Develop for Android
The code samples, guides, and API reference you need—whether you're building for phones, watches, tablets, laptops, foldables, TVs, or cars. Take advantage of these resources to develop your app faster and with higher quality.
Download samples
Accelerate your app development by example.
Develop with Android Studio
Code in the IDE custom-built for Android.
Browse API reference
Find information about the Android APIs you're using.
Devices
Large screens
Extend your mobile app to tablets and foldables.
Wear OS
Create an app for watches running Wear OS.
Android TV
Extend your app for TV viewing.
ChromeOS
Build and optimize your app for ChromeOS.
Android for Cars
Extend your app for vehicle dashboard use.
Cross device SDK
Easily make your app compatible with multiple devices.
Health Connect
Tap into and share on-device health and fitness data.
Assistant
Enable voice control in your app.
Developer centers
New
Media apps developer center
Learn how to build and extend engaging media experiences to users across Android's multidevice ecosystem. Explore our opinionated resources about how to create playback and editing apps with Jetpack Media3.
New
Games developer center
You use a game engine for most of your game design and development. But you still need to use Android tools to finish developing, optimizing, and publishing your game. The Games developer center helps guide you through the process.
Core features
User interfaces
The guides you need to write the code for your UI—whether you're using Jetpack Compose or Views-based APIs, or migrating from Views to Compose.
Build and test
Configure your build
Use Android Studio with Gradle to automate and manage the build process.
Test
Test your app's correctness, functional behavior, and usability before releasing it publicly.
Developer stories
How developers are finding success with Android.
Google Photos builds for large screens
See how the Google Photos team increased daily active users by investing in developing responsive layouts across across tablets, foldables, and ChromeOS devices.
Monzo moves to CameraX
Monzo reduced over 9,000 lines of code and improved registration dropout by 5x with CameraX.
Evernote users spend more time on large screens
After investing in making their Android app work on ChromeOS, Evernote saw those users tripled the time they spent using the app.