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Let others easily book time with you using the new pre-configured Google Calendar booking page

What’s changing Following our recent announcement of the ability to share your Google Calendar appointment booking page directly in your email, we’re excited to introduce a new way to access all your booking pages directly in the Calendar side bar...

Google

22 Aug 2025

64-bit app compatibility for Google TV and Android TV

Posted by Fahad Durrani – Product Management, Google TV

Google TV and Android TV will require 64-bit app compatibility to support upcoming 64-bit TV devices starting August 2026.

Following other Android form factors, Google TV and Android TV de...

Google

21 Aug 2025

Journey through Pixel’s history with our Gemini-made web app.

Learn more about the history of Google Pixel products in this interactive web app.

Google

21 Aug 2025

Explore all the Made by Google news with NotebookLM.

Learn more about all the announcements from Made by Google 2025 with NotebookLM, Audio and Video Overviews.

Google

21 Aug 2025

Looking back on 10 generations of Pixel

Google’s Pixel 10 series marks 10 generations of Pixel phones — here’s a look back at where it all started.

Google

21 Aug 2025

Changes for supporting European Union Political Ads Regulation in Display & Video 360 API and Structured Data Files

What’s changing?

As announced last year, Google will stop serving political advertising in the European Union (EU) ahead of new regulation in October 2025. Starting September 8, 2025, the Display & Video 360 API and Structured Data Files (SDFs) wil...

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21 Aug 2025

Build your app to meet users in every moment on the newest Pixel devices, from wearables to foldables, and more

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz – Senior Product Manager and Kseniia Shumelchyk – Engineering Manager, Developer Relations

This week at Made by Google, we introduced the new suite of Pixel devices, including the Pixel 10 Pro Fold and Pixel Watch 4. These ...

Google

21 Aug 2025

5 new things Gemini can do on Pixel

Learn more about new Gemini features and model updates that make Pixel phones even better.

Google

21 Aug 2025

Incorporate information from Calendar, Tasks, and Keep in your conversations with Gemini Live

What’s changing Last month, we announced the ability to conduct in-depth two-way conversations with Gemini Live. You can use Live to brainstorm ideas, explore new concepts, and more. You can also engage in these conversations by visually sharing y...

Google

21 Aug 2025

Effortlessly work with ServiceNow data across Google Chat and Sheets

What’s changing ServiceNow, a platform that helps unite people, processes, and systems with AI-powered products for all of their workflows, is now integrated with Google Chat and Sheets. With the ServiceNow and Google Chat integration, users ...

Google

21 Aug 2025

#WeArePlay: How Maliyo Games is turning local culture into global hits

Posted by Robbie McLachlan – Developer Marketing

In our latest #WeArePlay film, which celebrates the people behind apps and games on Google Play, we meet Hugo, the founder of Maliyo Games. He is on a mission to put African stories and talent on ...

Google

21 Aug 2025

Our approach to energy innovation and AI’s environmental footprint

An overview of how Google’s approaching AI, energy efficiency and innovation.

Google

21 Aug 2025

AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

AI Mode in Google Search is expanding to more regions and adding more features.

Google

21 Aug 2025

Hear how a decade-long bet on AI and hardware led to the new Pixel 10.

Ever wonder what it takes to build a phone a decade in the making?In the first episode of Season 8 Made by Google podcast, host Rachid Finge sits down with Venkat Rapaka…

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20 Aug 2025

There’s a new way to manage parental controls on Android.

We are adding a new “Parental Controls” option inside Android Settings, where parents can find both built-in controls and Google Family Link.Protected by an easy-to-set …

Google

20 Aug 2025

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 is here

Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Management, Android Developer

Today we're releasing Android 16 quarterly platform release 2 (QPR2) Beta 1, providing you with an early opportunity to try out the APIs and features that are moving Andro...

Google

20 Aug 2025

Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio

We’re excited to announce that you can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat. You can connect API keys from providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) to access a wider range of models. This makes it easy to test the latest releases, customize workflows, or run on infrastructure you control. What it unlocks […]
The post Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

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20 Aug 2025

Maximize the performance of your Google Ads conversion data

In today's data-driven world, the performance of your ad campaigns increasingly depends on the richness of the conversion data you import. When it comes to machine learning, the more signals you provide, the better the models can understand user beha...

Google

20 Aug 2025

Search Central Live is back to Mexico City

We're very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Ciudad de Mexico
on September 25! Following successful events throughout the world earlier this year, we're
continuing our mission to helpyou enha...

Google

20 Aug 2025

Arrow keys now move an object by a pixel distance in Google Slides

What's ChangingPrior to today, when using the arrow keys to move objects in Google Slides, the object would move a great distance. To improve upon this experience, the using the arrow keys to “nudge” an object will now move by 1 pixel. If you want to m...

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19 Aug 2025

Create and manage student groups using the Google Classroom API

What’s changing Last year, we announced a new feature that enables teachers to create groups of students in Google Classroom. Now, we are excited to announce the launch of the Google Classroom API Student Groups endpoints which enable developers t...

Google

19 Aug 2025

Listen to your documents using Gemini in Google Docs

What’s changing For those who prefer to listen to document content, we’re excited to introduce the ability to create audio versions of your documents using Gemini in Google Docs. Whether you want to hear your content out loud, absorb informat...

Google

18 Aug 2025

Improving the ISEMAIL and ISURL functions in Google Sheets

What’s changing =ISURL() and =ISEMAIL() are two Google Sheets functions that check whether a value is a valid URL or email address, respectively. To ensure more domains and email addresses are properly recognized by these functions, we’re improvin...

Google

18 Aug 2025

Catch up on unread messages within a conversation in Google Chat

What’s changing You can currently use Gemini in Google Chat to summarize unread conversations in the Chat home view and to summarize files shared in conversations. To build upon this, we’re adding the ability to catch up on unread messages in a d...

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18 Aug 2025

Coming soon: A refreshed user interface for Google Meet hardware touch controllers, test it now in preview

What’s changing In the coming weeks, we will be introducing an updated user interface for the Mimo Vue HD, Mimo Mist, Logitech Tap, Logitech Tap IP and Lenovo Series One Touch controllers.
To explore this upcoming feature, we encourage Admins to c...

Google

18 Aug 2025

Google Ads API documentation gets a major upgrade!

We're thrilled to announce significant improvements to the Google Ads API documentation, designed to make your development experience smoother, faster, and more intuitive. These changes are a direct result of valuable feedback from our incredible API ...

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14 Aug 2025

Accelerating development with monthly releases for Android Studio – releasing 2X more often than before

Posted by Xavier Ducrohet – Tech Lead, Android Studio and Adarsh Fernando – Group Product Manager, Android Studio

Last year, we doubled our release frequency for Android Studio with the introduction of Feature Drops, a change designed to bring yo...

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14 Aug 2025

Test on a fleet of physical devices with Android Device Streaming, now with Android Partner Device Labs

Posted by Adarsh Fernando – Group Product Manager, Android Studio, and Grant Yang – Sr. Product Manager, Omnilab

Today, we're excited to give you an update on Android Device Streaming and announce that Android Partner Device Labs are now stable ...

Google

14 Aug 2025

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release

Posted by Meghan Mehta – Developer Relations Engineer and Nick Butcher – Product Manager

Today, the Jetpack Compose August ‘25 release is stable. This release contains version 1.9 of core compose modules (see the full BOM mapping), introducing ne...

Google

13 Aug 2025

Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve Prestigious SESIP Level 5 Security Certification

Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security & Privacy

Today marks a watershed moment and new benchmark for open-source security and the future of consumer electronics. Google is proud to announce that protected KVM (pKVM), the hype...

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12 Aug 2025

Media3 1.8.0 – What’s new?

Posted by Toni Heidenreich – Engineering Manager

This release includes several bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. Read on to find out more, and as always please check out the full release notes for a comprehensive overview of...

Google

11 Aug 2025

#WeArePlay: Meet the people coding a more sustainable world

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing

How do you tackle the planet's biggest sustainability and environmental challenges? For 10 new founders we’re spotlighting in #WeArePlay, it starts with coding. Their apps and games are helping to ...

Google

7 Aug 2025

Changes for supporting European Union Political Ads Regulation in Google Ads API and Google Ads scripts

What’s changing?

As announced last year, Google will stop serving political advertising in the European Union ahead of a new regulation taking effect in October 2025. On September 3, 2025, the Google Ads API and Google Ads scripts will roll out enf...

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7 Aug 2025

Announcing v21 of the Google Ads API

Today, we’re announcing the v21 release of the Google Ads API. To use some of the v21 features, you must upgrade your client libraries and client code. All the updated client libraries and code examples have been published.

As previously announced,...

Google

6 Aug 2025

What is HDR?

Posted by John Reck – Software Engineer

For Android developers, delivering exceptional visual experiences is a continuous goal. High Dynamic Range (HDR) unlocks new possibilities, offering the potential for more vibrant and immersive content. Techn...

Google

6 Aug 2025

Unlocking enhanced Performance Max targeting in the Google Ads API

This blog post was updated on August 12, 2025 to add clarification on how to attach a negative keyword list to your campaign.

We're excited to announce the launch of three powerful new features for Performance Max campaigns within the Google Ads A...

Google

4 Aug 2025

Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop is stable – start using Agent Mode

Posted by Paris Hsu – Product Manager, Android Studio

The next wave of innovation is here with Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop. We're thrilled to announce that Gemini in Android Studio's Agent Mode is now available in the stable release, re...

Google

31 Jul 2025

July 2025 update to Display & Video 360 API

Today, we’re announcing the July 2025 update to the Display & Video 360 API. This update includes the following:

Support for campaign and insertion order targeting in v4, bringing it to parity with v3.
The ability to retrieve video ad inventory con...

Google

31 Jul 2025

#WeArePlay: 10 million downloads and counting, meet app and game founders from across the U.S.

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing

They saw a problem and built the answer. Meet 20 #WeArePlay founders from across the U.S. who started their entrepreneurial journey with a question like: what if reading was no longer a barrier ...

Google

24 Jul 2025

Version Support Changes for the Google Ads API Python Library

In October, 2025, Python 3.9 will reach end-of-life in October 2025 and will no longer be supported by the Python Software Foundation. Once Python 3.9 officially reaches end-of-life status, it will also no longer be supported by the Google Ads client...

Google

24 Jul 2025

Introducing the Google Trends API (alpha): a new way to access Search Trends data

We're excited to announce the Google Trends API alpha test. This new API will help
Researchers, Journalists, and Developers to understand Search behaviors and patterns.
While Trends data is available through the Trends w...

Google

24 Jul 2025

Increased flexibility for Google Ads API conversion imports

Starting on October 3, 2025, you will be able to set both the gclid and gbraid fields on your ClickConversion messages when importing them to the Google Ads API, by using the UploadClickConversions method.

Previously, setting both of these fields r...

Google

22 Jul 2025

Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last

Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST)Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to ta...

Google

21 Jul 2025

What you need to know about the business name and logo asset migration in PMax Campaigns

What’s changed?

Today, we're excited to announce that the brand guidelines rollout is now complete for all new Performance Max campaigns created through the Google Ads UI, with API-created accounts soon to follow. As was first announced in December,...

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14 Jul 2025

Google Ads API v18 Sunset Reminder

Google Ads API v18 will sunset on August 20, 2025. Starting on this date, all v18 API requests will begin to fail. Migrate to a newer version prior to August 20, 2025 to ensure your API access is unaffected.

Here are some resources to help you with ...

Google

10 Jul 2025

Ad Sharing Functionality Will Be Deprecated in Google Ads API in October 2025

What is changing?

Google is deprecating the ad sharing functionality in Google Ads API.

With the October 2025 release of v22, the ability to create shared ads will be removed from all supported versions on October 15, 2025.
In Q1 2026, shared ads...

Google

9 Jul 2025

4 new AI updates on Android coming to Samsung Galaxy devices

Today at Galaxy Unpacked we announced four AI on Android updates coming to Samsung’s latest devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7 and Watch8 series.

Google

9 Jul 2025

Join our “Google Advertising and Measurement Community” Discord Server

We’re launching our new “Google Advertising and Measurement Community” Discord server! To join, just click this invite link and follow the onboarding guide.

The current products available on this server are Analytics, Google Ads, Google AdMob, and ...

Google

8 Jul 2025

Advancing Protection in Chrome on Android

Posted by David Adrian, Javier Castro & Peter Kotwicz, Chrome Security Team

Android recently announced Advanced Protection, which extends Google’s Advanced Protection Program to a device-level security setting for Android users that need heighten...

Google

8 Jul 2025

Help shape Google Ads API’s future Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

The Google Ads API team is exploring bringing a Model Context Protocol Server to the developer base to allow third-party GenAI tools to work with advertiser accounts. We are seeking your initial input to help us shape our roadmap.

If you are intere...

Google

7 Jul 2025

Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance

Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.

Google

3 Jul 2025

Upcoming changes to Search and SearchStream responses in Google Ads API

What’s changing?

Last year, we introduced query_resource_consumption metric as a way to measure how expensive a Google Ads API query is. However, this cost was not returned when the query results were empty.

Starting the week of August 4, 2025, w...

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1 Jul 2025

[Update] Add Conversion Environment to Google Ads Conversion Imports

Previously we announced that, starting on June 30, 2025, in-app conversions imported through the Google Ads API must include a value for the ClickConversion.conversion_environment field. The timing and details for this rollout have changed.

Now, s...

Google

30 Jun 2025

The new Search Console Insights report is here

We're excited to announce the launch of the new Search Console Insights report. The new report offers
even more insights and a deeper integration with Search Console's Performance report.
With this change, we aim to stre...

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30 Jun 2025

Upcoming Removal of debug_enabled in Google Ads API Offline Conversion Imports

In v21 of the Google Ads API, the UploadClickConversion method’s debug_enabled setting will be removed. Starting on August 6, 2025, all the previous versions (v18, v19, and v20) will ignore this setting if it’s set as part of a request.

As a result...

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26 Jun 2025

Google Ads Scripts Sunsetting Ad Customizers for Expanded Text Ads and Legacy Ad Extension Entities Starting July 14, 2025

Starting July 14, 2025, Google Ads scripts will begin to throw errors for requests related to ad customizers for expanded text ads and feed-based legacy ad extensions.

Ad customizer changes

Any requests related to Ad Customizer entities, such as...

Google

25 Jun 2025

SCL Deep Dive APAC 2025: Community Speakers and a New Format

We hope you're as excited about
Search Central Live Deep Dive APAC
as we are! With just a few weeks to go, we wanted to share an exciting experiment that we're
planning to run at the event, and introduce our comm...

Google

23 Jun 2025

Mitigating prompt injection attacks with a layered defense strategy

Posted by Google GenAI Security TeamWith the rapid adoption of generative AI, a new wave of threats is emerging across the industry with the aim of manipulating the AI systems themselves. One such emerging attack vector is indirect prompt injections. U...

Google

13 Jun 2025

Simplifying the search results page

As part of our ongoing efforts to
simplify the Google Search results page, we will be phasing out support for a few
structured data features in
Search. We regularly evaluate the usefulness of Search features, bot...

Google

12 Jun 2025

6 new Android features that are tailored to you

Android’s latest features: Emoji Kitchen, Daily Listen AI-generated audio shows, new image editor in Google Photos and more.

Google

10 Jun 2025