Category: Android

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 to make Android development faster and easier, […]

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 online. With Drive, users can synchronize, share, search, edit, and even pin […]

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 adopters, so you can now enroll any supported Pixel […]

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 Profiler in Android Studio helps Android developers by showing power consumption happening […]

You might not be familiar with ROMOSS as a brand, but you only need to know two things: the vital specs and the user experience. The latter is attested to by a 4.4-star Amazon review from almost 2,000 reviews — more than ample to know you’re actually getting the specs […]

TL;DR A trusted leaker has posted a Google Pixel 8a render online. The image shows Google’s mid-ranger from various angles. The device is expected to launch next month at Google I/O. We’ve seen a few Google Pixel 8a renders and leaks already, giving us a good idea of what to […]

By Dan Albert, Software Engineer One thing that NDK users struggle with is managing native dependencies: Library authors need to maintain support for both ndk-build and CMake (and hope that their users are using one of those two options and not something else). Libraries don’t always distribute prebuilt binaries for […]

Posted by Leo Sei, Product Manager on Android Back in 2017, we released D8, a new faster dexing compiler to replace DX, producing smaller APKs. In April 2018, we announced D8 as the default option in Android Studio 3.1. In that announcement, we laid out 3 phases to deprecate DX […]

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-Scam Alliance, 78 percent of mobile users surveyed experienced at least one scam […]

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 this latest batch of nine #WeArePlay stories. Múkami Kinoti Kimotho […]