knob, a radius, and for a long time that

📚 Magical Book of Compose Performance — Defer State Reads✨ We recently gave a talk 🎤 at a couple of Android conferences about how to debug Compose Compose performance & various tools in your arsenal 🛠🧰 To make it fun we had this quirky idea

Every Compose project seems to reach the same point. To illustrate the problem, let’s start with a simple composable hierarchy. Throughout this article, ParentScreen serves as the top-level composable. It calls Root, which in turn calls Content.ParentScreen -> Root -> Content Each composable is just

Android Studio Quail 2 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

Posted by Zoe Lopez-Latorre, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Back in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Our goal was to provide transparency around model capabilities in Android development and to encourage model improvements, to give you more helpful

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Android Studio Quail 3 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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Posted by Tibian Elsheikh, Product Manager, Android Core Graphics and Jeffrey Jose, Product Manager, Android Core Graphics We’ve all been there: You’re scrolling through your favorite social media feed in a dim room, and suddenly an HDR video pops up. It’s so intensely bright that

Android Studio Quail 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 Updates on

Posted by Paul Feng, Vice President, Google Play Eng, Product, UX At Google Play, we are committed to delivering the best possible experience to users, while ensuring developers have the tools and adaptability to succeed. Guided by this commitment, earlier this year we announced updates

Android Studio Quail 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 Updates on

Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety July 15, 2026: Updated Play Console requirements for Play developers To meet Android developer verification and updated Play Console Requirements, Play developers must register their Play apps in Play Console. While 99% of apps on

Posted by Coco Fatus, UX Designer, Alon Hetzroni, UX Engineer, Azin Mehrnoosh, Product Manager Android XR At this year's Google I/O, we announced an update for spatial experiences: the Geospatial API is now available as a preview in ARCore for Jetpack XR. By bringing Google's

Android Studio Quail 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 Updates on

Android Studio Quail 1 Patch 2 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

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