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Product News
The Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop is here to supercharge your productivity.
Sandhya Mohan, Trevor Johns • 3 min read
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Product News
Today, the Jetpack Compose December ‘25 release is stable. This contains version 1.10 of the core Compose modules and version 1.4 of Material 3, adding new features and major performance improvements.
Nick Butcher • 6 min read
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How-tos
We wanted to provide you with examples of AI-enabled features using both on-device and Cloud models and inspire you to create delightful experiences for your users.
Thomas Ezan, Ivy Knight • 2 min read
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Product News
Android 16 QPR2 is now released and available in AOSP
Matthew McCullough • 4 min read
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Events & Programs
Jetpack Navigation 3 is now stable, and using it can help you reduce tech debt, provide better separation of concerns, speed up feature development time, and support new form factors.
Don Turner • 1 min read
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Community
In our latest #WeArePlay film, which celebrates the people behind apps and games on Google Play, we meet Chiharu - a co-founder of DELISH KITCHEN.
Robbie McLachlan • 2 min read
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Events & Programs
From the foundational powers of the R8 optimizer and Profile Guided Optimizations, to performance improvements with Jetpack Compose, to a new guide on leveling up your app's performance, we've covered the low effort, high impact tools you need to build a performant app.
Ben Weiss, Sara Hamilton • 3 min read
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How-tos
The performance leveling guide features 5 levels. We'll start with level 1, which introduces minimal adoption effort performance tooling, and we'll go up to level 5, ideal for apps that have the resourcing to maintain a bespoke performance framework.
Alice Yuan • 9 min read
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How-tos
We're covering Profile Guided Optimization, Jetpack Compose performance improvements and considerations on working behind the scenes.
Ben Weiss, Breana Tate, Jossi Wolf • 8 min read
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Product News
Jetpack Navigation 3 version 1.0 is stable!
Don Turner • 3 min read
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Product News
In the mobile ecosystem, abuse can threaten your revenue, growth, and user trust. To help developers thrive, Google Play offers a resilient threat detection service, Play Integrity API.
Dom Elliott, Eric Lynch • 5 min read
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Case Studies
Uber leveraged the Android Restore Credentials API to streamline new device sign-in, projecting a reduction of 4 million manual logins per year and increasing user retention.
Niharika Arora • 5 min read
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Product News
The Gemini 3 Pro model, released today and engineered for better coding and agentic experiences, is now available for AI assistance in the latest version of Android Studio Otter.
Tor Norbye • 1 min read
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Product News
The Android build system's primary tool for achieving a small, fast, and secure application is the R8 optimizer, the compiler that handles dead code and resource removal for shrinking, code renaming or minification, and app optimization.
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Case Studies
During their work with the Android Developer Relations team, the engineering team at Reddit used the App Performance Score to evaluate their app.
Ben Weiss • 4 min read
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How-tos
When working on new features, app performance often takes a back seat. However, while it's not always top of mind for developers, users can see exactly where your app's performance lags behind.
Ben Weiss • 3 min read
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Events & Programs
We're kicking things off with the single most impactful, low-effort change you can make to improve your app's performance: enabling the R8 optimizer in full mode.
Ben Weiss • 5 min read
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Community
In our latest #WeArePlay stories, we meet the game creators who entertain, inspire and spark imagination in players around the world on Google Play.
Robbie McLachlan • 2 min read
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Product News
The CameraX team is thrilled to announce the release of version 1.5! This latest update focuses on bringing professional-grade capabilities to your fingertips while making the camera session easier to configure than ever before.
Scott Nien • 7 min read
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How-tos
We recently announced new developer verification requirements, which serve as an additional layer of defense in our ongoing effort to keep Android users safe. We know that security works best when it accounts for the diverse ways people use our tools.
Matthew Forsythe • 3 min read
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