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Android Mobile Vision restores operation and adds Text API
Posted by Michael Sipe, Product Manager As an important framework for finding objects in photos and video, Mobile Vision operation for Android devices is restored in Google Play Services v9.2. This new...
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Support for Google Apps Lookup on Android 2.3 and below ending on September...
Today, we’re announcing that as of September 26, 2016, we will discontinue support for Google Apps Lookup.Google Apps Lookup was used for viewing the Global Directory on devices using Android 2.1...
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Android changes for NDK developers
Posted by Dmitry Malykhanov, Developer Advocate Related to other improvements to the Android platform, the dynamic linker in Android M and N has stricter requirements for writing clean, cross-platform...
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New video tips to help news publishers find success on Google Play
Posted by Tamzin Taylor - Strategic Partner Lead, Google Play Today we have released a three-part video series ‘Tips for your news app on Google Play’, where you can find actionable tips and learn best...
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Kick off your summer travels with these new Google Maps features
The weather’s heating up, kids are out of school, and that means only one thing: summer’s officially here. Summer brings weekend road trips, faraway escapes and all kinds of getaways in between. And...
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Building for Billions
Posted by Sam Dutton, Ankur Kotwal, Developer Advocates; Liz Yepsen, Program Manager ‘TOP-UP WARNING.’ ‘NO CONNECTION.’ ‘INSUFFICIENT BANDWIDTH TO PLAY THIS RESOURCE.’ These are common warnings for...
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Building for Billions
Originally posted on Android Developers blog Posted by Sam Dutton, Ankur Kotwal, Developer Advocates; Liz Yepsen, Program Manager ‘TOP-UP WARNING.’ ‘NO CONNECTION.’ ‘INSUFFICIENT BANDWIDTH TO PLAY THIS...
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Mobile Ads Garage: Episode 6 – AdMob with Firebase
Episode six of The Mobile Ads Garage is live on YouTube! If you haven't seen it before, The Mobile Ads Garage is a video tutorial series that covers how to use the Mobile Ads SDK to display ads from...
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Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat
Posted by Chad Brubaker, Android Security team In Android Nougat (7.0), we’ve changed how Android handles trusted certificate authorities (CAs) to provide safer defaults for secure app traffic. Most...
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Stay connected abroad with high speed data from Project Fi
When you’re traveling abroad, your phone is an essential tool – for finding a great restaurant, posting pics of your trip online, or translating a sign. But the data we have access to when traveling...
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Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2
Posted by Hoi Lam, Android Wear Developer Advocate At Google I/O 2016, we launched the Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview, which gives developers early access to the next major release of Android...
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Announcing the Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco, Sept. 24
Posted by Jamil Moledina, Google Play, Games Strategic Lead If you’re an indie game developer, you know that games are a powerful medium of expression of art, whimsy, and delight. Being on Google Play...
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Final Developer Preview before Android 7.0 Nougat begins rolling out
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering As we close in on the public rollout of Android 7.0 Nougat to devices later this summer, today we’re releasing Developer Preview 5, the last milestone of this...
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Delegated admins can now use the Google Admin app on Android devices
Google recognizes that delegated admins have highly important responsibilities at many organizations, from creating users to managing Google Groups to turning services on and off. And we understand...
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Strictly Enforced Verified Boot with Error Correction
Posted by Sami Tolvanen, Software Engineer Overview Android uses multiple layers of protection to keep users safe. One of these layers is verified boot, which improves security by using cryptographic...
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Android Developer Story: StoryToys finds success in the ‘Family’ section on...
Posted by Lily Sheringham, Google Play team Based in Dublin, Ireland, StoryToys is a leading publisher of interactive books and games for children. Like most kids’ app developers, they faced the...
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Connecting your App to a Wi-Fi Device
Posted by Rich Hyndman, Android Developer Advocate With the growth of the Internet of Things, connecting Android applications to Wi-Fi enabled devices is becoming more and more common. Whether you’re...
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Mobile Ads Garage: Episode 7 – Native Ads Express
Episode seven of The Mobile Ads Garage is live on YouTube! If you haven't seen it before, The Mobile Ads Garage is a video tutorial series that covers how to use the Mobile Ads SDK to display ads from...
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Google Play Books introduces Bubble Zoom
Whether it’s reading up on the origins of Justice League or enjoying a reboot like Invincible Iron Man, we all love our heroes and villains and there’s nothing more thrilling than flipping through your...
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Improvements for smaller app downloads on Google Play
Posted by Anthony Morris, SWE Google Play Google Play continues to grow rapidly, as Android users installed over 65 billion apps in the last year from the Google Play Store. We’re also seeing...
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