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Android Social & Messaging Apps

Use Android's unique capabilities to supercharge your app's social and messaging features. Get the latest information on browsing, playing, capturing, editing, and sharing media to make your app stand out.
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Ensure reliable message delivery, leverage messaging-focused notification and UI features, support emoji, stickers, gifs, and more.
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Capture media at the highest quality, leveraging features such as night mode and HDR. Browse local media. Edit, transform and transcode media, including custom effects, trimming, and cropping a portion of the video frame.
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Display images and play back audio and video, supporting features like HDR, live streaming, and picture-in-picture. Support playback-centered UI features and media controls across devices and accessories.
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Build modern messaging and social networking use cases

Build reliable apps that support the latest Android software and hardware features, making the most of form factors in an increasingly multidevice world.
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Enable support for emoji, stickers, attachments, and more.
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Use core messaging UX features such as badges, conversations, and bubbles. Make sure your messages get delivered reliably.
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Capture images and video, including image analysis and effects.
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Media3 provides simple, customizable, reliable, and performant Android APIs for media playback and editing.
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Put your app on the home screen with "at-a-glance" views of social and messaging data.
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Content sharing

Enable drag and drop, image keyboards, and rich cut-and-paste features.
Grow
See how to make your app more engaging and stand out among its peers, including support for premium platform and hardware features.
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Explore social media designs for tablets and foldables in the large screens gallery
Large screens gallery
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Explore messaging designs for smartwatches in the Wear OS gallery to enable reliable, helpful, and safe communication.
Wear OS gallery
Sample
See best practices in action in our sample app, with coverage of messaging, camera, and media use cases.
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