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Back in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Since then, we have enhanced the benchmark based on your feedback, including evaluating open-weight models and adding cost and efficiency dimensions to the leaderboard.
Zoe Lopez-Latorre • 3 min read
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Product NewsToday, we officially celebrate five years since the release of Jetpack Compose 1.0. From version 1.0, announced on July 28th, 2021, to our latest 1.11 release, we’ve seen the APIs evolve significantly over the years, and we’re taking a moment to celebrate.
Rebecca Franks, Nick Butcher, Loryn Hairston • 5 min read -
Case StudiesWith the majority of Android apps adopting Kotlin as their main language of choice, kotlinx.coroutines has become a de-facto standard for asynchronous programming. The library offers a well-designed and structured way of managing concurrent flows that is native to Kotlin.
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Today at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung unveiled its latest lineup of foldable and wearable devices. For developers, this means that the variety of form factors, screen sizes, and device postures your app needs to support is expanding once again.
Fahd Imtiaz, Miguel Montemayor • 3 min read -
How-tosWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we introduced Jetpacker, the demo app we'll use throughout this series.
Caren Chang • 6 min read -
How-tosWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience.
Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang • 8 min read -
How-tosJetpacker is a technical showcase app that our team built from the ground up for this year's Google I/O (built using Antigravity). At its core, Jetpacker helps users plan, explore, and enjoy their next big adventure.
Jolanda Verhoef • 4 min read
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18% Faster Compiles, 0% Compromises
The Android Runtime (ART) team has reduced compile time by 18% without compromising the compiled code or any peak memory regressions. This improvement was part of our 2025 initiative to improve compile time without sacrificing memory usage or the quality of the compiled code.
Santiago Aboy Solanes, Vladimír Marko • 8 min read
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Accelerating your insights with faster, smarter monetization data and recommendations
Today, we’re announcing a suite of upgrades to the Google Play Console and beyond, giving you greater visibility into your financial performance and specific, data-backed steps to improve it.
Phalene Gowling • 2 min read
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Android 16 QPR2 is Released
Android 16 QPR2 is now released and available in AOSP
Matthew McCullough • 4 min read
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