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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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Supporting AVIF in Google Search



Over the recent years, AVIF has become one of the most commonly used image formats on the web.
We're happy to announce that AVIF is now a supported file type
in Google Search, for Google Images as well as any place that ...
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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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New host controls for add-ons in Google Meet

What’s changing We’re giving meeting hosts and co-hosts the ability to control the use of add-ons during meetings* with a new setting. We hope this new setting helps keep meetings on task and productive by allowing hosts to control access to add-o...
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