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Search Quality Raters Guidelines update


As of November 16, Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines.
As a reminder, these guidelines are what are used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance
of our various search r...
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Bringing New Input Support to Desktop AVD




Posted by Joshua Hale – Software Engineer



As large screens become increasingly important within the Android app ecosystem, we are committed to enhance tools to help Android developers adapt their apps for these large screen form factors. In doing...
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Ensuring high-quality apps on Google Play




Posted by Kobi Gluck, Director of Product Management, Google Play




Every day, Google Play helps billions of people around the world discover engaging, helpful, and enriching experiences on their devices. Maintaining consistently high app quality ...
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Evolving the App Defense Alliance

Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team


The App Defense Alliance (ADA), an industry-leading collaboration launched by Google in 2019 dedicated to ensuring the safety of the app ecosystem, is taking a major step forward. We are...
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Order Files in Android




Posted by Aditya Kumar – Software Engineer



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Binary layout using a symbol order file (also known as binary order file or linker order file) is a well-known link-time optimization. The linker uses the order of symbols in order file to lay o...
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Qualified certificates with qualified risks

Posted by Chrome Security team


Improving the interoperability of web services is an important and worthy goal. We believe that it should be easier for people to maintain and control their digital identities. And we appreciate that policymakers workin...
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Alpha Release of Telecom Library




Posted by Luke Hopkins - Developer Relations Engineer



Today we’re thrilled to announce that the Telecom jetpack library is now in alpha for developers who already have or are interested in creating voice and/or video calling applications. Our aim...
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Increasing trust for embedded media




Posted by the Android team



Android WebView is a powerful and flexible API that Android developers can use to embed media in their apps, and continually improving its security and privacy protections is a top priority for our team. For example, em...
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