Developer Center
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.
Develop
Communication and messaging
Ensure reliable message delivery, leverage messaging-focused notification and UI features, support emoji, stickers, gifs, and more.
Develop
Media capture and creation
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.
Develop
Media display and playback
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.
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.
Guide
Messaging
Use core messaging UX features such as badges, conversations, and bubbles. Make sure your messages get delivered reliably.
Guide
Media playback and editing
Media3 provides simple, customizable, reliable, and performant Android APIs for media playback and editing.
Grow
Take your app from basic to better to best
See how to make your app more engaging and stand out among its peers, including support for premium platform and hardware features.
Grow
Bring your social experience to large screens
Explore social media designs for tablets and foldables in the large screens gallery
Sample
Review a social sample
See best practices in action in our sample app, with coverage of messaging, camera, and media use cases.
