Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play, Google PlayToday, we shared how we’re taking our “More than a store” vision into its next chapter. From You tab—now a personalized home base for your favorite apps and content—to Play Games Sidekick connecting over 2 billion players, Google...

Posted by Jason Buchel, Creative Technologist, Platform & Devices As agentic development accelerates, Android engineering is reaching an exciting new frontier: moving from assistive code completion to agents executing end-to-end under your direction. You have total choice and flexibility in the mode...

Posted by Cyrus Stoller, Group Product Manager, Laptops & TabletsToday, getting the most out of AI workflows requires access to a terminal with a command line, even if someone doesn’t identify as a programmer or software developer. With Googlebook, we’re excited to help users express themselves and ...

Posted by Simona Milanovic, Developer Relations EngineerAs Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, LLMs, tools, and command-line interfaces (CLI) you use for app development. Our goal is to help you build beautiful, high-quality Android apps, no matter how you choose t...

Posted by Pavlo Stavytskyi, Software Engineer, Meta and Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, GoogleThis blog post is written in collaboration with the Meta team. Instagram Direct is one of the core surfaces on Instagram, handling billions of user messages every single day. Over years of ite...

Posted by Sheenam Mittal, Senior Product Manager, Google PlayThe subscription landscape is evolving rapidly, especially with the surge of generative AI and increasingly sophisticated app experiences. As the ecosystem shifts, we recognize that developers need more flexible and robust tools to monetiz...

Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where you take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post you lear...

Posted by Matthew Warner, Product Manager, Android Developer ExperienceAI-powered developer tools have become an essential multiplier for engineering productivity, with teams adopting specialized AI coding agents, custom enterprise harnesses, and autonomous tools. It’s important for you to be able t...

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, and Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android DeveloperGooglebook introduces a new category of laptops built on a shared Android foundation. High-performance hardware from partners such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus, combines mobile conve...

Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for CarsToday, the games category for Android Auto and cars powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in is officially graduating from beta to general availability. Our early access partners have already been bringing games to th...

Posted by Maunik Shah, Staff Software Engineer, Alec Garcia, Software Engineer, and Joseph Yong, Technical Program ManagerAt Android, we are constantly working to provide developers and enterprise partners with the data they need to keep devices protected. Today, we're thrilled to announce the stabl...

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how large language models (LLMs) assist developers with real-world Android tasks. As AI models and agents rapidly evolve, we’ve been updating ou...

Posted by Steven Jenkins, Product Manager, Sherif Eid, Senior Software Engineer, and Fabien Sanglard, Staff Software Engineer, Android StudioWireless debugging on Android is now faster, more reliable, and easier to set up than ever. With ADB Wi-Fi 2.0, we’ve introduced a new server stack and smarter...

Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android StudioAndroid Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This is the final stable release for Android Studio Quail. The new features in Android Studio enable you to build premium apps with AI efficiently and effectively....

Posted by Rob Orgiu, Developer Relations Engineer, Adaptive Apps, AndroidAdaptive app development is fundamental on Android, but making sure everything looks good and every feature works the way it should require multiple tests on multiple devices. Or does it? Well, yes… and no! While Android Studio...

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...