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60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2024

Recap some of Google’s biggest AI news from 2024, including moments from Gemini, NotebookLM, Search and more.

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23 Dec 2024

Use ad inspector to debug your mobile applications

Ad inspector is an in-app overlay that enables authorized devices to perform real-time analysis of Google Mobile Ads SDK test ad requests directly within your mobile app. It is included with the Google Mobile Ads SDK and you can enable it with no codi...

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20 Dec 2024

The latest AI news we announced in December

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from December including Gemini 2.0, GenCast, and Willow.

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20 Dec 2024

Android XR: The Gemini era comes to headsets and glasses

Android XR is our newest platform built specifically for XR headsets and glasses.

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12 Dec 2024

New features in Android to help you stay safe from unwanted Bluetooth tracking

Android’s unknown tracker alerts automatically notify you if an unfamiliar Bluetooth tracker is moving with you to help you take action to protect yourself.As part of ou…

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11 Dec 2024

Announcing the launch of Vanir: Open-source Security Patch Validation

Posted by Hyunwook Baek, Duy Truong, Justin Dunlap and Lauren Stan from Android Security and Privacy, and Oliver Chang with the Google Open Source Security TeamToday, we are announcing the availability of Vanir, a new open-source security patch validat...

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5 Dec 2024

New AI features and more for Android and Pixel

Learn more about the latest Pixel and Android updates, featuring the latest in Google AI innovation.

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5 Dec 2024

Android’s Expressive Captions uses AI to bring emotion to captions

The new Live Caption feature gives you the full picture of emotion in what’s being said on your device.

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5 Dec 2024

Connect and share in more ways with new Android features

New Android features connect your digital and physical worlds, from expressive audio captions to AI-generated image descriptions by Gemini.

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5 Dec 2024

2024’s greatest hits on Google TV

See Google TV’s top entertainment from 2024 in collections like “most watched movies” and “most watched shows.”

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21 Nov 2024

4 ways Android has made switching even better

It’s easier than ever to switch to Android, with new updates for people switching from iOS to Android or upgrading their devices.

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20 Nov 2024

Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe

Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager and Steve Kafka, Group Product Manager, Android

User safety is at the heart of everything we do at Google. Our mission to make technology helpful for everyone means building features that protect you while...

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13 Nov 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – November 1, 2024

4 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to bo...

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1 Nov 2024

5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe

Posted by Jan Jedrzejowicz, Director of Product, Android and Business Communications; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Stephan Somogyi, Product Lead, User Protection; Branden Archer, Software Engineer

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22 Oct 2024

Improved comments experience in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on Android tablets

Update[October 31, 2024] We have updated the rollout information for this feature. See the Rollout section below for more details.What’s changingEarlier this year, we introduced a new comments experience in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on web. Today...

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21 Oct 2024

What’s new in Android 15, plus more updates

We’re launching new security tools, large screen features and app improvements with Android 15 and Google Play System updates.

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15 Oct 2024

Bringing new theft protection features to Android users around the world

Posted by Jianing Sandra Guo, Product Manager and Nataliya Stanetsky, Staff Program Manager, Android

Janine Roberta Ferreira was driving home from work in São Paulo when she stopped at a traffic light. A man suddenly appeared and broke the window o...

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15 Oct 2024

Pixel’s Proactive Approach to Security: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Cellular Modems

Posted by Sherk Chung, Stephan Chen, Pixel team, and Roger Piqueras Jover, Ivan Lozano, Android team

Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for being security-conscious. In this blog, we'll take a peek under the hood to see how Pixel mit...

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3 Oct 2024

Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations

Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threat to software security. At Google, we believe the path to eliminating this class of vulnerabilities at scale and ...

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25 Sep 2024

Google & Arm – Raising The Bar on GPU Security

Posted by Xuan Xing, Eugene Rodionov, Jon Bottarini, Adam Bacchus - Android Red Team;
Amit Chaudhary, Lyndon Fawcett, Joseph Artgole - Arm Product Security Team

Who cares about GPUs?

You, me, and the entire ecosystem! GPUs (graphics processin...

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24 Sep 2024

New updates to help you do more with Google TV

New home controls, AI-generated screensavers and easier ways to find and watch content are coming to all Google TV devices

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23 Sep 2024

Developer Preview: Desktop windowing on Android Tablets

Posted by Francesco Romano – Developer Relations Engineer on Android, and Fahd Imtiaz – Product Manager, Android Developer

To empower tablet users to get more done, we're enhancing freeform windowing, allowing them to run multiple apps simultaneo...

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12 Sep 2024

Streamlining Android authentication: Credential Manager replaces legacy APIs

Posted by Diego Zavala and Jason Lucibello – Product Managers

In 2023, we introduced Credential Manager for Android. Credential Manager creates a unified experience for passkeys, Sign in with Google, and passwords, allowing seamless sign-in and...

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11 Sep 2024

Jetpack Compose APIs for building adaptive layouts using Material guidance now stable

Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer

The 1.0 stable version of the Compose adaptive APIs with Material guidance is out, ready to be used in production. The library helps you build adaptive layouts that provide an optimized user exp...

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9 Sep 2024

SAP integrated NavigationSuiteScaffold in just 5 minutes to create adaptive navigation UI

Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer

SAP Mobile Start is an app that centralizes access to SAP's mobile business suite, a hub for users to keep track of their companies’ processes and data so they can efficiently manage their dai...

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9 Sep 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – September 6, 2024

1 New updateUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nbs...

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6 Sep 2024

Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases

Posted by Ivan Lozano and Dominik Maier, Android Team Android's use of safe-by-design principles drives our adoption of memory-safe languages like Rust, making exploitation of the OS increasingly difficult with every release. To provide a secure founda...

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4 Sep 2024

TalkBack uses Gemini Nano to increase image accessibility for users with low vision

Posted by Terence Zhang – Developer Relations Engineer and Lisie Lillianfeld - Product Manager

TalkBack is Android’s screen reader in the Android Accessibility Suite that describes text and images for Android users who have blindness or low visio...

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4 Sep 2024

Our first Spotlight Week: diving into Android 15

Posted by Aaron Labiaga- Android Developer Relations Engineer

By now, you’ve probably heard the news: Android 15 was just released earlier today to AOSP. To celebrate, we’re kicking off a new series called “Spotlight Week” where we’ll shine a li...

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3 Sep 2024

Android 15 is released to AOSP

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

Today we're releasing Android 15 and making the source code available at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Android 15 will be available on supported Pixel de...

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3 Sep 2024

Google Maps improved download reliability by 10% using user initiated data transfer API

Posted by Alice Yuan – Developer Relations Engineer, in collaboration with Software Engineers – Matthew Valgenti and Emma Li – at Google

What is user initiated data transfer?

In Android 14 we introduced user-initiated data transfer jobs, or UIDT...

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3 Sep 2024

Android Earthquake Alerts now available across the U.S.

Android Earthquake Alerts is expanding to all 50 U.S. states, using phones to detect earthquakes and send early warnings to users.

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3 Sep 2024

5 new Android features to help you explore, search for music and more

New Android features help you explore with confidence — from using offline maps from your wrist to getting earthquake alerts in more locations.

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3 Sep 2024

#WeArePlay | Estante Mágica, the app helping kids publish their own books

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing

In our latest film for #WeArePlay, which celebrates the people behind apps and games, we meet Robson from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As the co-founder of Estante Mágica, he created an app that turns ...

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3 Sep 2024

Android Studio Koala Feature Drop is Stable!

Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Product Manager, Android Studio

Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Koala Feature Drop (2024.1.2)!🐨

Earlier this year, we announced that every Android Studio animal version will have ...

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29 Aug 2024

Gmail Q&A: A new way of searching your inbox with Gemini on Android devices

What’s changingA few months ago, we announced the general availability of Gemini in the side panel of Gmail, which not only allows users to summarize and suggest responses to email threads, but also includes using Gemini in Gmail on web to ask question...

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29 Aug 2024

Instagram’s early adoption of Ultra HDR transforms user experience in only 3 months

Posted by Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya – Developer Relations Engineer, Google; in partnership with Bismark Ito - Android Developer, Rex Jin - Android Developer and Bei Yi - Partner Engineering

Meta’s Instagram is one of the world's most popular soc...

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27 Aug 2024

The Recorder app on Pixel sees a 24% boost in engagement with Gemini Nano-powered feature

Posted by Terence Zhang – Developer Relations Engineer and Kristi Bradford - Product Manager

Google Pixel’s Recorder app allows people to record, transcribe, save, and share audio. To make it easier for users to manage and revisit their recordin...

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27 Aug 2024

#TheAndroidShow: diving into the latest from Made by Google, including wearables, Foldable, Gemini and more!

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director – Android Developer Relations

We just dropped our summer episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com, where we unpacked all of the goodies coming out of this month’s Made by Google event ...

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27 Aug 2024

Reply to emails in Gmail faster on Android devices

What’s changing We’re making it easier to respond to emails in the Gmail app on your Android device with a new quick reply experience. Previously, there were only options to Reply, Reply all or Forward a message when in the conversation view ...

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26 Aug 2024

Adding 16 KB Page Size to Android

Posted by Steven Moreland – Staff Software Engineer, Sandeep Patil – Principal Software Engineer

A page is the granularity at which an operating system manages memory. Most CPUs today support a 4 KB page size and so the Android OS and applica...

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23 Aug 2024

Tune in for our summer episode of #TheAndroidShow on August 27!

Posted by Anirudh Dewani – Director, Android Developer Relations

In just a few days, on Tuesday, August 27 at 10AM PT, we’ll be dropping our summer episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com. In this quarterly...

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20 Aug 2024

#WeArePlay | Meet the founders turning their passions into thriving businesses

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing

Our celebration of app and game businesses continues with #WeArePlay stories from founders around the world. Today, we’re spotlighting the people who turned their passions into thriving business...

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20 Aug 2024

Indie Games Fund: Google Play’s $2m fund in Latin America is back

Posted by Daniel Trócoli – Google Play Partnerships

Back again for 2024, we’re opening up applications for Google Play’s Indie Games Fund in Latin America - as part of our commitment to helping developers of all sizes grow on Google Play. Check o...

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14 Aug 2024

Create exceptional experiences on Pixel’s new watches and foldables

Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza – Product Management Director

Pixel just announced the latest devices coming to the Android ecosystem, including Pixel 9 Pro Fold and Pixel Watch 3. These devices bring innovation to the foldable and wearable spaces, wi...

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13 Aug 2024

Private AI For All: Our End-To-End Approach to AI Privacy on Android

Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy, and Giles Hogben, Senior Director, Privacy Engineering, Android

Your smartphone holds a lot of your personal information to help you get things done every day. On Android, we...

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13 Aug 2024

Made by Google 2024

Here’s everything we announced across Gemini and Android — plus, how we’re bringing these new capabilities to our latest Pixel devices.

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13 Aug 2024

4 new AI-powered Pixel and Android accessibility updates

These new AI-powered features across Pixel and Android help make the world even more accessible.

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13 Aug 2024

Android is reimagining your phone with Gemini

With AI at the core of Android, we’ve rebuilt Gemini and tailored it for your device, in a private and secure way.

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13 Aug 2024

#WeArePlay | How Jakub is infusing Czech mythology into his games

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing

In our latest film for #WeArePlay, which celebrates the people behind groundbreaking apps and games, Jakub takes us on a journey through the world of Amanita Design. Born in Prague, Czech Republi...

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8 Aug 2024

Android Device Streaming: Announcing Early Access to Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo Device Labs

Posted by Grant Yang (Product Manager for OmniLab) & Adarsh Fernando (Product Manager for Android Studio)

At Google I/O 2024, we announced Android Device Streaming in open beta, which allows you as a developer to more easily access and int...

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6 Aug 2024

Keeping your Android device safe from text message fraud

Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky and Roger Piqueras Jover, Android Security & Privacy Team

Cell-site simulators, also known as False Base Stations (FBS) or Stingrays, are radio devices that mimic real cell sites in order to lure mobile devices to connect...

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1 Aug 2024

Enhancing your productivity on Android devices with new features in Gmail and Google Chat apps

Update[July 31, 2024] We have temporarily paused the rollout for the ability to view a list of keyboard shortcuts in the Gmail & Chat app when pressing “?” on an external keyboard plugged into an Android device. We expect this feature to be fully r...

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25 Jul 2024

Making security easy: How we are helping you fix vulnerabilities in your Android apps

Posted by Bessie Jiang – Software Engineer and Chris Schneider – Security Engineer

Contributors: Maciej Szawłowski – Security Engineer, Hannah Barnes – Technical Program Manager, Dirk Göhmann – Technical Writer, Patrick Mutchler – Software Engineer...

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25 Jul 2024

Introducing Collections, a new on-device surface for your content

Posted by Cullen Rotroff, Product Manager, Google Play

Over the past year, the Play Store has evolved into a dynamic discovery engine for your apps and their amazing content. We continue to invest in features that connect the best app experien...

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24 Jul 2024

#WeArePlay | 153 new stories from people creating apps and games in the U.S.

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing

In 2022, #WeArePlay launched 153 stories about the people behind app and game companies across the United States. Since then, we've been on a virtual tour around the world with more stories fro...

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23 Jul 2024

The Fourth Beta of Android 15

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

Today we're bringing you Beta 4, the last scheduled update in our Android 15 beta program, so make sure your apps are ready and you've given us any critical feedback befo...

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18 Jul 2024

10 fun facts about emoji for World Emoji Day

Celebrate World Emoji Day with Google, and check out what’s new for Emoji Kitchen.

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17 Jul 2024

Prepare your app for the new Samsung Galaxy foldables and watches!

Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza – Product Management Director, Android Developer

Yesterday’s Galaxy Unpacked event from Samsung debuted the latest in foldables, wearables, and more! The event introduced the Galaxy Z Fold6 and Z Flip6 and the Galaxy W...

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11 Jul 2024

10 years ago, Android expanded to 3 new platforms

Learn more about why 2014 was a big year for Android.

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11 Jul 2024