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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 applications have historically been built and optimized to run with a 4 KB page size. ARM CPUs support the larger 16 KB page size. When Android uses this larger page

3 fun experiments to try for your next Android app, using Google AI Studio Posted by Paris Hsu – Product Manager, Android Studio We shared an exciting live demo from the Developer Keynote at Google I/O 2024 where Gemini transformed a wireframe sketch of an app's UI into Jetpack Compose code, directly within Android Studio. While we're still refining this feature to make sure you get a great experi

Android Support for Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) to Share Business Logic Across Mobile, Web, Server, and Desktop Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza – Director, Product Management, and Jeffrey van Gogh – Director, Engineering Traditionally, developers must either write code individually for each platform they want to target, or make a number of compromises in order to reuse code across platforms. Android has

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 Gemini, our most capable model yet. Gemini was designed for flexibility, so it can run on everything from data centers to mobile devices. It's been optimize

Posted by Kobi Gluck, Director of Product Management, Google Play December 11, 2024 Update We’ve heard from some developers, who are starting with small audiences, that getting 20 testers has been challenging. So to reduce the difficulty for smaller developers but still maintain a high quality app experience for everyone, starting today, we’re requiring 12 instead of 20 testers for personal develo

Posted by Serban Constantinescu, Product Manager Wouldn’t it be great if each update improved start-up times, execution speed, and memory usage of your apps? Google Play system updates for the Android Runtime (ART) do just that. These updates deliver performance improvements, the latest security fixes, and unify the core OpenJDK APIs across hundreds of millions of devices, including all Android 12

Today, coinciding with Google I/O, we're releasing the second Beta of Android 14. Google I/O includes sessions covering many of Android 14's new features in detail, and Beta 2 includes enhancements around camera and media, privacy and security, system UI, and developer productivity. We're continuing to improve the large-screen device experience, and the Android 14 beta program is now available for

Introducing the Android Design Hub: The ultimate resource for building exceptional user interfaces across all form factors Posted by Adhithya Ramakumar, Design Lead, Android Developer Experience and Rebecca Gutteridge, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Cross posted from Android Medium We’re introducing the Android Design Hub to make it easier to build compelling UI across form factors.

Mercari reduces 355K lines of code, a 69% difference, by rebuilding with Jetpack Compose Posted by the Android team In 2020, the Mercari team took on a big initiative to update its app’s technical infrastructure. At the time, its codebase was seven years old and hadn’t undergone any major architectural updates. This affected the team’s ability to develop new features and release timely app updates

Posted by Nevin Mital - Developer Relations Engineer, Android Media Today, we’re pleased to announce the full release of the Jetpack Media3 library. After sharing a first look at the library at Android Developer Summit 2021, we published several alpha and beta releases over the past several months to ensure a high-quality set of APIs that we now encourage everyone to adopt. Media3 is the new home

Now's the time to learn Android development with Jetpack Compose! Posted by Murat Yener, Developer Relations Engineer We are thrilled to announce that the full Android Basics with Compose course is now available. Whether you're a beginner with no programming experience, or a developer looking to learn Jetpack Compose and brush up on their Android development skills, it's a great time to start lear

Improving user privacy by requiring opt-in to send X-Requested-With header from WebView Posted by Peter Birk Pakkenberg, Software Engineer X-Requested-With (XRW) is a nonstandard header. When a user installs and runs an application that uses a WebView to embed web content, the WebView will add the X-Requested-With header on every request sent to servers, with a value of the application APK name. I

Posted by Anton Hansson, Software EngineerAndroid 10 and higher support Modular System Components that allow us to expedite functional and security updates to the Android ecosystem outside of major API level releases and make new functionality backward compatible on already-released Android versions. These improvements help make development more flexible and broaden the reach for app developers. W

Posted by Serban Constantinescu, Product Manager,Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are the first Android phones to support only 64-bit apps. This configuration drops OS support for 32-bit code, reducing memory usage, improving performance, and enhancing security. Over time, we expect this device configuration to become commonplace. Thanks to the efforts and collaboration of the entire Android community, our

Posted by Diego Zavala, Product Manager (Android), Christiaan Brand, Product Manager (Account Security), Ali Naddaf, Software Engineer (Identity Ecosystems), Ken Buchanan, Software Engineer (Chrome) Explore passkeys on Android & Chrome starting today Starting today, Google is bringing passkey support to both Android and Chrome. Passkeys are a significantly safer replacement for passwords and other

We recently announced the Privacy Sandbox on Android to enable new advertising solutions that improve user privacy, and provide developers and businesses with the tools to succeed on mobile. Since the announcement, we've heard from developers across the ecosystem on our initial design proposals. Your feedback is critical to ensure we build solutions that work for everyone, so please continue to sh

Expanding Play’s Target Level API Requirements to Strengthen User Security Google Play helps our developer community distribute the world's most innovative and trusted apps to billions of people. This is an ongoing process and we're always working on ways to improve app safety across the ecosystem. In addition to the Google Play features and policies that are central to providing a safe experience

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Last month, we released the first developer preview of Android 13, built around our core themes of privacy and security, developer productivity, as well as tablets and large screen support. Today we’re sharing Android 13 Developer Preview 2 with more new features and changes for you to try in your apps. Your input helps us make Android a better platform for

Posted by Lidia Gaymond and Vicki Amin, Product Managers at Google Play One of the main reasons users uninstall apps is to free up space. To prevent unnecessary uninstalls and help users get more out of their devices, we started working on a new feature that would enable app archiving. Archiving is a new functionality that will allow users to reclaim ~60% of app storage temporarily by removing par

Synthetic properties to access views were created as a way to eliminate the common boilerplate of findViewById calls. These synthetics are provided by JetBrains in the Kotlin Android Extensions Gradle plugin (not to be confused with Android KTX). In November 2020, we announced that this plugin has been deprecated in favor of better solutions, and we recommended removing the plugin from your projec

Posted by the Google and Facebook teams. Authored by Kateryna Semenova from the Google Android team and Tim Trueman, Steven Harris, Subramanian Ramaswamy from the Facebook team. Introduction Improving app startup time is not a trivial task and requires a deep understanding of things that affect it. This year, the Google Android team and the Facebook app team have been working together on metrics a

We are always looking for ways to make learning Android development accessible for all. In 2020, we announced the launch of Android Basics in Kotlin, a free self-paced programming course. Since then, over 100,000 beginners have completed their first milestone in the course. Android Basics in Kotlin teaches people with no programming experience how to build simple Android apps. Along the way, stude

Today we’re pushing the source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the latest version of Android. Keep an eye out for Android 12 coming to a device near you starting with Pixel in the next few weeks and Samsung Galaxy, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Tecno, Vivo, and Xiaomi devices later this year. As always, thank you for your feedback during Android 12 Beta! More than 225,0

Google Play services discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean (API levels 16, 17 & 18) Posted by Vikas Kansal, Product Manager, Google Play services The Android Jelly Bean (JB) platform was first released 9 years ago and as of July 2021, the active device count is below 1%. Since then Android has released a lot of improvements and features which are not all backported to Jelly Bean. This results in in

Posted by Dom Elliott, Product Manager at Google Play Since we launched the Android App Bundle in May 2018, we’ve seen our developer community embrace this new standard to benefit from streamlined releases and advanced distribution features. There are now over 1 million apps using app bundles in production, including the majority of the top 1,000 apps and games on Google Play such as Adobe, Duolin

Posted by Karen Ng, Director, Product Management & Jacob Lehrbaum, Director of Developer Relations, Android & Play As Android developers, we are all driven by building experiences that delight people around the world. And with people depending on your apps more than ever, expectations are higher and your jobs as developers aren’t getting easier. Today, at Google I/O, we covered a few ways that we’