developers can enroll in the Google Play Services beta and use Chrome Canary. Both features will be generally available on stable channels | Continue reading
Posted by Fred Chung, Android Developer Relations We recently announced the Privacy Sandbox on Android to enable new advert... | Continue reading
Posted by Krish Vitaldevara, Director, Product Management Google Play helps our developer community distribute the world's m... | Continue reading
Posted by Sameer Samat, Vice President, Product Management Mobile apps have transformed our lives. They help us stay informed and ... | Continue reading
Posted by Lidia Gaymond and Vicki Amin, Product Managers at Google Play One of the main reasons users uninstall apps is to free up spa... | Continue reading
Posted by Adarsh Fernando , Product Manager, Android The Android Studio team has been abuzz with the stable release of Androi... | Continue reading
Posted by Sameer Samat, Vice President, Product Management When we started Android and Google Play more than a decade ago, we made a b... | Continue reading
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today we’re pushing the source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially re... | Continue reading
Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang, Software Engineer and Jiaxiang Chen, Software Engineer Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), our new too... | Continue reading
Posted by Tom Grinsted, Scott Lin, and Tat Yang Koh, Product Managers at Google Play Ratings and reviews are important. They provide... | Continue reading
Posted by Posted by Scott Carbon-Ogden, Product Manager Android Games Today we’re launching the Android Game Developmen... | Continue reading
Posted by Vikas Kansal, Product Manager, Google Play services The Android Jelly Bean (JB) platform was first released 9 years ago and... | Continue reading
Posted by Dom Elliott, Product Manager at Google Play Since we launched the Android App Bundle in May 2018, we’ve seen our dev... | Continue reading
Posted by Purnima Kochikar, VP of Play Partnerships As we highlighted in March , our mission is to help all developers succeed and b... | Continue reading
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Just a few weeks ago at Google I/O we unwrapped the first beta of Android 12, focusing ... | Continue reading
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today at Google I/O we unveiled the first Beta of Android 12, one of our most ambitious ... | Continue reading
Posted by Suzanne Frey, VP, Product, Android Security and Privacy We work closely with developers to keep Google Play a safe , t... | Continue reading
Posted by Jamal Eason , Product Manager, Android We are excited to announce that Android Studio 4.2 is now available to dow... | Continue reading
Posted by Dan Galpin , Developer Advocate We introduced RenderScript in Android 3.0 as a way for applications to run computational... | Continue reading
Posted by Sameer Samat, VP, Product Management Helping developers build sustainable businesses is a core part of Google Play’s missi... | Continue reading
Posted by Don Turner - Android Developer Relations Engineer This article takes a look at what's changed in the Android ecosystem for... | Continue reading
Posted by Anna-Chiara Bellini , Product Manager, Nick Butcher , Developer Relations Today, we’re launching the beta release of... | Continue reading
Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang , Software Engineer and David Winer , Product Manager Today we are excited to announce the alpha of ... | Continue reading
Posted by Frank van Diggelen, Principal Engineer and Jennifer Wang, Product Manager At Android, we want to make it as easy as possibl... | Continue reading
Posted by Hoi Lam , Developer Relations Engineer, Android Platform In 2021, we are continuing with our annual target API level up... | Continue reading
Posted by David Zeuthen, Shawn Willden and René Mayrhofer, Android Security and Privacy team In the United States and other coun... | Continue reading
Posted by Kylie McRoberts, Program Manager and Alec Guertin, Security Engineer Google’s Android Security & Privacy team has lau... | Continue reading
Posted by Jay Kong, Gaming and Graphics Product Manager With the rollout of Android 11 on Pixel, Android GPU Inspector (AGI) has gra... | Continue reading
Posted by Stephanie Cuthbertson, Director, Product Management Android 11 is here! Today we’re pushing the source to the Android Open... | Continue reading
Posted by Karen Ng , Director, Product Management Today, we’re releasing the alpha of Jetpack Compose , our modern UI toolkit desig... | Continue reading
Posted by Wojtek Kaliciński, Developer Advocate, Android When we adopted Kotlin as a supported language on Android, and then shifted... | Continue reading
Posted by Eddie Hsu (Technical Program Manager), Brent VerWeyst (Product Manager), Maya Ben Ari (Product Manager), Amith Dsouza (Technica... | Continue reading
Posted by Tom Grinsted, Product Manager, Google Play Console Over the years, we’ve seen our community grow to well over a million dev... | Continue reading
Posted by Adarsh Fernando, Product Manager During these uncertain times, we’re humbled by the many developers around the world who a... | Continue reading
Posted by Lily Sheringham , Global Marketing, Platforms & Ecosystems UPDATE: We have updated the launch date of some of the episodes du... | Continue reading
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering When we started planning Android 11, we didn’t expect the kinds of changes that would find t... | Continue reading
The current situation has impacted all of us, and the Google Play team is focused on making sure we support our developer community however we can. In these challenging times, with so many people in need of information, communication tools, entertainment, and more, Google Play is … | Continue reading
For a long time, phones have had a display that refreshes at 60Hz. Application and game developers could just assume that the refresh rate is 60Hz, frame deadline is 16.6ms, and things would just work. This is no longer the case. New flagship devices are built with higher refresh … | Continue reading
As part of the Android 11 developer preview we’ve released Android 11 system images, which are capable of executing ARM binaries with significantly improved performance. Previously, developers who were dependent on ARM libraries and could not build an x86 variant of their app eit … | Continue reading
As part of the Android 11 developer preview we’ve released Android 11 system images, which are capable of executing ARM binaries with significantly improved performance. Previously, developers who were dependent on ARM libraries and could not build an x86 variant of their app eit … | Continue reading
Last May at Google I/O, we announced that Android was going Kotlin first, and now over 60% of the top 1000 Android apps use Kotlin. One feature we love about Kotlin is that nullability is baked into its type system — when declaring a reference, you say upfront whether it can hold … | Continue reading
The latest Android and Google Play news and tips for app and game developers. | Continue reading
Last year, we made several changes to our platform and policies to increase user trust and safety. We’re proud of the work we’ve done to improve family safety, limit use of sensitive permissions, and catch bad actors before they ever reach the Play Store. | Continue reading
Android has led the way towards the future of mobile, with new technologies like 5G to foldable displays to machine learning built into the core. A hallmark of our approach is a strong developer community that provides early and thoughtful feedback, helping us deliver a robust pl … | Continue reading
AOSP has been around for a while, but flashing builds onto a development device has always required a number of manual steps. A year ago we launched Android's Continuous Integration Dashboard, which gives more visibility into the continuous build status of the AOSP source tree. H … | Continue reading
Searching for "it's all about the code" open source on Google returns more than a million hits. Today we’re introducing a public code search tool for the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). | Continue reading
When we announced Kotlin as a supported language for Android, there was a tremendous amount of excitement among developers. Since then, there has been a steady increase in the number of developers using Kotlin. Today, we’re proud to say nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android apps co … | Continue reading