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...

Posted by Lidia Gaymond – Product Manager, Google Play



For years, Google Play has helped users enjoy the latest versions of your app through auto-updates or in-app updates. While most users update their apps this way, some may still be stuck on o...

Posted by Ben Trengrove, Android Developer Relations Engineer



Today, as part of the Compose January ‘24 Bill of Materials, we’re releasing version 1.6 of Jetpack Compose, Android's modern, native UI toolkit that is used by apps such as Threads, R...

Posted by Scarlett Asuncion – Product Marketing Manager



Indie game developers Geoffrey Mugford and Samuli Pietikainen first connected online through their shared passion for game design, before joining forces to create their own studio No Devs. L...

Posted by Leticia Lago – Developer Marketing





Being trapped inside a house following a major earthquake as a child motivated Álvaro to research and improve the outcomes of destructive, large-scale quakes in Mexico. Using SkyAlert technology, sen...

Posted by Karan Gambhir – Director, Global Trust and Safety Partnerships




As a platform, we strive to help developers responsibly build new businesses and reach wider audiences across a variety of content types and genres. In response to strong d...

Posted by Meher Vurimi, Product Manager




Since we launched Google Cast in 2013, we've been working to bring casting capabilities to more apps and devices. We have come a long way. Now, users can cast to many new devices, like TVs, speakers, smart...

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations



Hello Android Developers,

As we approach the end of 2023, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on all that we've accomplished together as a community, and send a huge *thank you* ...

Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer



TL;DR: Remove unnecessary feature requirements that prevent users from downloading your app on devices that don’t support the features. Automate tracking feature requirements and maximize app av...

Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Marketing



As we bid farewell to 2023, we're excited to unveil our last #WeArePlay blog post of the year. From Lisbon to Dubai, let’s meet the creators behind the game-changing apps supporting communities, bringin...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering




Last week we unveiled our most capable foundation model, Gemini. Gemini is multimodal – it can accept both text and image inputs. We introduced a way for Android developers to leverage our smallest mod...

Posted by Chris Wailes - Senior Software Engineer



The performance, safety, and developer productivity provided by Rust has led to rapid adoption in the Android Platform. Since slower build times are a concern when using Rust, particularly within ...

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang – Software Engineer, and Jiaxiang Chen – Software Engineer




The Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) tool provides a high-level API for doing meta-programming in Kotlin. Many tools have been built on KSP, enabling Kotlin code...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering





Foundation Models learn from a diverse range of data sources to produce AI systems capable of adapting to a wide range of tasks, instead of being trained for a single narrow use case. Today, we announced ...

Posted by Sandeep Patil – Principal Software Engineer, and Irene Ang – Product Manager



The Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) will be available on upcoming select Android 14 devices. The AVF, first introduced in Android 13 on Pixel devices, p...

Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Product Manager



Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Hedgehog 🦔 : The official IDE for building Android apps!

In this Android Studio release, we have upgraded the IntelliJ platform to 2...

Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer




NordVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) app that protects users while they’re browsing the web by providing them a more secure and private connection. As a network utility, NordVPN’s us...

Posted by Sam Bright, Vice President & General Manager, Google Play



Hello everyone,

Since joining the team at the start of this year, I’ve been continuously inspired by our incredible community of people building apps and games, and it’s bee...

Posted by Paul Feng – Vice President of Product Management, Google Play




Our annual Playtime event series kicks off tomorrow, with announcements from our product teams and insights from local Google experts. If you’re not one of the attendees joi...

Posted by Arjun Dayal, Director, Google Play Games



Since we launched Google Play Games on PC beta last year, the product has seen a tremendous amount of growth. Now offering over 3,000 titles, Google Play Games on PC currently reaches users in mo...

Posted by Fred Chung, Android Developer Relations



Snapchat is a visual messaging app that enhances Snapchatters’ relationships with friends, family, and the world. It opens to the camera and offers millions of augmented reality and AI-powered Len...

Posted by Santiago Aboy Solanes - Software Engineer



The Android Runtime (ART) executes Dalvik bytecode produced from apps and system services written in the Java or Kotlin languages. We constantly improve ART to generate smaller and more performa...

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 ...

Posted by Aditya Kumar – Software Engineer



Context

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...

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...

Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Marketing





Another month, another series of #WeArePlay stories from apps and games we all love. From a Salt Lake City-based music editing app to successful game studios from Indonesia, Uruguay and Türkiye - disc...

Posted by Yasmine Evjen – Product Manager, and Florina Muntenescu – Developer Relations Engineer




Following its release in July of 2023, Meta’s Threads became the most rapidly downloaded app ever with over 100 million downloads in its first week....