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Tutorials to help you level up your social and messaging apps.
Create an ExoPlayer instance, integrate it with an app's activity lifecycle, create a playlist, play adaptive video streams, monitor playback state, and customize ExoPlayer UI components.
How to create a camera app that uses CameraX to show a viewfinder, take photos and analyze an image stream from the camera.
How to show conversational notifications as bubbles on Android11+. components.
Build an app that can display a list of contacts in the system Intent chooser dialog so you can jump directly into the app to make the sharing process quick and easy.

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Updated May 14, 2024

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

Updated March 4, 2024

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

Updated February 13, 2024

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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