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How to quickly share content with nearby devices

Want to send photos, links or text to a friend or family member? Quick Share lets you send content between nearby devices in just a few taps.

Google

8 Feb 2024

Piloting new ways of protecting Android users from financial fraud

Posted by Eugene Liderman, Director of Mobile Security Strategy, Google

From its founding, Android has been guided by principles of openness, transparency, safety, and choice. Android gives you the freedom to choose which device best fits your needs,...

Google

7 Feb 2024

6 cybersecurity mistakes people make — and what to do instead

Google's experts walk through the all-too-common cybersecurity mistakes people make online, and what to do instead. Read on to learn more about which habits you should d…

Google

6 Feb 2024

Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++

Posted by Lars Bergstrom – Director, Android Platform Tools & Libraries and Chair of the Rust Foundation Board

Back in 2021, we announced that Google was joining the Rust Foundation. At the time, Rust was already in wide use across Android and ot...

Google

5 Feb 2024

Prompt users to update to your latest app version

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...

Google

29 Jan 2024

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose January ’24 release

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...

Google

24 Jan 2024

How This Indie Game Studio Launched Their First Game on Google Play

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...

Google

18 Jan 2024

The power of Google AI comes to the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series

Check out the ways Google and Samsung are collaborating to bring the latest Google AI innovations to Samsung’s flagship smartphones.

Google

17 Jan 2024

#WeArePlay | Learn how a childhood experience with an earthquake shaped Álvaro’s entrepreneurial journey

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...

Google

17 Jan 2024

5 games to play on Android tablets and foldable phones

See how these five games make the most of the larger screen space on Android tablets and foldable phones.

Google

16 Jan 2024

A New Approach to Real-Money Games on Google Play

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...

Google

12 Jan 2024

CES 2024: Top 4 Android experiences to try out

Check out four Android demos you can experience at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Google

9 Jan 2024

What we announced at CES 2024

Do more with Google on your Android devices with new ways to help your devices work better together.

Google

9 Jan 2024

What’s new with Android for cars at CES

The latest navigation, apps and entertainment updates for Android Auto and cars with Google built-in announced at CES 2024.

Google

9 Jan 2024

What’s new with Google Cast?

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...

Google

9 Jan 2024

Thank you for creating excellent apps, across devices in 2023!

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* ...

Google

19 Dec 2023

Reaffirming choice and openness on Android and Google Play

An overview of the details of a settlement reached with State Attorneys General.

Google

18 Dec 2023

Increase your app’s availability across device types

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...

Google

18 Dec 2023

#WeArePlay | Meet Steven from Indonesia. More stories from around the world.

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...

Google

18 Dec 2023

Leverage Gemini in your Android apps

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...

Google

13 Dec 2023

Faster Rust Toolchains for Android

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 ...

Google

12 Dec 2023

Improvements to using Spanish in Search and Gboard

We’re integrating the Spain Royal Academy of Language lexicon into Gboard and their dictionary into Search.

Google

12 Dec 2023

Hardening cellular basebands in Android

Posted by Ivan Lozano and Roger Piqueras Jover

Android’s defense-in-depth strategy applies not only to the Android OS running on the Application Processor (AP) but also the firmware that runs on devices. We particularly prioritize hardening the cellu...

Google

12 Dec 2023

KSP2 Preview: Kotlin K2 and Standalone Source Generator

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...

Google

7 Dec 2023

A New Foundation for AI on Android

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 ...

Google

6 Dec 2023

Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive

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...

Google

5 Dec 2023

Android Studio Hedgehog is stable

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...

Google

30 Nov 2023

New features to celebrate Messages’ 1 billion RCS users

Google Messages welcomes a new era of personalized messaging with 7 new features to help your personality shine through.

Google

30 Nov 2023

Unbox 11 new Android features and updates

Android is announcing new features rolling out now and in the coming weeks.

Google

30 Nov 2023

NordVPN boosted the speed of its login user flow by 60% using Baseline Profiles

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...

Google

29 Nov 2023

A Recap of 2023’s Top Entertainment on Google TV

Google TV released the top movies and shows from 2023 in collections like “most-watched movies”, “most-watchlisted” and others.

Google

29 Nov 2023

Notes from Google Play: Celebrating another year of partnership and innovation

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...

Google

29 Nov 2023

The latest updates to power your growth on Google Play

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...

Google

15 Nov 2023

Google Play Games on PC brings new features to accelerate growth

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...

Google

15 Nov 2023

Snapchat integrated new camera features 50% faster with the Camera2 Extensions API

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...

Google

14 Nov 2023

Bringing New Input Support to Desktop AVD

Posted by Joshua Hale – Software Engineer

As large screens become increasingly important within the Android app ecosystem, we are committed to enhance tools to help Android developers adapt their apps for these large screen form factors. In doing...

Google

14 Nov 2023

The secret to Android’s improved memory on 1B+ Devices: The latest Android Runtime update

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...

Google

13 Nov 2023

Ensuring high-quality apps on Google Play

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 ...

Google

9 Nov 2023

Evolving the App Defense Alliance

Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team

The App Defense Alliance (ADA), an industry-leading collaboration launched by Google in 2019 dedicated to ensuring the safety of the app ecosystem, is taking a major step forward. We are...

Google

8 Nov 2023

MTE – The promising path forward for memory safety

Posted by Andy Qin, Irene Ang, Kostya Serebryany, Evgenii Stepanov

Since 2018, Google has partnered with ARM and collaborated with many ecosystem partners (SoCs vendors, mobile phone OEMs, etc.) to develop Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) technology. ...

Google

7 Nov 2023

Order Files in Android

Posted by Aditya Kumar – Software Engineer

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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...

Google

7 Nov 2023

Alpha Release of Telecom Library

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...

Google

2 Nov 2023

Increasing trust for embedded media

Posted by the Android team

Android WebView is a powerful and flexible API that Android developers can use to embed media in their apps, and continually improving its security and privacy protections is a top priority for our team. For example, em...

Google

2 Nov 2023

More ways for users to identify independently security tested apps on Google Play

Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team

Keeping Google Play safe for users and developers remains a top priority for Google. As users increasingly prioritize their digital privacy and security, we continue to invest in our Dat...

Google

2 Nov 2023

#WeArePlay | Meet Geraldo from Utah. More stories from around the world.

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...

Google

2 Nov 2023

Meta built threads in only 5 months using Jetpack Compose

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....

Google

27 Oct 2023

Make the passkey endpoints well-known URL part of your passkey implementation

Posted by Amy Zeppenfeld – Developer Relations Engineer

Passkeys are leading the charge towards a more secure future without passwords. Passkeys are a new type of cryptographic credential that leverages FIDO2 and WebAuthn to provide an authentica...

Google

26 Oct 2023

Updates to Google Identity Services (GIS) and migration to the Credential Manager API

Posted by Kateryna Semenova – Developer Relations Engineer, Diego Zavala and Gina Biernacki – Product Managers

Introducing Credential Manager

At Google, we are dedicated to improving the sign in experience across platforms for developers and use...

Google

26 Oct 2023

Simple and secure sign-in on Android with Credential Manager and passkeys

Posted by Diego Zavala, Product Manager

We are excited to announce that the public release of Credential Manager will be available starting on November 1st. Credential Manager brings the future of authentication to Android, simplifying how users ...

Google

25 Oct 2023

Announcing Policy Updates To Support App Quality on Google Play

Posted by Karina Newton, Senior Director, Global Product Policy, Developer Policies

The Android community expects safe and high-quality experiences, which directly influences the long-term success of your app or game in terms of installs, user r...

Google

25 Oct 2023

Grow your game on Google Play with the Indie Games Accelerator – submissions now open

Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Marketing

At Google Play, we’re committed to helping app and game businesses of all sizes reach their full potential. That’s why we’re excited to announce we have opened submissions for the Indie Games Accelerato...

Google

24 Oct 2023

Upcoming Android Events

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations

One of our favorite things to do is connect with Android developers–like you–around the world, and it’s even more fun when we’re able to do so in person. Earlier this year, we had ...

Google

19 Oct 2023

With 2X higher user engagement on tablets, Zoom optimized for large screens on Android

Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza, Director, Android Developer Relations

Zoom is an all-in-one collaboration platform. Whether supporting work streams through video, chat, or the platform’s smart recordings and whiteboard tools, the team at Zoom aims to...

Google

19 Oct 2023

#TheAndroidShow: Faster and easier to build excellent apps, across devices.

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations

We just wrapped another episode of #TheAndroidShow; in the show, we covered the latest in Android development, including a look at the new Pixel watch and the world of wearables, g...

Google

19 Oct 2023

Enhanced Google Play Protect real-time scanning for app installs

Posted by Steve Kafka, Group Product Manager and Roman Kirillov, Senior Engineering Manager

Mobile devices have supercharged our modern lives, helping us do everything from purchasing goods in store and paying bills online to storing financial data,...

Google

18 Oct 2023

Join us online from 23-27 October for Passkeys Week

Posted by Milica Mihajlija, Technical Writer

Passkeys are a safer and simpler alternative to passwords that works on all modern browsers and platforms. They enable signing into online accounts by using a device screen lock–with a fingerprint, fac...

Google

18 Oct 2023

Google’s Contacts app created a new widget 25% faster using Jetpack Glance

Posted by Andre Labonte, the Glance API.

With over a billion downloads on Google Play, Google’s Contacts app is many Android users’ primary tool for viewing and organizing their personal contact information. Contacts developers aim to make the a...

Google

17 Oct 2023

AndroidX moving to minSdkVersion 19

Posted by Aurimas Liutikas, Software Engineer on AndroidX

AndroidX libraries are moving to a default minimum supported Android API level 19 (previously 14) starting with releases in October, 2023. According to Play Store check-in data, nearly a...

Google

16 Oct 2023

Tune in for another episode of #TheAndroidShow on October 19!

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations

In just a few days, on Thursday, October 19 at 10AM PT, we’ll be kicking off another episode of #TheAndroidShow, live on YouTube and on developer.android.com! In this episode, we’ll ...

Google

12 Oct 2023

Bare-metal Rust in Android

Posted by Andrew Walbran, Android Rust Team

Last year we wrote about how moving native code in Android from C++ to Rust has resulted in fewer security vulnerabilities. Most of the components we mentioned then were system services in userspace (runni...

Google

9 Oct 2023