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We aim to highlight practical applications, discuss measurable productivity improvements and candidly address the challenges engineering teams face when integrating AI at scale.\n\nModerated by Ben Trengrove, Google Developer Relations Engineer", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Luis Artola" }, { "name": "Ty Smith" }, { "name": "Vinay Gaba" }, { "name": "Kaushik Gopal" }, { "name": "Annyce Davis" }, { "name": "Ben Trengrove" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_010", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/agentic-engineering-with-claude-code-and-android-cli", "title": "Agentic engineering with Claude Code and Android CLI", "content_text": "Stop copy-pasting into AI chat windows and start delegating to your agent. This practical, example-driven session shows you how to level up your agentic engineering using Claude Code and the Android CLI. We will walk through a complete workflow to automate complex development tasks and ship features faster.\nYou will learn to:\n- Optimize the token efficiency of your harness using Android CLI, Skills, Hooks and MCP.\n- Offload and parallelize long-running tasks to subagents.\n- Set up continuous verification loops that stop early termination and run until tests pass.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Steven Jenkins" }, { "name": "Ben Trengrove" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_041", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/android-developer-verification-paths-for-play-third-party-app-distributors-and-hobbyists", "title": "Android developer verification: Paths for Play, third party app distributors, and hobbyists", "content_text": "Android Developer Verification is crucial for a safer ecosystem. This session breaks down the compliance pathways for all developers, from large studios to hobbyists. We will outline the key requirements for publishing on Google Play and third-party app stores. The talk will feature a live demo of the new Limited Distribution accounts, showing how students and hobbyists can easily and safely share apps.\n\nBy the end of this session, you will be able to:\n\nUnderstand the 3 main developer verification paths.\nSee the new Limited Distribution account flow live.\nIdentify your specific next steps for compliance.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Rob Clifford" }, { "name": "Naheed Vora" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_042", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/app-security-in-the-agentic-era", "title": "App security in the agentic era", "content_text": "This presentation explores the strategic shift from viewing AI as a generic coding assistant to leveraging it as a context-aware, automated security peer reviewer integrated directly into the Android development lifecycle. We discuss how specialized AI agents, connected to the Android toolchain via skills, can help improve app security. By bridging the gap between raw LLM capabilities and deep project context, this approach empowers development teams to maintain high-velocity feature delivery without compromising rigorous security and policy standards.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Kristen O'Leary" }, { "name": "Sabs" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_037", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/architecting-spatial-content-on-android-xr-with-unity", "title": "Architecting Spatial Content on Android XR with Unity", "content_text": "Discover how to anchor and persist 3D experiences in the real world using Unity and Android XR. This session covers the Spatial Entities framework, Cloud Anchors, and Geospatial APIs, demonstrating how to build context-aware apps that remember physical placements and sync multi-user spatial data across sessions.\n\nWe will examine the architecture behind spatial entities, understand how to anchor digital assets to physical objects, surfaces, and geographic locations. 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We'll explore how to implement out-of-the-box deep link matching APIs, write custom serializers for complex type-safe arguments, and construct dynamic hierarchical back stacks that keep user navigation predictable.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Clara Fok" }, { "name": "Ian Lake" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_013", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/declarative-agent-ready-android-builds-with-lightbuild", "title": "Declarative, agent-ready Android builds with Lightbuild", "content_text": "As Android apps grow and AI coding assistants become essential, using executable code to configure your build can create bottlenecks with slow sync times, fragile logic, and added complexity.\n\nEnter Lightbuild: Google's declarative, config-driven interface to the build engine, designed for modern Android development.\n\nIn this session, we'll explore Lightbuild's new approach to managing builds and how to use it to build a demo app. Learn how decoupling build config from execution delivers faster project opens with lightning-fast sync in Android Studio, while offering a predictable schema for safer, more reliable AI editing. 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While passkeys establish secure one tap logins, switching devices remains one of the largest drop off points in user engagement. 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We will also look at our CameraX skill, which allows the coding agent of your choice to automatically implement the concepts in this talk, and more!", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Aman Choudhary" }, { "name": "Scott Nien" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_105", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/enabling-seamless-cross-device-interactions", "title": "Enabling seamless cross-device interactions", "content_text": "As users move between phones, wearables, and audio peripherals, delivering fluid cross-device experiences has become essential for engagement. However, relying on standard networking approaches often leads to battery drain, latency spikes, and fragmented user sessions.\n\nThis deep dive introduces specialized Android APIs built for multi-device communication, offering memory- and power-efficient patterns to keep transitions between devices instant, reliable, and intuitive.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Yacine Rezgui" }, { "name": "Hanrui Gao" }, { "name": "Nataraj K R" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_104", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/evolving-tiles-to-wear-widgets-using-jetpack-glance-and-remote-compose", "title": "Evolving Tiles to Wear Widgets using Jetpack Glance and Remote Compose", "content_text": "In this session, we will take a technical deep dive into the evolution from full-screen Tiles to dynamic, partial-height Wear Widgets.\n\nWe will explore the technical benefits of the unified Jetpack Glance API and the new Remote Compose engine, detailing how they seamlessly align with Modern Android Development.\n\nFinally, we will share the latest UX guidance and walk through practical migration strategies to help you build the next generation of glanceable UI.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "François Deschênes" }, { "name": "Yuri Schimke" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_002", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/extend-your-app-to-gemini-and-search-with-the-connected-apps-platform", "title": "Extend your app to Gemini and Search with the Connected Apps Platform", "content_text": "The new Connected Apps Platform lets you integrate your app's services directly into Gemini, AI Mode in Search, and the Android intelligence system. This session provides a practical guide to getting started. Using code examples and learning from real-life case studies, we’ll walk through the development lifecycle: building, testing, and publishing your first connected app to reach users within their AI-powered workflows.\n\nBy the end of this session, you'll be able to:\n\n* Integrate your service with the Connected Apps Platform.\n* Test your integration across different AI surfaces.\n* Publish your app’s features into users' AI workflows.", "tags": [ "Intelligent Apps" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Kateryna Semenova" }, { "name": "Mai Lowe" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_007", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/inside-gemini-nano-and-gemma-4-powering-on-device-intelligence", "title": "Inside Gemini Nano and Gemma 4 powering on-device intelligence", "content_text": "Gemma 4 brings capable, multimodal AI directly to Android devices. 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You'll learn how Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) preserves model capability within 1.1–3.5 GB RAM footprints, while Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) accelerates decoding speeds 1.5x–3x for responsive, real-time experiences.", "tags": [ "Intelligent Apps" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Sara Smoot" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_024", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/inside-the-first-wave-on-googlebook-with-notability-and-logitech", "title": "Inside the first wave on Googlebook with Notability and Logitech", "content_text": "The launch of Googlebook opens up a new frontier for high-fidelity, desktop-grade experiences. In this session, we go behind the scenes with two pioneering partners who built for this platform from the ground up.\n\nNotability will share their journey creating a desktop-class Android app using Jetpack Compose. Learn about their journey moving from other app platforms with desktop top-of-mind. 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We'll survey key integration paths - including on-device Android MCP, server-side MCP, and Task Automation - and provide a decision framework for choosing the right path for your use case. We'll also explore proactive experiences with Personal Context.\n\nYou will learn how to:\n- Select the optimal integration path for your app's needs.\n- Implement both reactive and proactive intelligence features.\n- Balance performance and security in agentic integrations.", "tags": [ "Intelligent Apps" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Sarah Shamsie" }, { "name": "Dan Galpin" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_109", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/lessons-from-whatsapps-wear-os-journey", "title": "Lessons from WhatsApp's Wear OS journey", "content_text": "Hear directly from WhatsApp engineers on how they upgraded their Wear OS app at scale. This session covers the architectural and UX decisions behind integrating Material 3 and adopting Wear Widgets.\n\nGain direct insight into the lessons, patterns and tools the team used to update their app and deliver a cohesive user experience.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Martin Pelant" }, { "name": "Subhag Bhatia" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_103", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/let-agents-generate-ui-in-your-android-apps-with-a2ui", "title": "Let agents generate UI in your Android apps with A2UI", "content_text": "A2UI is transitioning from web-centric components to native Android. The new Jetpack Compose renderer for A2UI v0.9 enables developers to render dynamic, LLM-generated UI natively. 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We’ll dive deep into how both implementation paths unite under the hood to utilize the modern LiteRT runtime, giving your app seamless, hardware-accelerated performance on CPU and GPUs with a virtually zero-byte download footprint.\n\nKey takeaways for developers:\n-Uncompromised performance: Both turnkey and custom models are hardware-accelerated automatically using the unified CompiledModel API.\n-Micro-APKs: Dramatically reduce your app’s download size by offloading both the ML Kit and LiteRT runtimes to Play services.\n-Hybrid integration: Master running multiple ML workflows side-by-side in production without resource conflicts.", "tags": [ "Intelligent Apps" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Chintan Parikh" }, { "name": "Fergus Henderson" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_016", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/memory-troubleshooting-with-firebase-crashlytics", "title": "Memory troubleshooting with Firebase Crashlytics", "content_text": "Keep your app's memory footprint lean-and-mean and non-segfaulty with Firebase Crashlytics. This session explores our comprehensive suite of memory troubleshooting tools available in the Firebase console and in Android Studio. We’ll start by covering how to leverage ANR insights and GWP-ASan reports to diagnose elusive memory bugs and then dive into our latest tooling for Out-Of-Memory (OOM) and Memory Limiter Kill (MLK) events, designed specifically to help you navigate and adapt to the new memory limits introduced in Android 17.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Polina Govorkova" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_019", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/migrating-two-decades-of-the-google-play-app-to-jetpack-compose", "title": "Migrating two decades of the Google Play app to Jetpack Compose", "content_text": "This year, Android officially became Compose-first for building all UI, placing legacy Views into maintenance mode. For Google Play, that journey began back in 2020. 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We will walk through the core workflow, from defining vertex layouts to rendering dynamic objects seamlessly within the user's physical space.\n\nBy the end of this talk, you will have the practical skills to build interactive, custom 3D geometry completely from code.", "tags": [ "Android XR" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Egor Yusov" }, { "name": "Jay Abi-Saad" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_017", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/navigating-multi-device-quality-publishing-beyond-mobile-on-google-play", "title": "Navigating multi-device quality & publishing beyond mobile on Google Play", "content_text": "As the Android ecosystem expands across wrists, living rooms, vehicles, and XR, the opportunity to reach users on new screens is growing. However, distributing across Wear OS, Android TV, Android Auto, Android Automotive OS, or Android XR introduces distinct considerations for testing, store listings, and app reviews.\nThis session explores how to effectively utilize Google Play Console for non-mobile form factors to help streamline a predictable multi-device launch. We will cover key distribution decisions, including how to structure track strategies and package names, configure targeted testing tracks, and tailor store listings. You'll get a practical walkthrough of form-factor App Quality guidelines to help avoid common review pitfalls and publish on Google Play with greater confidence.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Jan Kleinert" }, { "name": "Faustine Liao" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_004", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/on-device-intelligence-optimized-performance-and-quality-using-android-ml-kit-apis", "title": "On-device intelligence: Optimized performance and quality using Android ML Kit APIs", "content_text": "In this session, we'll explore different GenAI use cases using ML Kit APIs to understand when on-device GenAI is ideal for an app and also understand how to evaluate existing GenAI use cases to see if on-device models can satisfy their quality bar.", "tags": [ "Intelligent Apps" ], "authors": [ { "name": "David Chou" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_029", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/optimize-media-playback-and-maximize-reach-with-jetpack-media3-apis", "title": "Optimize media playback and maximize reach with Jetpack Media3 APIs", "content_text": "Media consumption accounts for a large portion of user time spent on mobile devices, which requires the playback experience to be flawless, highly efficient and mindful of battery life. Furthermore, users expect these experiences to seamlessly transition across their devices, from phones to living room TVs and beyond.\n\nExplore how architectural updates in Media3 and ExoPlayer power seamless playback across form factors. The discussion centers on crafting responsive interfaces with the Media3 Compose UI toolkit, eliminating buffering in feeds using the new PreloadManager and extending your app to living room screens and Android XR with CastPlayer and spatial audio.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Donovan McMurray" }, { "name": "Toni Heidenreich" }, { "name": "Kristina Simakova" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_101", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/outperform-yourself-in-compose", "title": "Outperform yourself in Compose", "content_text": "Jetpack Compose makes it easy to design high-quality user interfaces, but it can be difficult to track down issues that affect UI performance. These kinds of issues can lead to problems that your users notice, like startup latency, and dropped frames that appear as scroll jank or choppy animations.\n\nIn this talk, we’ll introduce tools to uncover what’s impacting your UI’s performance, focusing on Perfetto and (re-)composition tracing. We’ll then explore specific anti-patterns you may be using that are secretly costing you, how you can find them in your code, and what positive patterns you can replace them with. By the end of this talk, you’ll understand how to think in Compose with a performance mindset, and how to profile, analyze, and verify performance optimizations in your app.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Andrei Shikov" }, { "name": "Andrew Bailey" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_022", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/powering-interactive-surfaces-with-remote-compose", "title": "Powering interactive surfaces with Remote Compose", "content_text": "Remote Compose introduces a new way to project expressive and interactive UI onto remote surfaces like widgets. By serializing layouts into compact binary payloads, RemoteCompose decouples UI from host execution to deliver significant advantages.\n\nKey benefits include edge interactivity that enables high-performance rendering through local execution on the remote device, fluid scaling that allows UIs to reflow across diverse form factors via remote-side component evaluations, and a unified developer workflow that removes the need for platform-specific remote UI frameworks through familiar Jetpack Compose APIs.\n\nThis session unpacks these benefits and provides live production examples, including modern Wear OS Widgets and the glanceable Wear Workout Tracker experience in Runkeeper.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Nicolas Roard" }, { "name": "John Hoford" }, { "name": "John Zoeller" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_023", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/scale-your-app-for-every-screen-with-compose", "title": "Scale your app for every screen with Compose", "content_text": "The Android ecosystem is vast, with users shifting seamlessly across phones, tablets, foldables, and desktop environments. Now that we are Compose First, this session explores how to architect your app for resizable windows and diverse aspect ratios—where traditional layout assumptions break down, leading to stretched UIs and lost state.\n\nExplore how the latest capabilities in Jetpack Compose, Navigation 3, and WindowManager can help you build dynamic layouts that naturally scale from compact screens to dual-pane displays. Walk away with strategies to accelerate your development workflow using Gemini and our skills, like the adaptive skill, to automatically refactor legacy codebases for larger screens.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Francesco Romano" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_025", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/scaling-input-interactions-beyond-the-touchscreen-with-jetpack-compose", "title": "Scaling input interactions beyond the touchscreen with Jetpack Compose", "content_text": "As new form factors move beyond the touchscreen, Compose's input system has evolved to meet the challenge. Its layered architecture provides the foundation for supporting everything from advanced trackpad gestures to novel hardware inputs seamlessly.\n\nThrough clear architectural breakdowns and hands-on code examples, follow the lifecycle of an input event all the way from the OS platform layer up to Compose gesture detectors and UI components. You will discover how to trace events across the entire stack, apply key architectural patterns for emerging input types, and confidently debug complex gesture interactions in your own apps.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Alex Vanyo" }, { "name": "Jeremy Walker" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_026", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/take-compose-state-beyond-the-ui-with-jetpack-appstate", "title": "Take Compose state beyond the UI with Jetpack AppState", "content_text": "Compose’s snapshot runtime, automatic dependency tracking, and atomic updates don’t have to stop at the UI layer. Jetpack AppState lets you move Compose state upstream—streamlining what reaches your screens by hoisting and deriving state with the snapshot system before it ever hits the UI.\n\nIn this session, you’ll learn about AppState’s two foundational libraries. We’ll dive into StateStore for hoisting state, and Transform for using composition to derive state with plain Kotlin control flow—eliminating complex Flow combine chains and keeping your UI effortlessly in sync.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Ben Sagmoe" }, { "name": "Elif Bilgin Morris" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_027", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/the-car-is-your-canvas-unlocking-android-development-for-the-road", "title": "The car is your canvas: Unlocking Android development for the road", "content_text": "As in-car displays expand across Android Auto and Android Automotive OS vehicles, developers face a unique dual challenge: delivering rich, adaptive experiences while parked, and driver-safe, template-driven experiences while driving. In this comprehensive 30-minute technical session, we explore the end-to-end architecture and development approaches to adapting Android apps to cars.\n\nFrom the fundamentals of designing apps for use in cars, to the newest approaches for building media experiences that shift from audio to video as the car shifts from drive to park, you'll leave with everything you need to know to get your app on the road.", "tags": [ "Apps foundation" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Paul Lammertsma" }, { "name": "Thomas Weathers" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_014", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/trace-me-if-you-can-automated-instrumentation-and-field-profiling", "title": "Trace me if you can: Automated instrumentation and field profiling", "content_text": "Optimizing Android apps requires deep visibility into concurrent workflows and coroutine suspensions.\nWhile local profiling offers a useful snapshot, scaling these insights to production without overhead remains a challenge.\n\nThis session delivers an architectural blueprint for a continuous performance feedback loop.\n\nandroidx.tracing 2.0: Swap backends dynamically and propagate coroutine contexts (Perfetto flows) across threads.\n\nSmart Instrumentation: Use local ART tracing to find hotspots, then automate the injection of low-overhead trace points.\n\nMacrobenchmarking: Track regressions and verify performance gains on physical devices in CI.\n\nField Tracing: Go beyond local and CI tracing, with ProfilingManager.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Rahul Ravikumar" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_015", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/type-safe-keep-rules-and-dex-optimization", "title": "Type safe keep rules and DEX optimization", "content_text": "Android apps often ship under-optimized due to overly conservative keep rules often from third-party libraries, leading to bloated APKs, slower cold starts, and degraded runtime performance.\n\nWith Google Play’s new performance thresholds for DEX optimization, app visibility now directly depends on staying ahead of the optimization curve.\n\nThis talk introduces a modern R8 workflow to tackle rule bloat. You will learn to:\n\n- Use the R8 config analyzer and skill to identify legacy rule overhead.\n- Transition from broad wildcard keep rules to precise, type-safe, generated annotations.\n- Prevent optimization regressions with new Android CLI tools.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Chris Craik" }, { "name": "Breana Tate" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_003", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/unlock-agentic-capabilities-in-your-app-with-ml-kit-genai", "title": "Unlock agentic capabilities in your app with ML Kit GenAI", "content_text": "Take your Android AI features to the next level by building autonomous on-device agents. In this session, we dive into ML Kit’s new agentic APIs, built directly on top of the direct model access APIs you already know.\n\nUsing the open-source Jetpacker app, you’ll learn how to chain multi-step actions across local data, manage stateful multi-turn sessions with isolated contexts, and wire up Android MCP to power both in-app assistants and Android system-level surfaces with a single codebase.", "tags": [ "Intelligent Apps" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Jolanda Verhoef" }, { "name": "Victoria Lestari" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_009", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/whats-new-in-android-dev-tools", "title": "What's new in Android dev tools", "content_text": "Discover what’s next for Android development across Android Studio and the terminal with Android CLI. In this session, we unveil the latest in Android Studio Canary and Stable—from AI-assisted code migrations to Compose and Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support, to Lightbuild’s declarative architecture. We’ll also dive into the latest updates to the Android CLI toolchain. Learn how you can use it to automate your inner-loop workflows with improved access to devices, diagnostics tools for local and production issues, profiling workflows that let your agents test and validate optimizations and much more.", "tags": [ "Tools & Performance" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Esteban de la Canal" }, { "name": "Adarsh Fernando" } ] }, { "id": "ADS26_034", "url": "https://developer.android.com/events/dev-summit/talks/xr-is-for-everyone-designing-accessible-spatial-experiences", "title": "XR is for everyone: Designing accessible spatial experiences", "content_text": "When we say XR is for everyone, that principle has to guide how we build from day one. In this introductory guide for developers new to XR, Jazmin Cano shares the foundational accessibility principles honed at Owlchemy Labs. Engine-agnostic and universally applicable to both games and apps, this session explores how early consideration of motor, visual, auditory, and cognitive needs leads to better experiences for all users. Discover how to build an inclusive development culture, conduct meaningful testing, and design spatial interactions that remove barriers without sacrificing quality.", "tags": [ "Android XR" ], "authors": [ { "name": "Jazmin Cano" } ] } ] }