Posted by Shobana Radhakrishnan – Senior Director of Engineering, Google TV, and Paul Lammertsma – Developer Relations Engineer




Over the past year, we’ve seen significant growth of Android TV OS, reaching 220 million monthly active devices with ...

Posted by Vivek Radhakrishnan – Technical Program Manager, and Seung Nam – Product Manager




With technology in cars becoming more capable, the opportunity to deliver safe and seamless connected experiences for drivers and passengers is greater th...

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



Scaling Across Screens with Jetpack Compose





The promise of Jetpack Compose has always been that a modern toolkit designed to build native UI can help you buil...

Kseniia Shumelchyk, Android Developer Relations Engineer, and Garan Jenkin, Android Developer Relations Engineer




Wear OS has seen incredible growth and advancements over the past year. With watch launches from Pixel, Samsung and more, Wear OS g...

Posted by Breana Tate - Developer Relations Engineer, Android Health




Android Health’s mission is to enable billions of Android users to be healthier through access, storage, and control of their health, fitness, and safety data. To further this ...

Posted by Anna Bernbaum – Product Manager, and Garan Jenkin – Developer Relations Engineer






At last year’s Google I/O, we launched the Watch Face Format for Wear OS. This year, as part of our continued partnership with Samsung, we are excited t...

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Product Manager, Android Developer



With Android reaching more devices, from phones to foldables to Chromebooks, building apps that seamlessly adapt to different screen sizes and types has never been more crucial. At this ye...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering




Today we're releasing the second beta of Android 15, which continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity, minimize battery impact, maximize smooth app performance, give user...

Posted by Mayank Jain – Product Manager, Android Studio




At Google I/O 2024, we announced an exciting new set of features and tools aimed at making Android development faster and easier. We also shared updates to Android Studio that will help y...

Posted by Matthew McCullough, Vice President, Product Management, Android Developer

 

AI is unlocking experiences that were not even possible a few years ago, and we’ve been hard at work reimaging Android with AI at the core, to help enable...

Posted by Chris Arriola, Developer Relations Engineer and Nick Butcher, Product Manager for Jetpack Compose





As one of the largest audio streaming platforms in the world, SoundCloud supports a network of creators who use its service to upload a...

Posted by Ben Trengrove – Developer Relations Engineer, and Nick Butcher – Product Manager for Jetpack Compose





At Google I/O 2024, we announced the upcoming June ‘24 Jetpack Compose release, packed with features designed to make Android develop...

Posted by Paul Feng, Vice President of Product Management, 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 ...

Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza – Director, Product Management, and Jeffrey van Gogh – Director, Engineering




Traditionally, developers must either write code individually for each platform they want to target, or make a number of compromises in order...

Posted by Yafit Becher – Product Manager



SDKs offer a wide range of benefits for app developers, but they can also impact apps in ways that aren’t always easy to identify or control. That’s why, in 2021, we launched Google Play SDK Console and in...

Posted by Adarsh Fernando, Senior Product Manager, Android Studio



Three years ago, we changed how we named and versioned Android Studio to make it easier to follow updates – we changed how we numbered the versions of the IDE to more closely map t...

Posted by Timothy Jordan – Director, Developer Relations and Open Source





Developers, get ready! Google I/O is just around the corner, kicking off live from Mountain View with the Google keynote on Tuesday, May 14 at 10 am PT, followed by the De...

Posted by Chris Wilk – Senior Product Manager, Android Health




At Google, we're committed to empowering developers to create innovative health and fitness experiences on Android. Over the past few years, we've been investing heavily in establishi...

Posted by Paris Hsu – Product Manager, Android Studio



Android Studio Jellyfish (2023.3.1) is making waves with its official stable release! 🪼🌊 Dive into cutting-edge AI features like Gemini in Android Studio, seamless Google services integrations...

Posted by Ben Trengrove - Developer Relations Engineer, Nick Butcher - Product Manager for Jetpack Compose




We are excited to announce that with the upcoming release of Kotlin 2.0, the Jetpack Compose compiler will move to the Kotlin repository....

Posted by Mayank Jain - Product Manager, and Yasser Dbeis - Software Engineer; Android Studio



Android developers have been telling us they're looking for tools to help optimize power consumption for different devices on Android.

The new Power P...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering



Today we're releasing the first beta of Android 15. With the progress we've made refining the features and stability of Android 15, it's time to open the experience up to both developers and early adopter...

Posted by Nick Butcher – Product Manager for Jetpack Compose, and Florina Muntenescu – Developer Relations Engineer





As one of the world’s most popular cloud-based storage services, Google Drive lets people do more than just store their files on...

Posted by Sandhya Mohan – Product Manager, Android Studio



As part of the next chapter of our Gemini era, we announced we were bringing Gemini to more products. Today we’re excited to announce that Android Studio is using the Gemini 1.0 Pro model ...

Posted by Todd Burner – Developer Relations Engineer




Cybercriminals continue to invest in advanced financial fraud scams, costing consumers more than $1 trillion in losses. According to the 2023 Global State of Scams Report by the Global Anti-Sc...

Posted by Leticia Lago – Developer Marketing





In celebration of Women’s History month, we’re celebrating the founders behind groundbreaking apps and games from around the world - made by women or for women. Let's discover four of my favorites in...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering



Today marks the second chapter of the Android 15 story with the release of Android 15 Developer Preview 2!

Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity while giv...

Posted by Jeanine Banks – VP & General Manager, Developer X, and Head of Developer Relations



Google I/O is arriving this year on May 14th and you’re invited to join us online! I/O offers something for everyone, whether you are developing a ne...

Posted by Aurash Mahbod – General Manager, Games on Google Play



We’re on a mission to make Google Play the best destination for gaming, and your amazing games are what make it possible. That’s why we’re investing in tools that empower you to achi...

Posted by Arjun Dayal, Director – Google Play Games



Making informed marketing decisions relies on identifying your most valuable user acquisition channels for your games. By tracking referral data, you can understand which traffic sources send th...

Posted by Leticia Lago – Developer Marketing




Today, we’re excited to reveal Google Play’s Indie Games Accelerator class of 2024.

Selected game studios from around the world will take part in the 10-week accelerator designed to take their busin...

Posted by Francesco Romano – Developer Relations Engineer on Android




App screen sharing improves privacy and productivity

Android 14 QPR2 brings exciting advancements in user privacy and streamlined multitasking with app screen sharing. No long...

Posted by Almaz Mingaleev – Software Engineer and Masha Khokhlova – Technical Program Manager



It's that time of year again when many of us move our clocks! Oh wait, your Android devices did it automatically, didn’t they? For Android users living ...

Posted by Geoffrey Boullanger – Senior Software Engineer, Shandor Dektor – Sensors Algorithms Engineer, Martin Frassl and Benjamin Joseph – Technical Leads and Managers



Device orientation, or attitude, is used as an input signal for many use case...

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations

Last week, Android device makers released a slew of new devices, and today we’re unpacking what that means for developers, as well as the latest in Gemini Nano, Android 15, Jetpack C...

Posted by Tatiana van Maaren – Global T&S Partnerships Lead, Privacy & Security, May Smith - Product Manager, and Anita Issagholyan – Policy Lead



With millions of developers relying on our platform, Google Play is committed to keeping our...

Posted by Ouiam Koubaa – Product Manager and Yingzhe Li – Software Engineer



Today, we’re excited to announce the release of a new Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine that is performant and reliable. Text-to-speech turns text into natural-sounding speec...

Posted by Terence Zhang – Developer Relations Engineer, Google; in partnership with Tina Ho - Partner Engineering, TPM and Kun Wang – Partner Engineering, Partner Engineer



With the first Developer Preview of Android 15 now released, another new A...

Posted by Neville Sicard-Gregory – Senior Product Manager, Android Studio



Today we are launching Android Studio Iguana 🦎 in the stable release channel to make it easier for you to create high quality apps. With features like Version Control Syste...

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations




Earlier today, at Mobile World Congress (MWC), an annual conference showcasing the latest in mobile, Android and our partners unveiled a range of new goodies, including new wearab...

Posted by Kseniia Shumelchyk, Android Developer Relations Engineer



In collaboration with our hardware partners, we’ve continued to prioritize the Wear OS by Google user experience. As such, we’ve made fundamental design changes to the platform an...

Posted by Thomas Ezan – Sr. Developer Relations Engineer; Chengji Yan, Penny Li – ML Kit Engineers; David Miro Llopis – Product Manager



We are excited to announce the launch of the ML Kit Document Scanner API. This new API makes it easy to add ad...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering



We're releasing the first Developer Preview of Android 15 today so you, our developers, can collaborate with us to build a better Android.

Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps imp...

Posted by Leticia Lago – Developer Marketing








When environmental science student Caitlin returned home from a trip monitoring sea turtles in Western Australia, she was inspired to create a conservation tool that could improve tracking of the ...

Posted by Roxanna Aliabadi Walker – Product Manager



Available now with Google Photos

Our photo picker has always been the gateway to your local media library, providing a secure, date-sorted interface for users to grant apps access to selected i...