AppSheet databases: Build data driven apps for Google Workspace

To better help our users become successful app creators, we’re excited to introduce a new feature entering public preview: AppSheet databases. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 1 year ago

Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to Android and Chrome

developers can enroll in the Google Play Services beta and use Chrome Canary. Both features will be generally available on stable channels | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 1 year ago

Google Sunsets Conversational Actions

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 1 year ago

Making Google OAuth interactions safer by using more secure OAuth flows

At Google, we constantly strive to provide safer ways for users to sign-in and share their Google account data with third-party applications. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

The first developer preview of Privacy Sandbox on Android

Posted by Fred Chung, Android Developer Relations   We recently announced the Privacy Sandbox on Android to enable new advert... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Expanding Play’s Target Level API Requirements to Strengthen User Security

Posted by Krish Vitaldevara, Director, Product Management   Google Play helps our developer community distribute the world's m... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Google to allow Android apps to implement their own billing systems

Posted by Sameer Samat, Vice President, Product Management Mobile apps have transformed our lives. They help us stay informed and ... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

The Google Forms API

How to leverage the new Google Forms API for a variety of use cases. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Migrating Google Play Store to Jetpack Compose

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@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Freeing up 60% of storage for apps

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Google Discontinuing Google Sign-In JavaScript Platform Library

On March 31, 2023 we will fully retire the Google Sign-In JavaScript Platform Library. Here's what that means for you. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) Stable

Posted by Adarsh Fernando , Product Manager, Android The Android Studio team has been abuzz with the stable release of Androi... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Service charge on Google Play store will drop to 15% next year

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Google OAuth incremental authorization improvement

Today we are announcing an OAuth consent experience that simplifies how users can share data with apps. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Android 12 is live in AOSP

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang, Software Engineer and Jiaxiang Chen, Software Engineer Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), our new too... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Making Ratings and Reviews better for users and developers (Android)

Posted by Tom Grinsted, Scott Lin, and Tat Yang Koh, Product Managers at Google Play Ratings and reviews are important. They provide... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

The Android Game Development Kit

Posted by Posted by Scott Carbon-Ogden, Product Manager Android Games Today we’re launching the Android Game Developmen... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

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... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

The future of Android App Bundles is here

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Google will consider lowering Play Store cut to 15% for certain apps

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Android 12 Beta 2 is introducing new features for Privacy

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

What’s new in Android 12 Beta

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

New safety section in Google Play will give transparency into how apps use data

Posted by Suzanne Frey, VP, Product, Android Security and Privacy We work closely with developers to keep Google Play a safe , t... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 2 years ago

Android Studio 4.2

Posted by Jamal Eason , Product Manager, Android We are excited to announce that Android Studio 4.2 is now available to dow... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Android GPU Compute Going Forward (Renderscript Deprecation)

Posted by Dan Galpin , Developer Advocate We introduced RenderScript in Android 3.0 as a way for applications to run computational... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Boosting developer success on Google Play

Posted by Sameer Samat, VP, Product Management Helping developers build sustainable businesses is a core part of Google Play’s missi... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

An update on Android's audio latency

Posted by Don Turner - Android Developer Relations Engineer This article takes a look at what's changed in the Android ecosystem for... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Flutter 2

Today, we’re announcing Flutter 2: a major upgrade to Flutter that enables developers to create beautiful, fast, and portable apps for any platform. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Jetpack Compose Beta

Posted by Anna-Chiara Bellini , Product Manager, Nick Butcher , Developer Relations Today, we’re launching the beta release of... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Announcing Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) Alpha

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang ‎, Software Engineer and David Winer , Product Manager Today we are excited to announce the alpha of ... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Google Developers Blog: Get Ready to Up Your Apps Script

It’s been a little over a decade since Apps Script was introduced as the development platform to automate and extend Google Workspace. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Improving urban GPS accuracy for your app

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

New Android App Bundle and target API level requirements in 2021

Posted by Hoi Lam , Developer Relations Engineer, Android Platform In 2021, we are continuing with our annual target API level up... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Welcome Android Open Source Project (AOSP) to the Bazel Ecosystem

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Daring to code: How one young developer found a way in rural community in Russia

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Android Developers: Privacy-Preserving Features in the Mobile Driving License

Posted by David Zeuthen, Shawn Willden and René Mayrhofer, Android Security and Privacy team In the United States and other coun... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Announcing the launch of the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative

Posted by Kylie McRoberts, Program Manager and Alec Guertin, Security Engineer Google’s Android Security & Privacy team has lau... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Android GPU Inspector Open Beta

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Android 11 Released

Posted by Stephanie Cuthbertson, Director, Product Management Android 11 is here! Today we’re pushing the source to the Android Open... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Guidance to developers affected by our effort to block less secure browsers/apps

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Jetpack Compose Alpha is released

Posted by Karen Ng , Director, Product Management Today, we’re releasing the alpha of Jetpack Compose , our modern UI toolkit desig... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

New language features and more in Kotlin 1.4

Posted by Wojtek Kaliciński, Developer Advocate, Android When we adopted Kotlin as a supported language on Android, and then shifted... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Accelerating Android Updates

Posted by Eddie Hsu (Technical Program Manager), Brent VerWeyst (Product Manager), Maya Ben Ari (Product Manager), Amith Dsouza (Technica... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

A New Wave of AR Realism with the ARCore Depth API

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events. | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

The new Google Play Console beta

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


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

Android Studio 4.0

Posted by Adarsh Fernando, Product Manager During these uncertain times, we’re humbled by the many developers around the world who a... | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 3 years ago