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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 this release. ExoPlayer now supports HLS

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Ensure your WebViews are compatible with Android 16, as Android 16 removes the ability to opt-out of drawing your app edge-to-edge. The way you handle insets for WebViews depends on whether or not your app owns the web content. This post assumes

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Knowing that you’re building on a safe, secure ecosystem is essential for any app developer. We continuously invest in protecting Android and Google Play, so millions of users around the world can trust the apps they download and you can build

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Meet Bruce from Douglas, Isle of Man. Along with co-founder Peter, he makes games to stimulate the memory and visual areas of the brain for people with dementia. #WeArePlay celebrates the global community of people creating apps and games businesses

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In our latest # WeArePlay film, which celebrates the people behind apps and games, we meet Bruce - a co-founder of Memory Lane Games. His company turns cherished memories into simple, engaging quizzes for people with different types of dementia.

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Curious what we covered in our quarterly show for Android developers? In our winter episode, we gave you the latest from Mobile World Congress and across the Android Developer world. We unveiled a big update to Gemini in Android Studio (multi-modal

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Curious what we covered in our quarterly show for Android developers? In our winter episode, we gave you the latest from Mobile World Congress and across the Android Developer world. We unveiled a big update to Gemini in Android Studio (multi-modal

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this edition, we’ll cover the return of Google I/O, Android Studio Turning 10, the Android 16 Betas, Imagen in Firebase, the latest in

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Android 16 has officially reached Platform Stability today with Beta 3! That means the API surface is locked, the app-facing behaviors are final, and you can push your Android 16-targeted apps to the Play store right now. Read on for coverage of new

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We just dropped our Winter episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on https://developer.android.com, and this time we were in Barcelona to give you the latest from Mobile World Congress and across the Android Developer world. We unveiled a big

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover the return of Google I/O, Android Studio Turning 10, the Android 16 Betas, Imagen in Firebase, the latest in

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If you're building for Android, you're already building for XR 🧑‍🚀 The Android XR SDK Developer Preview is available, so you can begin development immediately with an emulator for testing (without needing an XR device!) Experience Android XR →

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Mobile World Congress is a big moment for Android, with partners from around the world showing off their latest devices. In this video, we take a look at a few of our favorite foldables and large screen devices being shown off at Mobile World

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It's now easier than ever to generate Compose UI code with the latest feature of Gemini in Android Studio: multimodal support for Gemini in Android Studio lets you attach images to prompts to create a working protoype of an app, directly in Android

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Android XR was built to blend digital and physical worlds together to help you dream bigger, explore deeper, and enjoy entertainment like never before. To learn more check out our demo and visit → https://goo.gle/3XJiA36 Catch #TheAndroidShow here →

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Take a deeper dive into how to develop for Android XR, using tools and frameworks you already know! To learn more, check out → https://goo.gle/4iqg5uL Catch #TheAndroidShow here → https://goo.gle/tas-mar25 Watch more videos →

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You can test a ViewModel by simply creating an instance using its constructor in your test code. However, this approach has limitations — there is no straightforward way to: With ViewModelScenario, these are now easy to test, helping you catch errors

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This is a guest post from amo Engineer, Cyril Mottier, on how they’ve leveraged Android to create magic in their Android app. At amo, we are redefining what it means to build social applications. Our mission is to create a new kind of social company,

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We're hosting a Widgets live Q&A on Thursday, March 6 at 9 AM PT. Tune in to have your widget questions answered! We will have experts on development, design, and users of Android Widgets. Ask us how you can use Jetpack Glance to build quality

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Writing a widget that takes advantage of the rich visual design available in Android can be daunting. Your widget must run on a wide variety of devices, launchers, and screen layouts. In the full video, code-along with Developer Relations Engineer

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Writing a widget that takes advantage of the rich visual design available in Android can be daunting. Your widget must run on a wide variety of devices, launchers, and screen layouts. In this video, code-along with Developer Relations Engineer

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In this episode, Tor and Romain chat with Leland and Chuck from the Compose team about performance -- recent optimizations, upcoming optimizations, and challenges. Listen to the podcast → https://goo.gle/3QKVy8k Catch videos on YouTube →

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Join us on March 13 at 10AM PT for our Winter episode of #TheAndroidShow! We’ll unpack the latest Android devices from Mobile World Congress, plus an update to Gemini in Android Studio, and we’ll be recapping Android XR. Game devs: we’ve got a big

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Join us on March 13 at 10AM PT for our Winter episode of #TheAndroidShow! We’ll unpack the latest Android devices from Mobile World Congress, plus an update to Gemini in Android Studio, and we’ll be recapping Android XR. Game devs: we’ve got a big

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SoundCloud rapidly launched a new widget in just two weeks, leveraging Jetpack Glance for streamlined development. Learn more → https://goo.gle/4bqTiMQ Socialite sample → https://goo.gle/socialite-sample Watch more Android Developer Stories →

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Experience a dynamic interface featuring wonderful widgets designed to inspire, configure to your needs, inform with crucial data, and ultimately, aim to engage you in a meaningful way. Watch more Android Spotlight Week →

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Experience a dynamic interface featuring wonderful widgets designed to inspire, configure to your needs, inform with crucial data, and ultimately, aim to engage you in a meaningful way. Learn about Glance on → https://goo.gle/3QMxT76 Build a widget

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Android developers, welcome to the world of widgets! This week's Spotlight Series dives deep into widget benefits, design, implementation and discovery. Watch more Android Spotlight Week → https://goo.gle/SpotlightWeeks #Featured #Widgets

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Have you wondered how you can make your app’s content easier for your users to engage with? Does your app have popular features that users might find helpful pinned on their homescreens for convenient access? Android developers, welcome to the world

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Compose for TV is the modern approach for building Android TV user interfaces. Compose for TV unlocks all the benefits of Android's Jetpack Compose for your TV apps, making building beautiful and functional UIs for your app much easier. Jetcaster