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



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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...

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....

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Marketing




We continue to be inspired by the amazing #WeArePlay stories of app and game creators on Google Play, from all corners of the Earth. This month, hear about a game changing financial app for women in Ni...

Posted by Kseniia Shumelchyk, Android Developer Relations Engineer and Kevin Hufnagle, Android Technical Writer



Google Pixel Watch 2 is here and brings the capabilities of Wear OS 4 to users; get your app ready for the latest software and devices...