Posted by Niharika Arora, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Google and  Mayank Manuja, Android Engineer, MetaWhatsApp is the world's largest messaging platform, serving billions of users globally. It is the default communication tool for people across di...

Posted by Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, GM, Google Play Developer & MonetizationMaintaining a healthy Android ecosystem is a shared commitment where every app and game has a role to play. To help you deliver the premium experiences users expect, Google Play is introducing two new quality requirem...

Posted by Ron Aquino, Senior Director, Trust & Safety, Chrome, Android, and PlayAt Google Play, user safety and developer success go hand in hand. We continue to see growth in apps with AI generated features, and indeed, adding generative AI into your apps is a great way to unlock incredible creativ...

Posted by Markus Vill, Software Engineer, Sean Keys, Security Engineer, and Istvan Nador, Software Engineer, Android AutoAt Google, we believe our products should be secure by design, which is why we built the Android Automotive Operating System for Software Defined Vehicle (AAOS SDV) on existing, m...

Posted by Blair Harmon, Director of Product Management, Android PlatformA great user experience is central to Android's mission, and delivering on that promise requires keeping devices fast, responsive, and reliable. This is why memory optimization is more critical than ever. Across the ecosystem, n...

Posted by Ajesh R Pai, Developer Relations Engineer, Ulises Uriel Verduzco Diaz, Software Engineer, Tinder, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing ManagerTinder is on a mission to power and inspire real connections by making meeting easy and fun for every new generation of singles. However, as their ...

Posted by Amy Zeppenfeld, Developer Relations Engineer, Greg Underwood, Software Engineering Manager, Yasmine Evjen, Senior Product Manager, Android XRSince introducing the Android XR SDK, developers have transformed their ideas into innovative, immersive experiences for XR headsets and wired XR gla...

Posted by J. Eason, Director, Product Management, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Android DeveloperMade by Google expands what's possible across the Android ecosystem. With the introduction of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, and the ent...

Posted by Chiara Chiappini, Developer Relation Engineer, Android Developer RelationsOne-handed gestures offer a convenient and touch-free way for users to interact with their watches, enabling them to perform key actions using only the hand on which the device is worn.  First introduced on Pixel Wat...

Posted by Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Jetpack ComposeToday, the Jetpack Compose August ‘26 release is stable! This release brings version 1.12 across core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping), introducing rich visual APIs like Mesh Gradients and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) support, structural la...

Posted by Toni Heidenreich, Software Engineer, Android Media3 1.11 is out. Powering the vast majority of top Android media apps, this release brings new features, bug fixes, and improvements across playback, editing, and UI components. We're expanding our Jetpack Compose UI modules with customizable...

Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWe released the official Android Skills in April, and the response surpassed all our expectations. In this blog post, I'll address some of the feedback we received, explaining the philosophy and methodology behind the...

Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google PlayProviding a safe online experience and protecting users from harm is a top priority at Google Play. We take this responsibility seriously and have been investing continuously to offer baseline protections on our platform while also empowering...

Posted by Andrei Shikov, Senior Software Engineer, Android Toolkit and Jonathan Starup, Software Engineer, R8 Team Starting from AGP 9.2.0, R8 optimizes most Atomic*FieldUpdater calls into Unsafe variants that perform 2x to 4x better on common operations. This has a particularly large impact on the ...

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager and Miguel Montemayor, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer ExperienceToday at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung unveiled its latest lineup of foldable and wearable devices. For developers, this means that the variety of form factors, screen sizes, and...

Posted by Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, AndroidToday, we officially celebrate five years since the release of Jetpack Compose 1.0. From version 1.0, announced on July 28th, 2021, to our latest 1.11 release, we’...

Posted by Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang, Senior Developer Relations Engineers, Android Developer RelationsWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In ...

Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post, we explored ho...

Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsBuilding GenAI features in your app usually means navigating through various models, APIs and architecture choices:  Execution location: Where does your model run? On device, in the cloud, or both? Complexity:...

Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we introduced Jetpac...

Posted by Wei Wang, Engineering Manager, Android BeTo User privacy and transparency are core to the Android experience. To better align with these principles, we are updating the default behavior of the Nearby Connections API regarding how it interacts with device radios. What is changing? Previousl...

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 performi...