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Welcome back to the final part of our blog post series about harnessing the power of CameraX and Compose. In the previous posts, we’ve created a camera preview screen with tap-to-focus and spotlight effect. Now, we will take our viewfinder and expand

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This article is cross-published on Medium This release includes a host of bug fixes, performance improvements and new features. Read on to find out more, and as always please check out the full release notes for a comprehensive overview of changes in

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Android users have demonstrated an increasing desire to create, personalize, and share video content online, whether to preserve their memories or to make people laugh. As such, media editing is a cornerstone of many engaging Android apps, and

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Note: An earlier version of this post listed the changes coming to Compose as being in the \ release. This release will now be in July and we have updated this post accordingly. At Google I/O 2024, we announced the upcoming July ‘24 Jetpack Compose

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With the first Developer Preview of Android 15 now released, another new Android release that brings new features and under-the-hood improvements for billions of users worldwide will be coming shortly. As Android developers, you are key players in

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Our photo picker has always been the gateway to your local media library, providing a secure, date-sorted interface for users to grant apps access to selected images and videos. But now, we're taking it a step further by integrating cloud photos from

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Since we launched Google Cast in 2013, we've been working to bring casting capabilities to more apps and devices. We have come a long way. Now, users can cast to many new devices, like TVs, speakers, smart displays, and even the latest Pixel Tablet.

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Following its release in July of 2023, Meta’s Threads became the most rapidly downloaded app ever with over 100 million downloads in its first week. Meta created the new text-based social media platform as a place to build connections and have

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Today we're releasing Android 14 and pushing the Android 14 source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Android 14 is designed to improve your productivity as developers while enhancing performance, privacy, security, and customization for

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The upcoming stable release of Android 14 is fast approaching. Now is a great time to test your app with this new release’s changes if you haven’t done so already. With Platform Stability, you can even submit apps targeting SDK 34 to the Google Play

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At Google I/O we announced that Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold are joining our Pixel family of devices. With pre-orders ongoing, now is the time to update your applications to work great on these devices! This blog covers two topics: what makes Pixel

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The creation of user-generated content is on the rise, and users are looking for more ways to personalize and add uniqueness to their creations. These creations are then shared to a vast network of devices, each with its own capabilities. The Jetpack

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In Android 13 (API level 33), we introduced a new standardized platform architecture for spatial audio, a premium and more engaging sound experience. With spatial audio, your content sounds more realistic to users by making it sound as though they

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Today, we’re pleased to announce the full release of the Jetpack Media3 library. After sharing a first look at the library at Android Developer Summit 2021, we published several alpha and beta releases over the past several months to ensure a

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As a developer, you want to leverage camera capabilities in your app, so you decide to adopt the Android Camera Framework. The first use case you want to implement is the Preview use case, which shows the output of the camera sensor on the screen. So

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In this post, we’ll look at three ways CameraX makes developers’ lives easier when it comes to device compatibility. First, we’ll take a peek into our CameraX Test Lab where we test over 150 physical phones every day. Second, we’ll look at Quirks,

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Today we’re pushing the Android 13 source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the newest version of Android. For developers, Android 13 is focused on our core themes of privacy and security as well as developer

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Today we're launching the Jetpack Core Performance library in alpha. This library enables you to easily understand what a device is capable of, and tailor your user experience accordingly. It does this by allowing you to obtain the device’s

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Introducing Jetpack Media3 Today, we're launching the first alpha of Jetpack Media3. It's a collection of support libraries for media playback, including ExoPlayer. This article will explain why we created Media3, what it contains, and how it can