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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reduce ANRs when implementing mobile ads


We heard your feedback via Play Console crash reports regarding Application Not Responding (ANRs) errors related to the Google Mobile Ads SDK. After analyzing these reports, we updated our SDK implementation best practices to reduce ANR rates. The rec...
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The Third Beta of Android 15




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





Today's Android 15 Beta 3 release takes Android 15 to Platform Stability, which means that the developer APIs and all app-facing behaviors are now final for you to revi...
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3 must-know updates from Google Play at I/O ’24




Posted by Nick Sharma – Product Manager, Google Play



At Google Play, we’re passionate about helping people discover experiences they’ll love while empowering developers like you to bring your ideas to life and build successful businesses. At this...
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